Solved: Armed with highly sensitive detection equipment,

Chapter 18, Problem 58TAD

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Armed with highly sensitive detection equipment, you are in the front of a railroad car that is accelerating forward. Your friend at the rear of the car shines green light toward you. Do you find the light to be red-shifted (lowered in frequency), blue-shifted (increased in frequency), or neither? Explain. (Hint: Think in terms of the principle of equivalence. What is your accelerating railroad car equivalent to?)

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