- #36
nasu
Homework Helper
- 4,442
- 894
These indexes on time don't make much sense to me.
What would you mean by tC;D for example?
It cannot be the time to move from C to D because this is irrelevant here. It's not about the stone thrown from the building.
Just imagine that you have a stone standing at D and then you move it down by 1m.
The time does not depend on what origin you choose for coordinates.
If the stone moves from D to D' in Δt, then this is the time interval for that motion.
If you measure distances from B or from C, the time interval is still Δt and the stone still moves from D to D'.
Your clock does not "care" how you measure the distance D to D'.
Only in relativistic regime the time may depend on the coordinate systems, if these are moving relative to each other. But here all these points (A,B,C,D) are not moving.
What would you mean by tC;D for example?
It cannot be the time to move from C to D because this is irrelevant here. It's not about the stone thrown from the building.
Just imagine that you have a stone standing at D and then you move it down by 1m.
The time does not depend on what origin you choose for coordinates.
If the stone moves from D to D' in Δt, then this is the time interval for that motion.
If you measure distances from B or from C, the time interval is still Δt and the stone still moves from D to D'.
Your clock does not "care" how you measure the distance D to D'.
Only in relativistic regime the time may depend on the coordinate systems, if these are moving relative to each other. But here all these points (A,B,C,D) are not moving.