Re: Relativity

[Jon Bell <jtbell@cs1.presby.edu>]

  <PHYS010@NMSUVM1.NMSU.EDU> wrote:
> 2.  One must be careful with the question, "What does the observer SEE?"
> What is seen is not what is "measured" in the usuall sense. The
> relativity equations apply to measurements. An observer "sees" the
> body as rotated. To make the distinction clearer one should read
> about the question. I do not have any good references here but there
> is a good article in Physics Today in 1959 or 1960 when the subject
> first discussed.

A Web search via http://www.altavista.com/ for the phrase "Terrell 
effect" turned up a few hits, including the following which supposedly 
has some pictures (which I can't view directly using Lynx).

	http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~cbetts/relpics.html

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Jon Bell <jtbell@presby.edu>                        Presbyterian College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science        Clinton, South Carolina USA
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