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Exercise 2

Worldlines

 

E2.     On the spacetime diagram at right draw the following worldlines:

A.  Object at rest at the origin O.

B.   Object moving to the right through O at 1/2 c.

C.  Object moving to the left through O at 1/2 c.

D.  Object moving to the right through O at 0.8 c.

E.   Object moving to the left through O at 0.8 c.

F.   Photon moving to the right through O at c.

G.  Photon moving to the left through O at c.

H.  Object at rest at x = 3 cy.

I.    Object starting at rest at x = 1 cy when t = 0 and which accelerates smoothly to the right so as just to stay ahead of photon F.

 

How fast is D going with respect to B?