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Q: An armada of spaceships (at rest in frame A), of proper length Lo =1.10ly (ly is a unit of distance…

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Q: Which one of the following statements concerning the proper length of a meter stick is true?…

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Q: Suppose the speed of light were 1000 mi/h. You are traveling on a flight from Los Angeles to Boston,…

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Q: (a) What is the speed (in m/s) of spaceship B relative to spaceship A? (Enter your answer to at…

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Q: A spaceship travels at a constant speed from Earth to a planet orbiting another star. When the…

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Q: A spaceship travels to a distant star at relativistic speed. As measured by observers on Earth, the…

A: The velocity of spaceship is, v=dt=1.5 ly9.461×1015 m1 ly1.8 yr3.154×107 s1 yr=14.1915×1015…

Q: As measured in Earth’s frame of reference, the Earth and the Moon are 384,000 km apart. A spaceship…

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Q: If astronauts could travel at v = 0.902c, we on Earth would say it takes  (4.20/0.902) = 4.66 years…

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Q: During an experiment, a signal from a spaceship reached the ground station in five minutes. What was…

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Q: A spaceship travels at 0.722c relative to Earth. If the spaceship fires a small rocket in the…

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Q: According to the special theory of relativity, which of the following happens to the length of an…

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Q: spacecraft is moving relative to the Earth and an observer on Earth finds that between exactly…

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Q: A alien spacecraft has a speed of 0.74c with respect to Earth. The alien measure 39 hours for the…

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Q: A woman on a rocket traveling at 8.59c (with respect to Earthy observes a meteor come from in front…

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Q: A muon formed high in the Earth's atmosphere is measured by an observer on the Earth's surface to…

A: Given, Distance measured by an observer on the earth surface , l=3.43km=3430 m Speed measured by an…

Q: You are flying on a plane. Your friend is on the ground. The lights on the wing of the plane blink…

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Q: A spaceship travels at a constant speed from earth to a planet orbiting another star. When the…

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Q: GPS satellites orbit the earth at a speed of approximately 3900 m/s, compared to our speed on the…

A: Solution: Given: c = speed of light = 2.99792000 x 108 m/s  1 day = 24 h x 60 min/h x 60 s/min =…

Q: A spaceship is moving between two distant stars at 0.802c. To someone in the ship, the distance…

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Q: A space shuttle orbits earth at 5 miles/second. A clock moving past us at that speed will lose time…

A: The time dilation formula is given by: T0 = T / √(1 - (v^2/c^2)) where T0 is the time on the moving…

Q: A firecracker explodes at x = 0 m, t = 0 μs. A second explodes at x = 300 m, t = 2.0 μs. What is the…

A: The expression for the velocity is as follows: v=ΔxΔtv=300 m-0 m2 μs-0 μsv=1.5×108m/s…

Q: Team A's spaceship immediately blasts off at (t, x) = (0, 0) and travels at a constant speed until…

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Q: Someone in Earth's rest frame says that a spaceship's trip between two planets took 10.0 years,…

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Q: The star Epsilon Eridani is 10.4 light-years from Earth. Imagine a spaceship that travels from Earth…

A: distance of star from earth (L) = 10.4 ly Speed of spaceship (v) = 0.921 c Time taken by spaceship…

Q: A spaceship moves by Earth at 2.8×108 m/s. A satellite moves by Earth in the opposite direction at…

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Q: how far did it travel in its own frame of reference before hitting Earth?

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Q: A day on the Earth has 24 hours. How fast must a spacecraft travel so that the spacecraft clocks…

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Q: A rocket is travelling from earth through space at a speed of 2.7x10^8m/s. The pilot measures the…

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Q: A group of astronauts travel to a nearby star system and back to earth at a velocity of 0.98c (98%…

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A: speed of spaceship (v)= 0.85cSince the speed of the space ship is comparable to the speed of light,…

Q: A woman on a rocket traveling at 0.32c (with respect to Earth) observes a meteor come from in front…

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Q: You pitch a baseball to your friend from the back of a pick-up truck. You know that you pitch at 40…

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