Question: A horizontal turntable rotates with angular speed . There is a clock at the center of the turntable and one at a distance r from

A horizontal turntable rotates with angular speed ω. There is a clock at the center of the turntable and one at a distance r from the center. In an inertial reference frame, the clock at distance r is moving with speed u = rω.

(a) Show that from time dilation according to special relativity, time intervals Δt0 for the clock at rest and Δtr for the moving clock are related by

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(b) In a reference frame rotating with the table, both clocks are at rest. Show that the clock at distance r experiences a pseudoforce Fr = mrω2 in this accelerated frame and that this is equivalent to a difference in gravitational potential between r and the origin of фr0 = ½r2ω2. Use this potential difference in Equation 2 to show that in this frame the difference in time intervals is the same as in the inertial frame.

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