Alice is sitting on her rectangular shaped sofa with dimensions of 2mx1m (ignore the other dimension), watching a movie that is 2 hours long. Bob is passing by Alice's window on his bike (2 m long) with speed of 0.5c. If the length of the sofa is parallel to the window, (a) What is measure of the area of the sofa according to Bob? (b) What is the length of Bob's Bike as measured by Alice? (c) How long is the movie according to Bob? (the window is really wide!!!)

Alice is sitting on her rectangular shaped sofa with dimensions of 2mx1m (ignore the other dimension), watching a movie that is 2 hours long. Bob is passing by Alice's window on his bike (2 m long) with speed of 0.5c. If the length of the sofa is parallel to the window, (a) What is measure of the area of the sofa according to Bob? (b) What is the length of Bob's Bike as measured by Alice? (c) How long is the movie according to Bob? (the window is really wide!!!)

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2. Alice is sitting on her rectangular shaped sofa with dimensions of 2mx1m (ignore the other
dimension), watching a movie that is 2 hours long. Bob is passing by Alice's window on
his bike (2 m long) with speed of 0.5c. If the length of the sofa is parallel to the window,
(a) What is measure of the area of the sofa according to Bob?
(b) What is the length of Bob's Bike as measured by Alice?
(c) How long is the movie according to Bob? (the window is really wide!!!)

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