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A postulate is something that is accepted as true at the beginning of a logical argument.
True
False
There are two clocks one is stationary on the earth the other is traveling close to the speed of light around the earth. If we put the clocks back together after the second clock makes it back from its trip, the times are compared. What do you expect to occur?
More time elapsed on the stationary clock
More time elapsed on the traveling clock
No time has changed between them
Based on the concepts of Special Relativity time travel is...
not possible
possible only in the ability to travel into the past.
possible only in the ability to travel to the future.
possible to travel either forward or backward in time.
We are able to see into the past.
True
False
The muon detection experiment helped confirm one aspect of special relativity, namely that:
to a muon distance was contracted.
muons are created in the upper atmosphere.
muons are relatively short-lived.
fewer muons reach the ground than expected.
The two postulates of special relativity are:
The laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference.
The laws of physics are the same in all non-inertial frames of reference.
The speed of light in a vacuum is c in all inertial frames of reference.
The speed of light in a vacuum is c unless in an inertial frame of reference.
A factor that can be used to calculate changes in time, mass and length as objects move to close to relativistic speeds.
Morely factor
Michelson Factor
Lorentz Factor
Einstein Factor
Einstein reasoned that space and time are TWO parts of one whole called …………
space-time
universe-time
lunch-time
Einstein’s special theory of relativity also explains how ……….. and energy are related
material
speed
mass
The stretching of time is called ………
time-speed
time contraction
time dilation
The observable shortening of objects moving at speeds approaching the speed of light is …
height contraction
length contraction
width contraction
The place from which motion is observed and measured is called
a starting point
an initial location
a frame of reference
How fast would a light beam appear to Einstein if he were traveling in the same direction at 90% of the speed of light?
1.10c
c
.1c
0
When you run along the hall from one classroom to another you're moving through
time
space
both of these
none of these
An observer moving with a light clock in a spaceship sees a light flash bouncing up and down between two mirrors in 1 nanosecond. An observer at rest outside the spaceship sees the same up-and-down flash in
1 nanosecond
less than 1 nanosecond
more than 1 nanosecond
You look at the clock on the Big Ben Tower in London and it reads 12 noon. If you could hypothetically travel away from the clock at the speed of light and view it with a telescope, it would
run faster than a clock in your vehicle
run slower than a clock in your vehicle
be frozen at 12 noon
According to the special theory of relativity, while traveling at very high speed your pulse rate
increases
decreases
remains unchanged
As the speed of a particle approaches the speed of light, the momentum of the particle
is no longer in spacetime
approaches zero
transforms to energy
approaches infinity
According to relativity theory, if a space trip finds a son or daughter biologically older than their parents, then the space trip is taken by the
son or daughter
parents
either of these
neither, it can't be done
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