All you can say about it is that it then vibrates perpendicular to the x-axis. But that could be up and down parallel to the y-axis, in and out parallel to the z-axis, or some of it in every possible direction perpendicular to the x-axis. We "polarize" the light when we want to pick out only one perpendicular direction and stop all the others.
The easiest way I know to explain it is this:
-- Take a flashlight and a ball into a dark room.
-- Turn on the flashlight and point it at the ball.
-- Half of the ball is lighted up by the flashlight, and the other half is dark.
-- There is no way you can turn or twist the ball to make more or less
than 50% of it lighted up and more or less than 50% of it dark.
<em>Everything</em> in the solar system ... as long as it's shaped like a ball ... is
half illuminated by the sun and half dark.
Potential energy is the energy possessed by a body by virtue of its position or configuration . And energy is the capacity of doing work since power is work divided by time therefore change in potential energy divided by time is equal to the power of the object.
Answer:
The answer is "The object's speed relative to S can be greater than or less than its speed relative to S', depending on the actual values."
Explanation:
The S' frame and the object are moving in a positive direction. The object is moving with respect to the S frame so the S frame the rest frame
take the velocity of the object with respect to the rest frame as v and the velocity of the S' frame with respect S frame as v2
relative velocity of the object to the S' frame would be
Vrel = v2- v
This means the Vrel of the object with respect to the S' frame is less than the Vrel of the object with respect to the S frame
However is the S' velocity is greater than that of the object then the Vrel of the object with respect to the S' frame is greater than the Vrel of the object with respect to the S frame.
This would mean the second option is the answer, the relative speed of the object depends on the actual values.
