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Saturday, November 25, 2017

Both Frames Moving Linearly...

And if both reference frames are moving,



From the post "Thought Experiment Gone Wrong" dated 17 Nov 2017,

x=xvt1v2

So,

x=xvt1v2

It is tempting to substitute one into the other, and get

x"=xvt1v2vt1v2

in this case, v is the speed measured in x frame not x.  Every unit in x as measured in x is scaled by the factor 11v2.  Instead we should have,

x"=xvtvt(1v2)(1v2)=x(v+v)t(1v2)(1v2)

where v is also scaled by 11v2,

vv1v2.

Do we scale v again in the denominator?  No.  The scaling factor from x" to x does not get scaled again.  The translation term get scaled.

Just for the fun of it...