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Albertgauss
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- Constant Acceleration Special Relativity
Basically I just want to work out a constant acceleration problem in relativity, of the same kind of introductory physics.
Vo= 0.9999c
Vf = 0
D= 50 Au
Accel, Earth frame?
Accel, Ship frame?
Time of transit, Earth frame?
Time of transit, ship frame?
Motion is 1-D. All origins line up at the beginning of the problem. Neglect orbit of Earth, etc, approximate all motion just a 1-D motion as possible.
Wikipedia has a ton of acceleration formulas, but I don't know which one I would use. I also don't know how to proceed with the time (of either frame) calculation. I'm sure this has been done on this website before, but since the words "relativity" and "acceleration" are so common in physics it was tons of pages I couldn't search through. I am happy to be pointed out to worked-out example, somewhere, if it exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration_(special_relativity)
Vo= 0.9999c
Vf = 0
D= 50 Au
Accel, Earth frame?
Accel, Ship frame?
Time of transit, Earth frame?
Time of transit, ship frame?
Motion is 1-D. All origins line up at the beginning of the problem. Neglect orbit of Earth, etc, approximate all motion just a 1-D motion as possible.
Wikipedia has a ton of acceleration formulas, but I don't know which one I would use. I also don't know how to proceed with the time (of either frame) calculation. I'm sure this has been done on this website before, but since the words "relativity" and "acceleration" are so common in physics it was tons of pages I couldn't search through. I am happy to be pointed out to worked-out example, somewhere, if it exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration_(special_relativity)