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This paper aims to provide teachers with a tool to teach the essential features of special relativity, considering the students' difficulties highlighted by numerous studies. Our proposal presents special relativity as the solution to the…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-06-10 Maria Grazia Blumetti , Biagio Buonaura , Giuseppe Giuliani , Marco Litterio

A new look at the so-called effect of an accelerating matter is presented. It was previously stated that the effect is optical in nature and consists in changing the frequency of the wave passing through a refractive sample moving with…

General Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 A. I. Frank

Phenomena of wave propagation in dynamically varying structures have reemerged as the temporal variations of the medium's properties can extend the possibilities for electromagnetic wave manipulation. While the dynamical change of the…

The relationship between classical and quantum mechanics is explored in an intuitive manner by the exercise of constructing a wave in association with a classical particle. Using special relativity, the time coordinate in the frame of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-08 C. L. Herzenberg

The velocity of a gravitational wave (GW) source provides crucial information about its formation and evolution processes. Previous studies considered the Doppler effect on the phase of GWs as a potential signature of a time-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-28 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Xian Chen , Pau Amaro-Seoane

The classical rotation is not self-consistent in the framework of the special theory of relativity. the Relativistic rotation is obtained, which takes the relativistic effect into account. It is demonstrated that the angular frequency of…

General Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Z. X. Cao , Ch. L. Chen , L. Liu

When a light pulse is reflected from a mirror, energy and momentum are exchanged between the electromagnetic field and the material medium. The resulting change in the energy of the reflected photons is directly related to their Doppler…

Optics · Physics 2012-07-30 Masud Mansuripur , Armis R. Zakharian

Doppler shift formulas are derived for two less studied scenarios: stationary receiver and source in harmonic oscillatory motion and stationary receiver and source in uniform circular motion. For each of the scenarios we derive a formula,…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-04 Bernhard Rothenstein , Albert Rothenstein

Synchronization by exchange of pulses is a widespread phenomenon, observed in flashing fireflies, applauding audiences and the neuronal network of the brain. Hitherto the focus has been on integrate-and-fire oscillators. Here we consider…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-13 Gunnar Pruessner , Seng Cheang , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

The Doppler shift of de Broglie wave is obtained for fermions and massive bosons using the conventional form of Lorentz transformations for momentum and energy of the particles. A formalism is developed to obtain the variation of wave…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-03 Sanchari De , Somenath Chakrabarty

The formula for the relativistic Doppler effect is investigated in the context of two compelling invariance axioms. The axioms are expressed in terms of an abstract operation generalizing the relativistic addition of velocities. We prove…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-26 Jean-Claude Falmagne , Jean-Paul Doignon

We set up the classical wave equation for a particle formed of an oscillatory zero-rest-mass charge together with its resulting electromagnetic waves, traveling in a potential field $V$ in a susceptible vacuum. The waves are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. X. Zheng-Johansson , P-I. Johansson

We present a theoretical model to sufficiently investigate the optical rotational Doppler effect based on modal expansion method. We find that the frequency shift content is only determined by the surface of spinning object and the reduced…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-02 Hailong Zhou , Dongzhi Fu , Jianji Dong , Pei Zhang , Xinliang Zhang

We propose and substantiate experimentally the cascaded rotational Doppler effect for interactions of spinning objects with light carrying angular momentum. Based on the law of parity conservation for electromagnetic interactions, we reveal…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-30 Junhong Deng , King Fai Li , Wei Liu , Guixin Li

Here we report the observation of the inverse Doppler effects in a flute. It is experimentally verified that, when there is a relative movement between the source and the observer, the inverse Doppler effect could be detected for all seven…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Xiao P. Zhao , Shi L. Zhai , Song Liu , Fang L. Shen , Lin L. Li , Chun R. Luo

An explanation of polarization entanglement is presented using Maxwells classical electromagnetic theory.Two key features are required to understand these classical origins.The first is that all waves diffract and weakly diffracting…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 John E. Carroll

Admitting the validity of Lorentz transformations for the space as time coordinates of the same event we derive their differential form in order to underline the correct prerequisites for the application of time and length contraction or…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-02 Stefan Popescu , Bernhard Rothenstein

An inverse Doppler shift occurs in a photonic crystal (PC) bounded by a moving wall. The interpretation of this result has stirred some controversy. In this paper, we address the problem using a diagrammatic approach. This visual…

The Doppler Effect associated with the reflection on a moving mirror is reduced to two Doppler Effect experiments involving the incoming incident ray and the outgoing reflected ray or vice-versa. The dependence of the corresponding Doppler…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-04 Bernhard Rothenstein , Ioan Damian

Gravitational wave astrophysics has only just begun, and as current detectors are upgraded and new detectors are built, many new, albeit faint, features in the signals will become accessible. One such feature is the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-23 Katie Chamberlain , Christopher J. Moore , Davide Gerosa , Nicolas Yunes