Re: Clock Properties


David wrote:
In Einstein's paper On The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies he states
that pendulum clocks don't behave the same way as other clocks.

I don't understand why physicists believe all clocks except pendulum
clocks share the same properties in terms of running at different
rates in different inertial frames. What property does every other
entity have measures time have that pendulum clocks do not and vice
versa.

Thanks,
Dave Seppala

OOps!
My eyeglasses outran my brain. For Special Relativiy you
should refer to the 1920 paper (not the 1905) where you
see the optical path is responsible for any motional
effects.

<< As judged from K, the clock is moving with the
velocity v; as judged from this reference-body, the
time which elapses between two strokes of the clock
is not one second, but... >>
http://www.bartleby.com/173/12.html

....and you'll find the appropriate imaginary operators applied
to the space-time.
http://www.bartleby.com/173/17.html
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~smyers/courses/astro12/speedoflight.html

Sue...


http://bigben.stanford.edu/sumo/status.htm

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