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A comparison between the Doppler and cosmological redshifts

Authors :
Maria Luiza Bedran
Source :
American Journal of Physics. 70:406-408
Publication Year :
2002
Publisher :
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), 2002.

Abstract

We compare the Doppler effect of special relativity with the cosmological redshift of general relativity in order to clarify the difference between them. Some basic concepts of observational cosmology, such as the definitions of distance and cosmological parameters, are also presented.

Details

ISSN :
19432909 and 00029505
Volume :
70
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
American Journal of Physics
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........4384e7a6213a5c71f9580e43b446aa27