Timeline for Clocks in special relativity
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| Dec 21, 2020 at 18:15 | comment | added | Urb | Hi @GeorgeG, the last link is dead now, can you fix it? | |
| Sep 18, 2015 at 14:38 | comment | added | George G | Inertial frames don't accelerate, but there is nothing wrong with talking about how an accelerated object appears to one or more inertial observers. | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 12:43 | comment | added | bright magus | Equations for SR take no account for acceleration. | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 14:25 | comment | added | cth | @GeorgeG - I don't think it has anything to do with acceleration. In Landau's book he describes a passenger in a train which compares his own clock with the stations' clock. In his particular example: if the time it took for the train to get from station $A$ to station $B$ is 1 hour (according to the clock on station $B$) then according to the clock of the passenger it took him about 36 minutes to get from $A$ to $B$. Thus, for the passenger, the clocks on the stations run faster (because when he gets to station $B$ he sees that the clock there is 24 min ahead of his own clock). | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 16:08 | comment | added | George G | Yeah, the wording is not clear, but on the next page, there is a little discussion about acceleration, so I think this must be what the author meant. | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 16:06 | comment | added | user50381 | Hmm, very interesting. It is unclear that they mean acceleration here. They could've said explicitly - "other clocks accelerating with respect to him" instead of "other clocks moving with respect to him". I would definitely have a look at those lectures. Thanks. | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 16:01 | history | answered | George G | CC BY-SA 3.0 |