5. Question 5 True or false: Other physicists around 1905, besides Einstein, were playing around with the idea that time, in some sense, might not be absolute. 1 point …
1. Question 1 Who was the friend that helped Einstein toward his flash of insight that led to the June 1905 paper? 1 point Hendrik Lorentz James Clerk Maxwell…
12. Question 12 When Einstein’s principle of light constancy is combined with the principle of relativity, what is a key result? 1 point That the wavelength of a light…
9. Question 9 What was Einstein’s conclusion regarding the ether? 1 point The ether is an important foundational concept for the special theory of relativity. The principle of light…
5. Question 5 How does the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis relate to the ether wind? 1 point That the ether wind exists, but Michelson and Morley did not observe it…
2. Question 2 In his June 1905 paper, Einstein cites the example of a bar magnet and a coil of wire moving with respect to each other. What is the…
11. Question 11 In the example done with the airplane in the video lecture, how did the time taken for the round trip with a head wind going and tail…
10. Question 10 Consider a medium in which a wave is traveling (such as a wave in water). An outside observer measures the speed of the wave traveling through the…
8. Question 8 When two waves are “in phase” with each other, it means that: 1 point Their peaks match up, and their troughs match up. One wave has…
7. Question 7 Is stellar aberration evidence for or against the hypothesis that Earth or its atmosphere somehow drags the ether along with it as the Earth travels through space?…
