Online Course Support | Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity

Consider two identical light clocks, designed as explained in lecture. You put one on a remote-controlled rocket and keep one beside you. You steer the rocket so it flies by you at a very high constant speed. When you compare a segment of elapsed time on the moving clock to the elapsed time on the one next to you, what is the relationship between them? (γ represents the Lorentz factor.)

 

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