Friday, May 8, 2015

special relativity - Does photon's energy increase when i emit it from a train and get it reflected back?


Does photon's energy increase when i emit it from a train which is moving at comparable speed and get it reflected back by a mirror on a platform so that i can catch it again in the train? According to doppler effect the frequency of the photon for an observer standing near the mirror is greater to an observer in the train.So to the observer near the mirror, energy of the photon is greater than the energy observed by an observer in train.Similarly when it gets reflected back and reaches the train its frequency is larger than the initial frequency when observed by an observer in train .So obviously energy of photon is increased without doing any work....But it is against conservation of energy!!!!!!!!!!so can anyone help me with this problem ,please.....thanks in advance




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