What happens to the passage of time on a clock as the clock moves faster and faster?What happens to the energy of a photon flying outward through a star’s gravitational field?

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?

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