FIZIKA A 19 (2010) 3 , 119-124

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COORDINATE TIME HYPERBOLIC MOTIOM FOR BELL'S SPACESHIP EXPERIMENT

ADRIAN SFARTI
387 Soda Hall, UC Berkeley, U. S. A.

Received 25 November 2009;     Revised manuscript received 24 July 2010
Accepted 28 July 2010     Online 24 January 2011

A simple and comprehensive solution is given for the Bell thought experiment. Using the equations of hyperbolic motion expressed in coordinate time, we can easily derive the distance between rockets as a function of time, the time elapsed between rocket takeoff and string breaking as well as the expression that gives the exact coordinate time of string breaking.

PACS numbers: 03.30.+p
UDC 531.18:530.12

Keywords: Bell's spaceship paradox, Minkowski diagrams, hyperbolic motion

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