Ch. 15 Study Questions
1. State the first postulate of Special Relativity.
2. How must an object be moving to be describable by Special Relativity?t
3. In General Relativity, gravity is not a force. So, Einstein, what is it?
4. What happens to the passage of time on a clock as the clock moves faster and faster?
5. What happens to the energy of a photon flying outward through a star’s gravitational field?
6. What is the maximum possible mass of a neutron star?
7. What is the “event horizon” of a black hole?
8. What is a Schwarzschild black hole?
9. What is a Kerr black hole?
10. What do you call the connection from a rotating black hole to another part of spacetime?
11. What are the four mass ranges for black holes?
12. What are gravitational waves?
