Relativity Lite

Index | 107 planets, 35, 37, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 plasticity, 11 popcorn, 83 positrons, 80 potential energy (PE), 25, 49, 50, 51, 53, 57, 82 precession, 53 pressure, 54, 77, 80, 83, 84, 91, 92 principle of equivalence, 38, 45, 46 probabilistic, 63 proper time, 5, 12, 13, 18, 26, 37, 45, 60, 68, 93 protons, 28, 54, 61, 66, 80 pseudoforce, 51 Ptolemaic, 2, 15 pulse, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 Pythagorean theorem, 5, 21, 22, 28, 59, 68 quantum, 54, 55, 61, 62, 80, 83 R (see cosmic scale factor) RA (see Right Ascension) radial, 53, 68, 87 radiation, 3, 10, 12, 13, 61, 65, 68, 80, 85, 86 radiation dosage, 10 radius, 10, 19, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 60, 63, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 78, 85, 91 reality shift, 38 recessional velocities, 67, 70, 72, 73 recipe, 22 red shift, 32, 87, 88 reference, 2, 4, 5, 12, 18, 23, 26, 29, 34, 36, 37, 39, 43 reference frame, 4, 37 relativistic Doppler shift, 32, 40 relativistically, 14 RelLab, 29, 30, 34, 38, 39 rest, 8, 13, 15, 16, 18, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 50, 57, 60, 71, 82, 83, 95 rest mass, 13 Riess, Adam G., 89 Right Ascension (RA), 87, 88 ring, 30, 35, 63, 77 R max , 74, 75, 92 Robertson, H. P., and A. G. Walker, 67 Robertson-Walker metric, 68, 74 rocket, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 23, 24, 26, 27, 38, 60, 68, 95, 98, 101 rotational, 63, 82, 89 Rubin, Vera C., and W. Kent Ford, 89 rugby, 24, 25 runaway expansion, 84, 91 saddle shape, 74, 77 Sakurai Prize, 79 saucer, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 scale, 38, 47, 69, 71, 72, 74, 77, 86 Schwarzschild radius, 56, 59, 60, 61 Schwarzschild solution, 93, 98 Sears, F. W., and R. W. Brehme, 93 shape, 22, 27, 45, 68, 74, 76, 77, 82, 83, 85, 86 similar triangles, 22, 27 simultaneous, 23 singularity, 56, 61, 62, 63, 77 soap bubbles, 88 solar masses, 65, 66 Solar System, 15, 57 space, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 43, 45, 46, 47, 51, 54, 55, 56, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 74, 79, 80, 81, 89, 91, 92, 95 spacecraft, 28, 44 spaceship, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 15, 16, 28, 32, 43, 45, 46, 56, 61 spacetime, 24, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 74, 76, 80, 83, 84, 86 spatial, 46, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 93, 94, 95 spectrum, 3, 30, 32 speed, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 36, 38, 39, 43, 50, 57, 58, 60, 63, 65, 66, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 81, 85, 89, 91, 92 speed of light, 2, 3, 5, 13, 43, 60 sphere, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 77, 78 spherical, 63, 71, 72, 77, 85 spin, 52, 61, 63, 79, 81 spiral, 65 spiritual meaning, 11 spontaneously broken, 82 star, 29, 32, 47, 48, 54, 55, 56, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 83, 84, 101 static, 67, 91 stellar, 54, 89 Straton, G. Douglas, 11, 12 Sun, 28, 29, 30, 34, 36, 47, 49, 51, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59