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| The '''clock hypothesis''' is an assumption in [[special relativity]]. It states that the rate of a clock doesn't depend on its acceleration but only on its instantaneous velocity. This is equivalent to stating, that a clock moving along a path <math>P</math> measures the [[proper time]], defined by: | | The writer is known as Irwin. One of the very best things in the world for me is to do aerobics and now I'm attempting to earn money with it. Supervising is my profession. North Dakota is her beginning location but she will have to move one day or another.<br><br>Stop by my web blog ... [http://www.neweracinema.com/tube/blog/181510 home std test] |
| :<math>d \tau = \int_P \sqrt {dt^2 - dx^2/c^2 - dy^2/c^2 - dz^2/c^2}</math>.
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| The clock hypothesis was implicitly (but not explicitly) included in Einstein's original 1905 formulation of special relativity. Since then, it has become a standard assumption and is usually included in the axioms of special relativity, especially in the light of experimental verification up to very high accelerations in [[particle accelerator]]s.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Time dilation of moving particles]]
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| == References ==
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| *S.R. Mainwaring, G.E. Stedman, ''Accelerated Clock Principles in Special Relativity''. Physical Review A47 (1993) 3611–3619.
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| *R. Anderson, I. Vetharaniam, G.E. Stedman, ''Conventionality of Synchronization, Gauge Dependence and Test Theories of Relativity.'', Physics Reports 295 (1998) 94–180.
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| *A.M. Eisele, ''On the Behavior of an Accelerated Clock'', Helvetica Physica Acta 60 (1987) 1024–1037.
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| *P. Mittelstaedt, H. Heintzmann, ''Laws of Physics in Accelerated Reference Frames'' (German), in Springer Tracts in Modern Physics (G. Höhler, ed.) 47 (1968) 185-225.
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| == External links ==
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| * [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/clock.html "Does a clock's acceleration affect its timing rate?"], from the USENET Physics FAQ
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