Everything posted by Genady
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
Well, you are wrong about this and you are wrong about E = mc2 .
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There is no time dilation (split from The twin Paradox revisited)
Why do you call it absolute? Isn't it specific for two observers and two events (start and finish of the duration)?
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There is no time dilation (split from The twin Paradox revisited)
Yes. No absolute time. Each observer has its own proper time.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
You are wrong. This is not a general definition. A general definition is based on Lagrangian (remember Variational Calculus?). It becomes mv in this specific case. Did you ever see formula for momentum of photon, for example? It is not mv, because for photon m=0.
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There is no time dilation (split from The twin Paradox revisited)
It makes sense to compare proper times of different observers. That was what we did in the twins exercise. The proper time of one observer advanced 10 years while the proper time of another observer advanced 1 week. It is very physical result.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
No, this formula holds only for momentum of a system with constant, non-zero mass. Also in your book, they substituted P by mv after they assumed that the mass is constant. In other cases, the momentum formula is different and depends on specifics of the case.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
There is nothing to defend. You are mistaken when you say that textbooks say otherwise. Also in your book. It says, if mass is constant then from F=dP/dt we get F=ma. But it does not say that the mass must be constant.
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There is no time dilation (split from The twin Paradox revisited)
A passage of the proper time of an observer does not change. This is so in SR and in GR. (Proper time is time in a reference frame in which observer is at rest.)
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
Even with my poor Spanish - it is not one of the four languages I've mentioned earlier - I understand that it is not what the book says. It does not say that F=ma is valid for constant value of m only. It says, that if a momentum changes only due to a change of velocity while the mass is constant, then from F=dP/dt we can derive a familiar form of the Newton second law, F=ma. It does not mean, that this form, F=ma, is not valid otherwise. And it is valid. An instant value of force equals an instant value of mass multiplied by an instant value of acceleration. F(t) = m(t) x a(t). Nowhere in textbooks on Newtonian mechanics I ever saw that this is not so.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
It means to me that F=ma applies to momentary value of a if a changes in time.
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The Earth is not Accelerating Upwards.
Yes, what you say is GR. What I replied to above, is not.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
I can't believe you don't get this simple question, but I try again. You have acceleration changing in time, you observe it, you get the values as they change. Mass is known. You need to find force. One equation, one unknown.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
But you need to put some number for a to find F. Which number will you put if a is changing?
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
Let's say you observe a body moving with a variable acceleration and you want to know a force.
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The Earth is not Accelerating Upwards.
I see. Sorry, but it is not how GR works.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
My question is, what value of a should be used in F=ma if a is changing in time?
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
OK. How it works if the acceleration changes, for example, continuously increases?
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
I doubt it says that the law is not applicable if mass changes. Does it apply for constant a only?
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
Could you show me what exactly that physics text says?
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
It applies to a momentary mass, a mass at a moment in time.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
I mean misunderstanding. I have four in total. But everyday language is English.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
I see. When you said, 'considered for' you meant, 'relative to'. OK. Lost in translation.
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The Earth is not Accelerating Upwards.
Yes.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
The rocket is not an inertial frame because it accelerates. Consider relative to the ground.
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Physics in troubles: the real equation of force is F = ma and not F = dp/dt
Constant velocity relative to the rocket, but it changes relative to an inertial frame together with a changing velocity v of the rocket. Check in your source, how that ve is defined.