Newly sprouted sunflowers can grow and another one is placed on a spacecraft traveling away from Earth at a speed of 0.94c. How tall is the sunflower on the spacecraft (as measure by someone on the spacecraft) when a person on Earth says theirs is 4.5 cm tall? How tall is the sunflower on the spacecraft (as measured by the person on Earth)? (Note: The direction of sunflower growth is the same as the direction that the spaceship is moving) a rate of 0.75 cm per day. One sunflower is left on Earth,

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22. Newly sprouted sunflowers can grow at a rate of 0.75 cm per day. One sunflower is left on Earth,
and another one is placed on a spacecraft traveling away from Earth at a speed of 0.94c. How
tall is the sunflower on the spacecraft (as measure by someone on the spacecraft) when a person
on Earth says theirs is 4.5 cm tall? How tall is the sunflower on the spacecraft (as measured by
the person on Earth)? (Note: The direction of sunflower growth is the same as the direction that
the spaceship is moving)
Transcribed Image Text:22. Newly sprouted sunflowers can grow at a rate of 0.75 cm per day. One sunflower is left on Earth, and another one is placed on a spacecraft traveling away from Earth at a speed of 0.94c. How tall is the sunflower on the spacecraft (as measure by someone on the spacecraft) when a person on Earth says theirs is 4.5 cm tall? How tall is the sunflower on the spacecraft (as measured by the person on Earth)? (Note: The direction of sunflower growth is the same as the direction that the spaceship is moving)
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