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A spaceship is traveling away from Earth at 0.70 c The...

A spaceship is traveling away from Earth at $0.70 \mathrm{c}$ The astronauts report home by radio every $4.0 \mathrm{h}$ (by their own clocks). (a) At what interval are the reports sent to Earth, according to Earth clocks? (b) At what interval are the reports received by Earth observers, according to their own clocks?

A spaceship is traveling away from Earth at $0.70 \mathrm{c}$ The astronauts report home by radio every $4.0 \mathrm{h}$ (by their own clocks). (a) At what interval are the reports sent to Earth, according to Earth clocks?
(b) At what interval are the reports received by Earth observers, according to their own clocks?

Key Concepts

Relativistic Doppler Effect

The relativistic Doppler effect extends the classical Doppler effect to high speeds, showing how the frequency and timing of signals change when the source and the observer move relative to each other. When the source is moving away from the observer, the signals are redshifted, meaning that the time intervals between received signals increase compared to the time intervals at which they are emitted.

Signal Propagation Delay

Signal propagation delay accounts for the finite speed at which signals (such as radio waves) travel through space. Even after considering time dilation, the actual interval at which signals are received by an observer must also include the time it takes for each signal to traverse the increasing distance between a moving source and a stationary observer.

Time Dilation

Time dilation is a fundamental concept in special relativity stating that a clock moving relative to an inertial observer appears to tick slower than one at rest with respect to that observer. This effect is quantified by the Lorentz factor (?), which scales the proper time interval into a longer coordinate time interval in another inertial frame.

Proper Time

Proper time refers to the time interval measured by an observer at rest relative to the event being timed. In scenarios like this, the astronauts' measurements of time (4.0 hours between radio reports) are proper times, which are then related to the times measured in other inertial frames after accounting for relativistic effects.

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