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Special Relativity, General Relativity, Interstellar #2 Flashcards

1
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  1. All laws of physics for physics have the same functional form in any inertial reference frame
  2. Speed of light (in a vacuum) is same in any inertial reference frame
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1905-Postulates

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A very rareified and highly elastic substance formerly believed to permeate all space..

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Aether

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The greek symbol __ is the speed of a reference frame, expressed as the fraction of the speed of light

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Beta

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The fact that the farther away an object is from us in the universe, the greater the redshift is one of the clues that led to the __ idea.

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Big Bang

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A region of space where the gravitational field is so strong that nothing can have enough kinetic energy to escape

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Blackhole

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Short for membrane. In the 5-D bulk, it’s the 4-D spacetime..

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Brane

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A gravitational distortion from two coalesing neutron stars produces a rapidly increasing frequency response known as a __.

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Chirp

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Particles ejected out of the sun and generated in the Milky Way galaxy

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Cosmic Rays

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9
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In spite of the popular press given to __, Special Relativity was actually developed by many people.

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Einstein

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A quantity which describes the strength of the electromagnetic force. The more you got, the bigger the force

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Electric Charge

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A series of experiments beginning in about 1889 which show the inertial mass are intimately related to better than 1 part in 10^12

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EOTVOS

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The classical transformations between reference frames

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Galilean

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The greek symbol __ is perhaps best thought of as a distortion factor.

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Gamma

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Abbreviation for General Relativity used in conversation.

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GR

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15
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The more common phrase for gravitational charge

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Gravitational Mass

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Disturbances in the curvature of spacetime, generated be accelereated masses, that propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light.

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Gravitational Waves

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The propotionality constant between the net force and acceleration, usually mentioned as F=ma and referred to as ‘inertial mass’

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Inertia

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A value which does not change between between reference frames

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Invariant

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Person known for a simplified explanation of how spacetime and matter are intertwined.

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John-Wheeler

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It is thought R.W. Wood, a scientist at __, successfully used the Doppler effect to trick his way out of a ticket for running a red light.

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Johns Hopkins

21
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The phenomenon that a moving object’s length is measured to be shorter than its proper length

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Length Contraction

22
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An effect included in images generated for the movie to give a realisteic photographic effect.

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Lens flair

23
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Laser Interferonmetry Gravitational-Wave Observatory

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LIGO

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The name of the Special Relativity transformations between reference frames. Also the name of a prominant mathematician.

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Lorentz

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These transformation equations convert between {u_x’, u_y’, u_z’, 1} coordinates and {u_x, u_y, u_z, 1} coordinates in different inertial reference frames

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Lorentz Velocity

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A word popular during the years 1850-1920 which means ‘producing or transmitting light’

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Luminiferous

27
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A spread-out __ of gravitational wave observatories in the US, Europe, and India…

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Network

28
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Examples of __ refence frames include:

  • Rockets during an acceleration phase
  • The rotating Earth
  • Accelerating spaceships
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Non-inertial

29
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One possible name for the 5th dimension coordinate. It is often discuessed similar to a spatial-like dimension

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Out-back

30
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It is not clear if wormholes actually can exist. Calculations indicate if one is created, the walls will attract each other and __.

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Pinch-off

31
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Minkowski and Einstein tried to solve the crises of the late 1800s using the __ used in most textbooks today

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Popular Treatment

32
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An idea stated without proof

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Postulate

33
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The effect of an EM wave’s frequency getting smaller and the wavelength longer as the source of light moves away from the observer

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Redshift

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The change in frequency of light, caused by the realative motion of the source and the observer, when taking into account effects described by the special theory of relativity

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Relativistic Doppler Shift

35
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Comparing the values for measurements made in different coordinate systems

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Relativity

36
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Two events occuring at the same instant in time.

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Simultaneous

37
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The subfield of weather that deals with the EM fields of the sun and planets and describes the radiation dose received by pilots and astronauts and the impact of cosmic rays upon satellites and communications

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Space Weather

38
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Another name for the collection of {x,y,z,t}

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Spacetime

39
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The jump to light speed in __ is incorrectly represented.

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Star-Wars

40
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A construction used to represent {x,y,z,outback} with time illustrated differently

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Tesseract

41
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GPS system. Due to the combined effects of Special and General Relativity, the GPS satellite clocks appear to run __ microsec/day faster

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Thirty-five

42
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The apparent rise and fall of water levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun

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Tidal Waves

43
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Nearly all of the explanations of the __ fudge the answer by ignoring that the spaceships must accelerate and therefore Special Relativity doesn’t strickly apply

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Twin Paradox

44
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A speculative structure linking disparate poitns in spacetime

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Wormhole

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