If you're traveling along with the component and make a measurement,
.Hmm, quite a challenge. You'd have to coil up a few billion km of test leadHas anyone encountered an analysis of the values
of electronic components such as inductors, capacitors,
etc at fractional light speed, where, presumably,
mass and size change with velocity?
If you're traveling along with the component and make a measurement,
then you'll see exactly the same component value as you do when you and
the component are at rest.
When I figure out how to attach test leads to a resistor moving at
0.99c, then maybe the value in other frames will become of interest
Not to mention that the red shift would turn the red test lead into a"Tim Shoppa" <shoppa@trailing-edge.com> wrote in message
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Has anyone encountered an analysis of the values
of electronic components such as inductors, capacitors,
etc at fractional light speed, where, presumably,
mass and size change with velocity?
If you're traveling along with the component and make a measurement,
then you'll see exactly the same component value as you do when you
and
the component are at rest.
When I figure out how to attach test leads to a resistor moving at
0.99c, then maybe the value in other frames will become of interest
Hmm, quite a challenge. You'd have to coil up a few billion km of
test lead
in advance, and as it uncoiled at the speed of light, its inductance
would
be changing... it would be heck for AC current measurements. I
suppose
unspooling it that fast might make for a bit of triboelectric
interference,
too.
That helps explain why they use such darn strong springs in the little
miniclips, though. Never could figure that out.
HP did the experiment of taking one of their cesium clocks around the