Headlight Effect Diagram
Photo Credit - http://web-docs.gsi.de/~wolle/EB_at_GSI/GE_DETECTOR/DOPPLER/headlight.jpg

 

Code Number: 7F10.40

Demo Title: Head Light Effect

Condition: Excellent

Principle: Relativity and the Speed of Light

Area of Study: Modern Physics

Equipment: 

Flashlight.

References:

  • Adam Neat, "An Intuitive Approach to Cosmic Horizons", TPT, Vol. 57, #2, Feb. 2019, p. 80.
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  • David Green, "The Strange World of Classical Physics", TPT, Vol. 48, #2, Feb. 2010, p. 101.
  • Joseph A. Spizuoco, "The Simultaneity of  Relativistic Pitchforks", TPT, Vol. 31, #9, Dec. 1993, p. 552.
  • Edwin F. Taylor, "Light Propagation", TPT, Vol. 25, #4, Apr. 1987, p. 252.
  • N. David Mermin, "The Amazing Many Colored Relativity Engine", AJP, Vol. 56, #7, July 1988, p. 600.
  • Peter D. Noerdlinger, "Cylindrical Cardboard Model for a Rotating System in Special Relativity", AJP, Vol. 47, #3, March 1979, p. 218.