We will see that Newton's laws of classical physics apply only in certain "inertial" frames of reference. As an example, consider being in an airplane on a long trans-Pacific flight. It is dark, the shades are drawn, and all of your fellow passengers are quietly asleep, watching movies, or reading. You however, being a newly trained physicist, want to do an experiment to see how fast the plane is flying. With the tools you have (no GPS!) which one of the following is true. If you toss something to a friend down the aisle, and they toss it back to you, there will be a difference in the speeds in the two directions because of the speed of the airplane. O Drop something. It will not fall straight down because the plane is moving O Look at the tip of the coffee's liquid surface in your cup. It tips more the faster you go. There is no experiment we can do.

We will see that Newton's laws of classical physics apply only in certain "inertial" frames of reference. As an example, consider being in an airplane on a long trans-Pacific flight. It is dark, the shades are drawn, and all of your fellow passengers are quietly asleep, watching movies, or reading. You however, being a newly trained physicist, want to do an experiment to see how fast the plane is flying. With the tools you have (no GPS!) which one of the following is true. If you toss something to a friend down the aisle, and they toss it back to you, there will be a difference in the speeds in the two directions because of the speed of the airplane. O Drop something. It will not fall straight down because the plane is moving O Look at the tip of the coffee's liquid surface in your cup. It tips more the faster you go. There is no experiment we can do.

Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text

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Author:Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett

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Chapter9: Relativity

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 5OQ: Which of the following statements are fundamental postulates of the special theory of relativity?...

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