A highly reliable laser emits a steady beam of light at a fixed frequency f that hits a photodetector a light year away in what we can assume is empty space. The laser/detector setup is now placed as a system with a black hole directly behind the laser. What happens to the frequency of the light beam?
a.
The laser emits the same light at its position because nothing changes with respect to the laser. One can imagine the light being stretched as it climbs out of the potential well of the black hole. A longer wavelength means a lower frequency of light. This is called gravitational redshift, because the light loses energy due to gravity and shifts toward the red end of the spectrum.
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A. 7.21 m/s B. 12.2 m/s C. 20.4 m/s D. 25.0 m/s E. 17.3 m/s
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A) the sidereal day being shorter than the solar day. B) precession shifting the celestial pole. C) the Moon following the ecliptic, instead of the equator. D) the Earth's revolution being slightly less than exactly 365.25 days. E) the Solar winds blowing the Earth farther away from the Sun.
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A) ionizing radiation. B) transitions within an atom's innermost electrons. C) transitions within the atomic nucleus. D) none of the above