• A) Find the value of y for the following situation. An astronaut measures the length of her spaceship to be 25.0 m, while an Earth- bound observer measures it to be 100 m. • (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?

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• A) Find the value of y for the following
situation. An astronaut measures the length of
her spaceship to be 25.0 m, while an Earth-
bound observer measures it to be 100 m.
(b) What is unreasonable about this result?
(c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or
inconsistent?
• Solution (a) y = 0.250. (b)It is unreasonable
because the value of y is less than one. This opposed
the idea of length contraction. © It will give imaginary
value. The observer must measure the ship 25m, while
the astronaut measures her ship 100m.
Transcribed Image Text:special relativity • A) Find the value of y for the following situation. An astronaut measures the length of her spaceship to be 25.0 m, while an Earth- bound observer measures it to be 100 m. (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent? • Solution (a) y = 0.250. (b)It is unreasonable because the value of y is less than one. This opposed the idea of length contraction. © It will give imaginary value. The observer must measure the ship 25m, while the astronaut measures her ship 100m.
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