An electric bulb, connected to a make and break power supply, switches off and on every second in its rest frame. What is the frequency of its switching off and on as seen from a spaceship travelling at a speed 0.8c?
As the Lorentz transformation suggests there will be time dilation for a moving object with respect to rest frame which is given by
Where , V is velocity of moving object and C is speed of light in vacuum i.e.
And is time in rest frame.
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Time taken by the bulb to switch off and switch on with respect to spaceship will be
Frequency will be