Deck 26: Special Relativity

Question 1

The first person to recognize that motions add and subtract from each other:

A) Newton
B) Kepler
C) Copernicus
D) Galileo

Answer 1

Galileo

Question 2

It was believed that light waves moved through this substance:

A) aether
B) air
C) special relative substance
D) general relativity

Answer 2

aether

Question 3

The idea that motion fundamentally alters the way space and time behaves is known as _____.

A) inertia
B) special relativity
C) E=mc²
D) black holes

Answer 3

special relativity

Question 4

The Michelson-Morley experiment was an attempt to measure

A) the speed of light in a vacuum.
B) the speed of light in air.
C) the motion of the Earth relative to the Sun.
D) the motion of the Earth relative to a substance at rest called the aether.

Question 5

The ________ paradox looked at traveling and non-traveling astronauts.

Question 6

The amount of length contraction of an object as it approaches the speed of light is called the ____.

Question 7

The Michelson-Morley experiment has been called the most famous 'failed' experiment.

Question 8

Special relativity explained gravity.