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Author: Randall Knight, Brian Jones

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Firecrackers 1 and 2 are 600 m apart. You are standing exactly halfway between them. Your lab partner is 300 m on the other side of firecracker 1. You see two flashes of light, from the two explosions, at exactly the same instant of time. Define event 1 to be “firecracker 1 explodes” and event 2 to be “firecracker 2 explodes.” According to your lab partner based on measurements he or she makes, does event 1 occur before, after or at the same time as event 2? Explain

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Ch. 27 - Prob. 1CQ Ch. 27 - Frame S moves relative to frame S as shown in...Ch. 27 - a. Two balls move as shown in Figure Q27.3. What...Ch. 27 - A lighthouse beacon alerts ships to the danger of...Ch. 27 - As a racket passes the earth at 0.75c, it fires a...Ch. 27 - At the instant that a clock standing next to you...Ch. 27 - Prob. 8CQ Ch. 27 - Firecrackers 1 and 2 are 600 m apart. You are...Ch. 27 - Your clocks and calendars are synchronized with...Ch. 27 - Two trees are 600 m apart. You are standing...

Ch. 27 - Prob. 12CQ Ch. 27 - In Figure Q27.12, clocks C1 and C2, in frame S are...Ch. 27 - Prob. 14CQ Ch. 27 - Prob. 15CQ Ch. 27 - Prob. 16CQ Ch. 27 - Prob. 17CQ Ch. 27 - The rocket speeds shown in Figure Q27.18 are...Ch. 27 - Can a particle of mass m have total energy less...Ch. 27 - In your chemistry classes, you have probably...Ch. 27 - Lee and Leigh are twins. At their first birthday...Ch. 27 - A space cowboy wants to eject from his spacecraft...Ch. 27 - Prob. 23MCQ Ch. 27 - Prob. 24MCQ Ch. 27 - A particle moving at speed 0.40c has momentum p0....Ch. 27 - A particle moving at speed 0.40c has kinetic...Ch. 27 - A sprinter crosses the finish line of a race. The...Ch. 27 - A baseball pitcher can throw a ball with a speed...Ch. 27 - A boy on a skateboard coasts along at 5 m/s. He...Ch. 27 - A boat takes 3.0 hours to travel 30 km down a...Ch. 27 - When the moving sidewalk at the airport is broken,...Ch. 27 - Prob. 6P Ch. 27 - An out-of-control alien spacecraft is diving into...Ch. 27 - Prob. 8P Ch. 27 - A starship blasts past the earth at 2.0 103 m/s....Ch. 27 - You are flying at 0.99c with respect to Kara. At...Ch. 27 - Prob. 11P Ch. 27 - Bianca is standing at x = 600 m. Firecracker 1, at...Ch. 27 - You are standing at x = 9.0 km Lightning bolt 1...Ch. 27 - A light flashes at position x = 0 m. One...Ch. 27 - Jose is baking to the east. Lightning bolt 1...Ch. 27 - Your 1000-m-long starship has warning lights at...Ch. 27 - There is a lightbulb exactly halfway between the...Ch. 27 - Prob. 18P Ch. 27 - A cosmic ray travels 60 km through the earths...Ch. 27 - Prob. 20P Ch. 27 - At what speed relative to a laboratory does a...Ch. 27 - Prob. 22P Ch. 27 - Prob. 23P Ch. 27 - An astronaut travels to a star system 4.5 ly away...Ch. 27 - A subatomic particle moves through the laboratory...Ch. 27 - At what speed as a fraction of c, will a moving...Ch. 27 - Jill claims that her new rocket is 100 m long. As...Ch. 27 - Prob. 28P Ch. 27 - A muon travels 60 km through the atmosphere at a...Ch. 27 - Prob. 30P Ch. 27 - The Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) accelerates...Ch. 27 - Our Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 ly in diameter. A...Ch. 27 - The X-15 rocket-powered plane holds the record for...Ch. 27 - Youre standing on an asteroid when you see your...Ch. 27 - A rocket cruising past earth at 0.800c shoots a...Ch. 27 - Prob. 36P Ch. 27 - A base on Planet X fires a missile toward an...Ch. 27 - Prob. 38P Ch. 27 - Prob. 39P Ch. 27 - Prob. 40P Ch. 27 - Prob. 41P Ch. 27 - Prob. 42P Ch. 27 - What are the kinetic energy, the rest energy, and...Ch. 27 - Prob. 44P Ch. 27 - A quarter-pound hamburger with all the fixings has...Ch. 27 - Prob. 46P Ch. 27 - How fast much an electron move so that its total...Ch. 27 - Prob. 48P Ch. 27 - At what speed is a particle's kinetic energy twice...Ch. 27 - Prob. 50P Ch. 27 - Prob. 51P Ch. 27 - Prob. 52P Ch. 27 - The chemical energy of gasoline is 46 MJ/kg. If...Ch. 27 - A standard nuclear power plant generates 3.0 GW of...Ch. 27 - A firecracker explodes at x = 0 m, t = 0 s. A...Ch. 27 - Prob. 56GP Ch. 27 - Prob. 57GP Ch. 27 - A very fast-moving train car passes you, moving to...Ch. 27 - A spaceship heads directly toward an asteroid at a...Ch. 27 - Prob. 60GP Ch. 27 - Prob. 61GP Ch. 27 - Prob. 62GP Ch. 27 - A spaceship flies past an experimenter who...Ch. 27 - Marissas spaceship approaches Josephs at a speed...Ch. 27 - At a speed of 0.90c, a spaceship travels to a star...Ch. 27 - Prob. 66GP Ch. 27 - A rocket traveling at 0.500c sets out for the...Ch. 27 - A distant quasar is found to be moving away from...Ch. 27 - A space beacon on Planet Karma emits a pulse of...Ch. 27 - Two rockets, A and B, approach the earth from...Ch. 27 - Prob. 71GP Ch. 27 - What is the speed of an electron after being...Ch. 27 - What is the speed of a proton after being...Ch. 27 - Prob. 74GP Ch. 27 - What is the total energy, in MeV, of a. A proton...Ch. 27 - Prob. 76GP Ch. 27 - The sun radiates energy at the rate 3.8 1026 W....Ch. 27 - The radioactive element radium (Ra) decays by a...Ch. 27 - Prob. 79GP Ch. 27 - Prob. 80GP Ch. 27 - MCAT-Style Passage Problems Pion Therapy Subatomic...Ch. 27 - MCAT-Style Passage Problems Pion Therapy Subatomic...Ch. 27 - MCAT-Style Passage Problems Pion Therapy Subatomic...Ch. 27 - MCAT-Style Passage Problems Pion Therapy Subatomic...

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