Tensors and Relativity: Assignment 5
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- (1) The first thing you should do is draw a spacetime diagram. Since light rays have speed c, we have
and
For low velocities of the rocket, you can use the Newtonian equations of motion to substitute for
and
. Finally expand and neglect terms of order
and
.
- The rest of the assignment is just applying the results in section 6.4 of the lecture notes.