An astronaut, taking his first flight on a space shuttle, brings along his favorite miniature grandfather clock. At launch, the clock and his digital wristwatch are synchronized, and the grandfather clock is pointed in the direction of the shuttle’s nose. During the boost phase, the shuttle has an upward acceleration whose magnitude is several times the value of the gravitational acceleration at the Earth’s surface. As the shuttle reaches a constant cruising speed after completion of the boost phase, the astronaut compares his grandfather clock’s time to that of his watch. Are the timepieces still synchronized? If not, which is ahead of the other? Explain.
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