Special Relativity, General Relativity, Interstellar #2 Flashcards
- All laws of physics for physics have the same functional form in any inertial reference frame
- Speed of light (in a vacuum) is same in any inertial reference frame
1905-Postulates
A very rareified and highly elastic substance formerly believed to permeate all space..
Aether
The greek symbol __ is the speed of a reference frame, expressed as the fraction of the speed of light
Beta
The fact that the farther away an object is from us in the universe, the greater the redshift is one of the clues that led to the __ idea.
Big Bang
A region of space where the gravitational field is so strong that nothing can have enough kinetic energy to escape
Blackhole
Short for membrane. In the 5-D bulk, it’s the 4-D spacetime..
Brane
A gravitational distortion from two coalesing neutron stars produces a rapidly increasing frequency response known as a __.
Chirp
Particles ejected out of the sun and generated in the Milky Way galaxy
Cosmic Rays
In spite of the popular press given to __, Special Relativity was actually developed by many people.
Einstein
A quantity which describes the strength of the electromagnetic force. The more you got, the bigger the force
Electric Charge
A series of experiments beginning in about 1889 which show the inertial mass are intimately related to better than 1 part in 10^12
EOTVOS
The classical transformations between reference frames
Galilean
The greek symbol __ is perhaps best thought of as a distortion factor.
Gamma
Abbreviation for General Relativity used in conversation.
GR
The more common phrase for gravitational charge
Gravitational Mass
Disturbances in the curvature of spacetime, generated be accelereated masses, that propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light.
Gravitational Waves
The propotionality constant between the net force and acceleration, usually mentioned as F=ma and referred to as ‘inertial mass’
Inertia
A value which does not change between between reference frames
Invariant
Person known for a simplified explanation of how spacetime and matter are intertwined.
John-Wheeler
It is thought R.W. Wood, a scientist at __, successfully used the Doppler effect to trick his way out of a ticket for running a red light.
Johns Hopkins
The phenomenon that a moving object’s length is measured to be shorter than its proper length
Length Contraction
An effect included in images generated for the movie to give a realisteic photographic effect.
Lens flair
Laser Interferonmetry Gravitational-Wave Observatory
LIGO
The name of the Special Relativity transformations between reference frames. Also the name of a prominant mathematician.
Lorentz
These transformation equations convert between {u_x’, u_y’, u_z’, 1} coordinates and {u_x, u_y, u_z, 1} coordinates in different inertial reference frames
Lorentz Velocity
A word popular during the years 1850-1920 which means ‘producing or transmitting light’
Luminiferous
A spread-out __ of gravitational wave observatories in the US, Europe, and India…
Network
Examples of __ refence frames include:
- Rockets during an acceleration phase
- The rotating Earth
- Accelerating spaceships
Non-inertial
One possible name for the 5th dimension coordinate. It is often discuessed similar to a spatial-like dimension
Out-back
It is not clear if wormholes actually can exist. Calculations indicate if one is created, the walls will attract each other and __.
Pinch-off
Minkowski and Einstein tried to solve the crises of the late 1800s using the __ used in most textbooks today
Popular Treatment
An idea stated without proof
Postulate
The effect of an EM wave’s frequency getting smaller and the wavelength longer as the source of light moves away from the observer
Redshift
The change in frequency of light, caused by the realative motion of the source and the observer, when taking into account effects described by the special theory of relativity
Relativistic Doppler Shift
Comparing the values for measurements made in different coordinate systems
Relativity
Two events occuring at the same instant in time.
Simultaneous
The subfield of weather that deals with the EM fields of the sun and planets and describes the radiation dose received by pilots and astronauts and the impact of cosmic rays upon satellites and communications
Space Weather
Another name for the collection of {x,y,z,t}
Spacetime
The jump to light speed in __ is incorrectly represented.
Star-Wars
A construction used to represent {x,y,z,outback} with time illustrated differently
Tesseract
GPS system. Due to the combined effects of Special and General Relativity, the GPS satellite clocks appear to run __ microsec/day faster
Thirty-five
The apparent rise and fall of water levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun
Tidal Waves
Nearly all of the explanations of the __ fudge the answer by ignoring that the spaceships must accelerate and therefore Special Relativity doesn’t strickly apply
Twin Paradox
A speculative structure linking disparate poitns in spacetime
Wormhole
