From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!seismo!hao!woods
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Clock Problem
Article-I.D.: hao.402
Posted: Thu Jan 20 02:14:47 1983
Received: Sun Jan 23 03:53:33 1983
References: ucbvax.628

   Admittedly, my relativity is scanty and old, but I'll bet the
relativistic effects in an accelerated frame over a time (?) period
have something to do with the integral of the acceleration (hey, that's
average velocity!) over that period. Since the acceleration of the object
moving in a circle is always towards the center of the circle, the net
integral of the acceleration will be nearly zero.
  Wow. Why am I going through all this? THe obvious thing is that velocity
is a VECTOR. Thus the object whirlig in a circle may have a lot of SPEED,
but not much velocity when averaged over time. If I am not mistaken,
relativistic effects depend on velocity, not on speed.

                        GREG
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