These are the notes I wrote for a course I taught to second-year undergraduate students at the University of York in the 2023/2024 academic year. This course was, in a way, an experiment: can we cover a lot of ground at a relatively high level without young university students freaking…
It would have been impossible for me to understand anything about this problem without Roland Grappin’s benevolent and enthusiastic help, thank you!
This exercise benefited from the kind review of the Spacetrain™ engineering team. Thanks to them! Out of respect for them and for the sake of honesty, I must therefore warn that they do not agree with the assumption used in question 4 (constant Q).Indeed, the height h of the train…
