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Babu Banarasi Das: National Institute of Technology and Management

This document provides a list of important questions for Unit I of Relativistic Mechanics for the B. Tech first semester in 2017-2018. It includes 9 short answer type questions covering topics like inertial frames of reference, postulates of special relativity, proper length and time, kinetic energy and momentum relationships, and relativistic force. It also lists 5 long answer type questions requiring more in-depth discussion and derivations on topics such as the Michelson-Morley experiment, Lorentz transformations, time dilation, velocity addition theorem, and the relationship between mass, speed, and energy.

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Babu Banarasi Das: National Institute of Technology and Management

This document provides a list of important questions for Unit I of Relativistic Mechanics for the B. Tech first semester in 2017-2018. It includes 9 short answer type questions covering topics like inertial frames of reference, postulates of special relativity, proper length and time, kinetic energy and momentum relationships, and relativistic force. It also lists 5 long answer type questions requiring more in-depth discussion and derivations on topics such as the Michelson-Morley experiment, Lorentz transformations, time dilation, velocity addition theorem, and the relationship between mass, speed, and energy.

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BABU BANARASI DAS

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT


B. TECH. FIRST SEMESTER (2017-2018)

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
UNIT I- RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:

1. What are inertial and non inertial frames of reference? Is earth an inertial frame
of reference? Why?
2. State the fundamental postulates of special theory of relativity.
3. What is Proper length and Proper time?
4. What are the objective and conclusions of Michelson Morley Experiment?
5. What are massless particles?
6. Derive a relation between relativistic Kinetic energy and momentum.
7. Derive a relation between energy and momentum.
8. Show that the relativistic force is given by F = mo (1 – v2/c2)-3/2dv/dt
9. Show that acceleration is invariant under Galilean transformation.

LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS:

1. Discuss briefly the Michelson-Morley experiment and mention its outcome.


2. Deduce Lorentz transformation equations. Discuss how these account for the
phenomenon of length contraction.
3. Derive an expression for time dilation. Give an example to show that time dilation
is real effect.
4. Deduce Relativistic velocity addition theorem. Show that it is consistent with
Einstein’s second postulate of relativity.
5. Show how the relativistic invariance of the law of conservation of momentum
leads to the concept of variation of mass with speed and the mass energy
equivalence.

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