Fallacy of Relativistic Doppler Effect
PD says...
On Mar 29, 6:27=A0am, (Daryl McCullough)
wrote:
Uh, Koobee is not that clueless. I'm sure it was a typo.
What he meant to write was
f'/f = (1+v/c)/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)
Oh yes, I'm sure. It's awfully easy to confuse the dot product with
the quotient.
Maybe he meant v.c/c^2, or in other words v/c cos(phi), where
phi is the angle between the velocity vector v and the velocity
vector for the light signal.
Koobee says plenty of truly stupid things, you don't need
to make a big deal over a typo.
But who knows? Maybe Koobee's whole basis for rejecting
Special Relativity is because he made a simple mathematical
error once, got the wrong answer, and blamed it on SR.
That seems to be the case with Androcles. He got hung up on
one line of Einstein's derivation of SR, and has never gotten
past that one line.
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Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY
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