Paper 4, Section II, C
A star moves with speed in the -direction in a reference frame . When viewed in its rest frame it emits a photon of frequency which propagates along a line making an angle with the -axis. Write down the components of the four-momentum of the photon in . As seen in , the photon moves along a line that makes an angle with the -axis and has frequency . Using a Lorentz transformation, write down the relationship between the components of the four-momentum of the photon in to those in and show that
As viewed in , the star emits two photons with frequency in opposite directions with and , respectively. Show that an observer in records them as having a combined momentum directed along the -axis, where
and where is the combined energy of the photons as seen in . How is this momentum loss from the star consistent with its maintaining a constant speed as viewed in