Re: [Phys-l] Special Relativity

[brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

On 2/1/2011 1:24 AM, Robert Yeend wrote:
> Help, please!
>
> A student asked the following question, to which I did not have a
> ready answer:
>
> "If someone on earth sent a message to a person in a spaceship
> traveling at relativistic speed, would the voice on the message sound
> distorted because of time dilation?"
>
> Ideas?
>
> Bob Yeend
> Justin-Siena HS
> Napa, CA
There are several ways in which a voice message could be encoded on an 
electromagnetic wave,
and I suggest the results would depend on that modulation.
If the message were sent as some compressed sampled digital code, then 
when the message was reassembled at the receiver, it might well have its 
timbre preserved.
 An earlier modulation method like AM or FM would be subject to carrier 
frequency shift, and modulation frequency shift.

Brian W