Doppler Effect Associated with the Reflection of Light on a Moving Mirror.pdfVIP

Doppler Effect Associated with the Reflection of Light on a Moving Mirror Bernhard Rothenstein and Ioan Damian Politehnnica University of Timisoara, Department of Physics, Timisoara, Romania bernhard_rothenstein@, ijdamian@ Abstract The Doppler Effect associated with the reflection on a moving mirror is reduced to two Doppler Effect experiments involving the incoming incident ray and the outgoing reflected ray or vice- versa. The dependence of the corresponding Doppler factors on the incidence angle on the stationary mirror. The reflection of a plane-polarized light wave reflected from a uniformly moving mirror is associated with two Doppler Effect experiments. Figure 1 shows a vertical plane mirror, an incident and a reflected ray as detected from the mirror’s rest frame K’(X ’O’Y’). The incidence and the reflection take place at the origin O’(0.0) at a zero time t ’=0 generating the event E0 (x = 0, y = 0,t = 0) that is characterized by the same space-time coordinates in all inertial reference frames in relative motion. The mirror and its rest frame move with constant velocity V relative to the K(XOY) reference frame in the positive direction of the common OX(O’X ’) axes. The corresponding axes of the two frames are parallel to each other. At the origin of time in the two frames (t=t ’=0) the origins O and O’ are located at the same point in space. The first Doppler Effect experiment involves the incident ray, observers O (