Part 1: Particle lifetime - find the speed What is the SPEED of a beam of tauons if their average lifetime is measured to be 7.6x10-13 s? At rest, their lifetime is 2.9x10-13 s. 0.92433625 ✔xC Part 2: Passing spaceships You and a friend pass each other 1.03562 x spaceships that are each traveling 0.26c relative to the other. Your friend takes a nap and you decide time how long your friend's Unbeknownst to you, another person on your friend's ship saw you timing your friend's nap and decided to time how 1.035616 h long Part 3: How fast to reach a certain ratio? you were timing your friend's nap takes. In your frame, nap. In that person's frame (which is the your friend's nap takes 1 h. How long was your friend's nap in their frame? same as your friend's frame), how long were you timing your friend's nap?

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Part 1: Particle lifetime - find the speed
What is the SPEED of a beam of tauons if their average lifetime is measured to be 7.6x10-13 s? At rest, their lifetime is 2.9x10-13 s.
0.92433625
Part 2: Passing spaceships
You and a friend pass each other
1.03562x
spaceships that are each traveling 0.26c relative to the other. Your friend takes a nap and you decide time how long your friend's nap takes. In your frame, your friend's
Unbeknownst to you, another person on your friend's ship saw you timing your friend's nap and decided to time how
1.035616 h
long
Part 3: How fast to reach a certain ratio?
you were timing
your friend's nap. In
that person's frame
(which is the
nap takes 1 h. How
same as your friend's
long
was
your
friend's nap
in their frame?
frame), how long were you timing your friend's nap?
Transcribed Image Text:Part 1: Particle lifetime - find the speed What is the SPEED of a beam of tauons if their average lifetime is measured to be 7.6x10-13 s? At rest, their lifetime is 2.9x10-13 s. 0.92433625 Part 2: Passing spaceships You and a friend pass each other 1.03562x spaceships that are each traveling 0.26c relative to the other. Your friend takes a nap and you decide time how long your friend's nap takes. In your frame, your friend's Unbeknownst to you, another person on your friend's ship saw you timing your friend's nap and decided to time how 1.035616 h long Part 3: How fast to reach a certain ratio? you were timing your friend's nap. In that person's frame (which is the nap takes 1 h. How same as your friend's long was your friend's nap in their frame? frame), how long were you timing your friend's nap?
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