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Re: Why should I learn mathematics to understand physics

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Why should I learn mathematics to understand physics
Date 2017-02-26 15:06 +1100
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On 26/02/2017 12:12 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 25/02/2017 9:47 PM, matt.rush200@outlook.com wrote:
>> Sylvia
>>>> On 25/02/2017 2:11 AM, matt.r...@outlook.com wrote:
>>>> There is no doubt that maths is vital in technology. We can't do
>>>> without it.
>>>> Making sure exact amounts are used etc. And then there is the digital
>>>> age. Computers genetics etc. Without maths these would be impossible.
>>>> But you ignore where maths is used to falsify theory. The classic
>>>> example is fizeau. In this experiment light travels at variable speeds
>>>> in the water. This is indisputable. But it is also inconsistent with
>>>> SR.
>>
>>> SR does not require light to travel at c through water. It does require
>>> that light travel at some fixed velocity through water (for a given
>>> state; temperature, pressure, etc.), relative to the water. Further if
>>> the water is moving relative to an observer, then the speed of the light
>>> in the water relative to the observer obeys the velocity composition
>>> rule identified in SR, rather than being the result of simple addition.
>>> So far from falsifying SR, it verifies it.
>>
>> In other words you have just admitted that light is observed to travel at
>> variable speeds in the water frame, contrary to SR, and this needs to
>> be "fixed" mathematically by the 'velocity composition rule' to falsely
>> make it appear that it has a fixed velocity.
>>
> What's variable about it? For a given state of the water, the velocity
> relative to the water is fixed. That's all that SR requires, since that
> is consistent with the requirement that the laws of physics be the same
> for all inertial frames.
>
> Sylvia.

You could have pointed out that the speed through water depends somewhat 
on the frequency of the light, so I should have included the same 
frequency as a caveat. But probably you didn't know that.

Sylvia.

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    Re: Why should I learn mathematics to understand physics Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-25 20:08 +1100
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          Re: Why should I learn mathematics to understand physics Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-26 15:06 +1100
            Re: Why should I learn mathematics to understand physics matt.rush200@outlook.com - 2017-02-26 07:13 -0800
              Re: Why should I learn mathematics to understand physics Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-27 12:59 +1100
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              Re: Why should I learn mathematics to understand physics Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-02-27 13:00 +1100
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