Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Getting started
- 2 Rough and ready Relativity
- 3 The dilation of time
- 4 Three clocks and a pair of twins
- 5 Starting again
- 6 Space–time diagrams
- 7 Time and distance ‘over there’
- 8 Co-ordinate systems
- 9 Combining speeds
- 10 Causality and the speed of light
- 11 The nature of spacetime
- 12 Interval
- 13 Old friends revisited
- 14 The scales of the spacetime diagram
- 15 The radar point of view
- 16 Relations between the radar and time–distance systems
- 17 Constant acceleration
- 18 Dynamics–mass, momentum, force
- 19 The mass–energy relation
- 20 The effect of acceleration on time measurement
- 21 Time as experienced by a constant acceleration traveller
- 22 Time and distance measurements of a constant acceleration observer
- 23 The Principle of Equivalence
- 24 The metric
- 25 Introducing geodesies
- 26 How to find ordinary geodesies
- 27 Inverse square law gravity
- 28 Curved spacetime
- 29 The metric around the Sun
- 30 Light and gravity
- 31 The scandal about Mercury
- 32 How Einstein did it
- 33 A few conclusions
- Index
16 - Relations between the radar and time–distance systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Getting started
- 2 Rough and ready Relativity
- 3 The dilation of time
- 4 Three clocks and a pair of twins
- 5 Starting again
- 6 Space–time diagrams
- 7 Time and distance ‘over there’
- 8 Co-ordinate systems
- 9 Combining speeds
- 10 Causality and the speed of light
- 11 The nature of spacetime
- 12 Interval
- 13 Old friends revisited
- 14 The scales of the spacetime diagram
- 15 The radar point of view
- 16 Relations between the radar and time–distance systems
- 17 Constant acceleration
- 18 Dynamics–mass, momentum, force
- 19 The mass–energy relation
- 20 The effect of acceleration on time measurement
- 21 Time as experienced by a constant acceleration traveller
- 22 Time and distance measurements of a constant acceleration observer
- 23 The Principle of Equivalence
- 24 The metric
- 25 Introducing geodesies
- 26 How to find ordinary geodesies
- 27 Inverse square law gravity
- 28 Curved spacetime
- 29 The metric around the Sun
- 30 Light and gravity
- 31 The scandal about Mercury
- 32 How Einstein did it
- 33 A few conclusions
- Index
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- Discovering Relativity for Yourself , pp. 172 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1981