Morin Relativity Problem 5.15

Physics · modern-physics · relativity

Problem

Note that if v is very large compared with (but still small compared with c, so that our approximation is valid), then T ≈\approx v/g, which is independent of h. The reason for this is that the time in Eq. (5.31) is negligible, and the other two contributions on the lefthand side of Eq. (5.32) are both proportional to h, so the h’s cancel.

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