6. Question 6 In the actual Michelson-Morley experiment, what technique did they use to see if there was a difference in the round trip times between the two light beams?…
12. Question 12 What was Einstein’s “principle of light constancy”? 1 point That the speed of light from a light source moving toward an observer is greater than 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 True or false: When a wave source (something that generates waves) is moving through the medium of the waves (such as a paddle device moving through water),…
4. Question 4 The period of a traveling wave is: 1 point A measure of how high the wave peaks are. The time it takes for one complete cycle…
3. Question 3 What was Einstein’s second postulate (the principle of relativity being the first)? 1 point The principle of the luminiferous ether The principle of Galileo The principle…
2. Question 2 What bothered Einstein about how physicists explained the result involving a moving magnet and a coil of wire (as he described in his June 1905 paper)? 1…
1. Question 1 What is a key difference between kinematics and dynamics? 1 point Dynamics focuses on describing the motion of things, while kinematics focuses on the forces underlying and…
4. Question 4 Which world line represents an object that is moving with a varying velocity along the x axis? 1 point
10. Question 10 Of the world lines shown below, which represents an object moving with the highest velocity? 1 point
