6.8: Problems
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- An object moves as described in figure 6.8, which shows its position x as a function of time t.
- Is the velocity positive, negative, or zero at each of the points A, B, C, D, E, and F?
- Is the acceleration positive, negative, or zero at each of the points A, B, C, D, E, and F? Figure 6.8: Position of an object as a function of time.
- An object is moving counterclockwise at constant speed around the circle shown in figure 6.9 due to the fact that it is attached by a string to the center of the circle at point O.
- Sketch the object’s velocity vectors at points A, B, and C.
- Sketch the object’s acceleration vectors at points A, B, and C.
- If the string breaks at point A, sketch the subsequent trajectory followed by the object. Figure 6.9: Object in circular motion.
- How fast are you going after accelerating from rest with intrinsic acceleration \(a=10 m s^{-2}\) after the given times measured in the rest frame:
- 10 y?
- 100000 y? Express your answer as the speed of light minus your actual speed. Hint: You may have a numerical problem on the second part, which you should try to resolve using the approximation \((1+\epsilon)^{\mathrm{X}} \approx 1+\mathrm{x} \epsilon\), which is valid for \(|\epsilon| \ll 1\).
- An object’s world line is defined by \(x(t)=\left(d^{2}+c^{2} t^{2}\right)^{1 / 2}\) where d is a constant and c is the speed of light.
- Find the object’s velocity as a function of time.
- Using the above result, find the slope of the tangent to the world line as a function of time.
- Find where the line of simultaneity corresponding to each tangent world line crosses the x axis.
- A car accelerates in the positive x direction at 3 m s-2.
- What is the net force on a 100 kg man in the car as viewed from an inertial reference frame?
- What is the inertial force experienced by this man in the reference frame of the car?
- What is the net force experienced by the man in the car’s (accelerated) reference frame?
- A person is sitting in a comfortable chair in her home in Bogotá, Colombia, which is essentially on the equator.
- What would the rotational period of the earth have to be to make this person weightless?
- What is her acceleration according to the equivalence principle in the earth frame in this situation?
- At time t = 0 a Zork (a creature from the planet Zorkheim) accelerating to the right at a = 103 m s-2 in a spaceship accidently drops its stopwatch from the spaceship just when its velocity is zero.
- Describe qualitatively how the hands of the watch appear to move to the Zork as it observes the watch through a powerful telescope.
- After a very long time what does the watch read? Hint: Draw a spacetime diagram with the world lines of the spaceship and the watch. Then send light rays from the watch to the spaceship.
- Using a spacetime diagram, show why signals from events on the hidden side of the event horizon from an accelerating spaceship cannot reach the spaceship.
- Approximate equation (6.26) to first order in X′ for the case in which \(X^{\prime} \ll L\).
- Imagine two identical clocks, one on top of the volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador (6300 m above sea level), the other in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil (at sea level).
- From the perspective of Chimborazo, does the clock in Guayaquil appear to be running faster or slower than the Chimborazo clock? Explain.
- Compute the fractional frequency difference \(\left(\omega-\omega^{\prime}\right) / \omega\) in this case, where ω is the freqency of the Guayaquil clock as observed in Guayaquil (and the frequency of the Chimborazo clock on Chimborazo) and \(\omega^{\prime}\) is the frequency of the Guayaquil clock as observed from Chimborazo. You may wish to use the results of the previous problem.