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Sanjay87
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Hi,
I'm quite new to relativity and I'm just going through some problems from past exam papers to prepare for an upcoming subject. The following question has me a little stumped:
Betty is at the origin of her frame of reference. At a certain point in time, this also corresponds to the origin of Ann's reference frame. Betty gives Ann the following instructions: walk 1km East, 2km North and 3km East. (there is an x-y graph pictured, indicating that 1km East corresponds to local co-ordinates (1,0) and 1km North corresponds to local co-ordinates (0,1)). The questions are - What is Ann's final position in her own frame? What is Ann's final position in Betty's frame?
Presumably, Ann and Betty are in different reference frames S and S' respectively, with S' moving at constant speed v relative to S.
I hope somebody can help me.
Kind Regards,
George
I'm quite new to relativity and I'm just going through some problems from past exam papers to prepare for an upcoming subject. The following question has me a little stumped:
Betty is at the origin of her frame of reference. At a certain point in time, this also corresponds to the origin of Ann's reference frame. Betty gives Ann the following instructions: walk 1km East, 2km North and 3km East. (there is an x-y graph pictured, indicating that 1km East corresponds to local co-ordinates (1,0) and 1km North corresponds to local co-ordinates (0,1)). The questions are - What is Ann's final position in her own frame? What is Ann's final position in Betty's frame?
Presumably, Ann and Betty are in different reference frames S and S' respectively, with S' moving at constant speed v relative to S.
I hope somebody can help me.
Kind Regards,
George