(a) A person's "resting" heart rate is his or her normal heart rate measured while sitting still (and long after doing anything physically exerting). A nurse on Earth measures the resting heart rate of a patient as 62.0 beats/min. Imagine the patient travels aboard a spacecraft moving with a constant speed of 0.89c with respect to the Earth. What would be the patient's resting heart rate (in beats/min) as measured by someone else aboard the spacecraft?  beats/min (b) Imagine an observer on Earth could measure the resting heart rate of the patient traveling aboard the spacecraft. What rate (in beats/min) would the observer on Earth measure?  beats/min

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A person's "resting" heart rate is his or her normal heart rate measured while sitting still (and long after doing anything physically exerting). A nurse on Earth measures the resting heart rate of a patient as 62.0 beats/min. Imagine the patient travels aboard a spacecraft moving with a constant speed of 0.89c with respect to the Earth. What would be the patient's resting heart rate (in beats/min) as measured by someone else aboard the spacecraft?
 beats/min
(b)
Imagine an observer on Earth could measure the resting heart rate of the patient traveling aboard the spacecraft. What rate (in beats/min) would the observer on Earth measure?
 beats/min
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