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EBK MODERN PHYSICS
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Problem 4Q:
Does the Michelson–Morley experiment show that the ether does not exist or that it is merely...Problem 5Q:
Suppose we made a pair of shears in which the cutting blades were many orders of magnitude longer...Problem 6Q:
Light travels through water at a speed of about 2.25 × 108 m/s. Is it possible for a particle to...Problem 7Q:
Is it possible to have particles that travel at the speed of light? What does Eq. 2.36 require of...Problem 9Q:
Einstein developed the relativity theory after trying unsuccessfully to imagine how a light beam...Problem 11Q:
Does the Moon’s disk appear to be a different size to a space traveler approaching it at v = 0.99c,...Problem 12Q:
According to the time dilation effect, would the life expectancy of someone who lives at the equator...Problem 13Q:
Criticize the following argument. “Here is a way to travel faster than light. Suppose a star is 10...Problem 14Q:
Is it possible to synchronize clocks that are in motion relative to each other? Try to design a...Problem 15Q:
Suppose event A causes event B. To one observer, event A comes before event B. Is it possible that...Problem 17Q:
“In special relativity, mass and energy are equivalent.” Discuss this statement and give examples.
Problem 18Q:
Which is more massive, an object at low temperature or the same object at high temperature? A spring...Problem 1P:
You are piloting a small airplane in which you want to reach a destination that is 750 km due north...Problem 2P:
A moving sidewalk 95 m in length carries passengers at a speed of 0.53 m/s. One passenger has a...Problem 6P:
An astronaut must journey to a distant planet, which is 300 light-years from Earth. What speed will...Problem 7P:
The proper lifetime of a certain particle is 120.0 ns. (a) How long does it live in the laboratory...Problem 8P:
High-energy particles are observed in laboratories by photographing the tracks they leave in certain...Problem 10P:
Two spaceships approach the Earth from opposite directions. According to an observer on the Earth,...Problem 11P:
Rocket A leaves a space station with a speed of 0.811c. Later, rocket B leaves in the same direction...Problem 12P:
One of the strongest emission lines observed from distant galaxies comes from hydrogen and has a...Problem 14P:
Three rods are joined to form a 45–45–90 triangle, which is placed at rest in the xy plane with its...Problem 15P:
In the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (an accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New...Problem 17P:
Observer O fires a light beam in the y direction (vy = c). Use the Lorentz velocity transformation...Problem 18P:
A light bulb at point x in the frame of reference of O blinks on and off at intervals Δt = t2 − t1....Problem 19P:
A neutral K meson at rest decays into two π mesons, which travel in opposite directions along the x...Problem 20P:
A rod in the reference frame of observer O makes an angle of 34° with the x axis. According to...Problem 21P:
Two events occur at locations separated by a distance of 49.5 m and by a time interval of 0.528 μs,...Problem 22P:
According to observer O, a blue flash occurs at xb = 10.4 m when tb = 0.124 μs, and a red flash...Problem 23P:
Suppose the speed of light were 1000 mi/h. You are traveling on a flight from Los Angeles to Boston,...Problem 24P:
Suppose rocket traveler Amelia has a clock made on Earth. Every year on her birthday she sends a...Problem 25P:
Suppose Amelia traveled at a speed of 0.80c to a star that (according to Casper on Earth) is 8.0...Problem 26P:
Make a drawing similar to Figure 2.20 showing the world-lines of Casper and Amelia from Casper’s...Problem 27P:
Two twins make a round-trip journey from Earth to a star that is 12 light-years distant. Alice...Problem 28P:
Agnes makes a round trip at a constant speed to a star that is 16 light-years distant from Earth,...Problem 29P:
(a) Using the relativistically correct final velocities for the collision shown in Figure 2.21a ,...Problem 30P:
Find the momentum, kinetic energy, and total energy of a proton moving at a speed of 0.835c.
Problem 35P:
Use Equations 2.32 and 2.36 to derive Equation 2.39.
Problem 36P:
By carrying the binomial expansion one term farther, find the next term after in the classical...Problem 37P:
(a) According to observer O, a certain particle has a momentum of 1256 MeV/c and a total...Problem 38P:
An electron is moving at a speed of 0.85c. By how much must its kinetic energy increase to raise its...Problem 40P:
Find the kinetic energy of an electron moving at a speed of (a) v = 1.00 × 10−4c; (b) v = 1.00 ×...Problem 41P:
An electron and a proton are each accelerated starting from rest through a potential difference of...Problem 44P:
A π meson of rest energy 139.6 MeV moving at a speed of 0.921c collides with and sticks to a proton...Problem 45P:
An electron and a positron (an antielectron) make a head-on collision, each moving at v = 0.99999c....Problem 46P:
It is desired to create a particle of mass 9460 MeV/c2 in a head-on collision between a proton and...Problem 47P:
A particle of rest energy mc2 is moving with speed v in the positive x direction. The particle...Problem 48P:
Let’s consider a different approach to Example 2.21, in which two protons collide to form an...Problem 49P:
In the muon decay experiment discussed in Section 2.9 as a verification of time dilation, the muons...Problem 50P:
Derive the relativistic expression p2/2K = m + K/2c2, which is plotted in Figure 2.28a.
Problem 51P:
Suppose we want to send an astronaut on a round trip to visit a star that is 200 light- years...Problem 53P:
Observer O sees a red flash of light at the origin at t = 0 and a blue flash of light at x = 3.65 km...Problem 54P:
Several spacecraft leave a space station at the same time. Relative to an observer on the station, A...Problem 55P:
Observer O sees a light turn on at x = 524 m when t = 1.52 μs. Observer O′ is in motion at a speed...Problem 56P:
Suppose an observer O measures a particle of mass m moving in the x direction to have speed v,...Problem 60P:
A beam of 2.14 × 1011 electrons/s moving at a speed of 0.813c strikes a block of copper that is used...Problem 61P:
An electron moving at a speed of vi = 0.960c in the positive x direction collides with another...Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
Chapter 1 - Some Deficiencies Of Classical PhysicsChapter 2 - The Special Theory Of RelativityChapter 3 - The Particle-like Properties Of Electromagnetic RadiationChapter 4 - The Wavelike Properties Of ParticlesChapter 5 - The Schrödinger EquationChapter 6 - The Rutherford-bohr Model Of The AtomChapter 7 - The Hydrogen Atom In Wave MechanicsChapter 8 - Many-electron AtomsChapter 9 - Molecular StructureChapter 10 - Statistical Physics
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