A particle having a lifetime of 50 ms is moving at a velocity of 0.98c. How long does it live?
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- A particle whizzes through your lab at a speed of 0.74c. Your detectors determine that its lifetime was 1.1ns. Find its lifetime in the particle's reference frame. Please give your answer in nanoseconds.The measured mean lifetime of an elementary particle when it is at rest in the lab is measured to be 2.6x10-8 s. If the particle is observed while traveling at a speed v=0.9 c with respect to the lab. What will be the value of the measured mean lifetime while the particle is moving?A particle known as a pion lives for a short time before breaking apart into other particles. Suppose a pion is moving at a speed of 0.990c, and an observer who is stationary in a laboratory measures the pion's lifetime to be 2.8 x 10-8 s. (a) What is the lifetime according to a hypothetical person who is riding along with the pion? (b) According to this hypothetical person, how far does the laboratory move Before the pion breaks apart? (a) Number (b) Number i Units Units
- 12. (a) A particle is traveling through the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 0.750c. To an earth bound observer, the distance it travels is 2.5km. How far does the particle travel in the particle's frame of reference? (b) Calculate the momentum of an electron traveling at a speed 0.985c? The rest mass of the electron is 9.11 X 10-31 kg.A particle known as a pion lives for a short time before breaking apart into other particles. Suppose a pion is moving at a speed of 0.992c, and an observer who is stationary in a laboratory measures the pion's lifetime to be 2.7 x 10-8 s. (a) What is the lifetime according to a hypothetical person who is riding along with the pion? (b) According to this hypothetical person, how far does the laboratory move before the pion breaks apart? (a) Number (b) Number i Units UnitsConsider a proton moving with speed = 0.94 c. (c is the speed of light.) What is the kinetic energy, in MeV? (in MeV) OA: 1160 OB: 1449 OC: 1812 OD: 2265 OE: 2831 OF: 3539 OG: 4423 OH: 5529
- In its own reference frame, a box has the shape of a cube 2.0 m on a side. This box is loaded onto the flat floor of a spaceship and the spaceship then flies past us with a horizontal speed of 0.80c. What is the volume of the box as we observe it?The distance from earth to the center of our galaxy is about 24,000 ly (1 ly = 1 light year = 9.47 x 1015 m), as measured by an earth- based observer. A spaceship is to make this journey at a speed of 0.9990c. According to a clock on board the spaceship, how long will it take to make the trip? Express your answer in years. (1 yr is equal to 3.16 x 107 s.) Number UnitsA particle known as a pion lives for a short time before breaking apart into other particles. Suppose a pion is moving at a speed of 0.988c, and an observer who is stationary in a laboratory measures the pion's lifetime to be 3.3 x 10-8 s. (a) What is the lifetime according to a hypothetical person who is riding along with the pion? (b) According to this hypothetical person, how far does the laboratory move before the pion breaks apart? (a) Number (b) Number i Units Units # +