Introduction to Classical Mechanics · Problem 11.25

Relativity (Kinematics) — Morin

Physics — Mechanics · acceleration-and-redshift

Problem

Use a Minkowski diagram to solve the following problem: Two people stand a distance dd apart. They simultaneously start accelerating in the same direction (along the line between them) with the same proper acceleration aa. At the instant they start to move, how fast does each person's clock tick in the (changing) frame of the other person?

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