UNIVERSITY PHYSICS, VOL.3 (OER)17th EditionOpenStax Publisher: XANEDUISBN: 2810020283905
UNIVERSITY PHYSICS, VOL.3 (OER)
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Problem 5.1CYU:
Check Your Understanding Explain how special relativity differs from general relativity.Problem 5.2CYU:
Check Your Understanding What is if v=0.650c?Problem 5.3CYU:
Check Your Understanding a. A particle travels at 1.90108m/sand lives 2.10108swhen at rest relative...Problem 5.4CYU:
Check Your Understanding A particle is traveling through Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 0.750c. To...Problem 5.5CYU:
Check Your Understanding Shaw that if a time increment dt elapses for an observer who sees the...Problem 5.6CYU:
Check Your Understanding Distances along a direction perpendicular to the relative motion of the two...Problem 5.7CYU:
Check Your Understanding Suppose a space probe moves away from Earth at a speed 0.350c. It sends a...Problem 5.8CYU:
Check Your Understanding What is the momentum of an electron traveling at a speed 0.985c? The rest...Problem 5.9CYU:
Check Your Understanding What is the kinetic energy of an electron if its speed is 0.992c?Problem 1CQ:
Which of Einstein’s postulates of special relativity includes a concept that does not ?t with the...Problem 3CQ:
When you are flying in a commercial jet, it may appear to you that the airplane is stationary and...Problem 4CQ:
(a) Does motion affect the rate of a clock as measured by an observer moving with it? (b) Does...Problem 5CQ:
To whom does the elapsed time for a process seem to be longer, an observer moving relative to the...Problem 6CQ:
(a) How could you travel far into the future of Earth without aging significantly? (b) Could this...Problem 7CQ:
To whom does an object seem greater in length, an observer moving with the object or an observer...Problem 8CQ:
Relativistic effects such as time dilation and length contraction are present for cars and...Problem 9CQ:
Suppose an astronaut is moving relative to Earth at a significant fraction of the speed of light....Problem 10CQ:
Explain the meaning of the terms "red shift" and ' 'blue shift" as they relate to the relativistic...Problem 11CQ:
What happens to the relativistic Doppler effect when relative velocity is zero? Is this the expected...Problem 12CQ:
Is the relativistic Doppler effect consistent with the classical Doppler effect in the that is...Problem 13CQ:
All galaxies farther away than about exhibit a red shift in their emitted light that is proportional...Problem 15CQ:
Is it possible for an external force to be acting on a system and relativistic momentum to be...Problem 16CQ:
How are the classical laws of conservation of energy and conservation of mass modified by modern...Problem 17CQ:
What happens to the mass of water in a pot when it cools, assuming no molecules escape or are added?...Problem 18CQ:
Consider a thought experiment. You place an expanded balloon of air on weighing scales outside in...Problem 19CQ:
The mass of the fuel in a nuclear reactor decreases by an observable amount as it puts out energy....Problem 20CQ:
We know that the velocity of an object with mass has an upper limit of c. Is there an upper limit on...Problem 22CQ:
If you use an Earth based telescope to project a laser beam onto the moon, you can move the spot...Problem 23P:
What is if (b) IfProblem 24P:
What is if IfProblem 25P:
Particles called mesons are produced by accelerator beams. If these particles travel at and live...Problem 26P:
Suppose a particle called a kaon is created by cosmic radiation striking the atmosphere. It moves by...Problem 27P:
A neutral meson is a particle that can be created by accelerator beams. If one such particle lives...Problem 28P:
A neutron lives 900 s when at rest relative to a observer. How fast is the neutron moving relative...Problem 29P:
If relativistic effects are to be less than then must be less than 1.01. At what relative velocity...Problem 30P:
If relativistic effects are to be less than then must be less than 1.03. At what relative velocity...Problem 31P:
A spaceship, 200 m long as. seen on board, moves by the Earth at 0.970c. What is its length as...Problem 32P:
How fast would a 6.0 m-long sports car have to be going past you in order for it to appear only 5.5...Problem 33P:
(a) How far does the muon in Example 5.3 travel according to the earthbound observer? (b) How far...Problem 34P:
(a) How long would the mum] in Example 5.3 have lived as observed on Earth if its velocity was....Problem 35P:
Unreasonable Results A spaceship is heading directly toward Earth at a velocity of 0.800c. The...Problem 36P:
Describe the following physical occurrences as events, that is, in the form (x, y, z, t): (a) A...Problem 37P:
Describe what happens to the angle and therefore to the transformed axes in Figure 5.17, as the...Problem 38P:
Describe the shape of the world line on a space-time diagram of (a) an object that remains at rest...Problem 39P:
A man standing still at a train station watches two boys throwing a baseball in a moving train....Problem 40P:
When observed from the sun at a particular instant, Earth and Mars appear to move in opposite...Problem 41P:
A man is running on a straight road perpendicular to a train track and away from the track at a...Problem 42P:
A man is running on a straight road that makes with the train track. The man is running in the...Problem 43P:
In a frame at rest with respect to the billiard table, a billiard ball of mass m moving with speed v...Problem 44P:
In a frame at rest with respect to the billiard table, two billiard balls of same mass m are moving...Problem 45P:
In a frame S, two events are observed: event 1: a pion is created at rest at the origin and event 2:...Problem 46P:
If two spaceships are heading directly toward each other at 0.800c, at what speed must a canister be...Problem 47P:
Two planets are on a collision course, heading directly toward each other at 0.250c. A spaceship...Problem 48P:
When a missile is shot from one spaceship toward another, it leaves the first at 0.950c and...Problem 49P:
What is the relative velocity of two spaceships if one fires a missile at the other at 0.750c and...Problem 50P:
Prove that for any relative velocity v between two observers, a beam of light sent from one to the...Problem 51P:
Show that for any relative velocity v between two observers, a beam of light projected by one...Problem 52P:
A highway patrol officer uses a device that measures the speed of vehicles by bouncing radar off...Problem 55P:
(a) Find the momentum of a asteroid heading towards Earth at 30.0 km/s. (b) Find the ratio of this...Problem 56P:
(a) What is the momentum of a 2000-kg satellite orbiting at 4.00 km/s? (b) Find the ratio of this...Problem 57P:
What is the velocity of an electron that has a momentum of 3.04×10-21?kg·m/s? Note that you must...Problem 58P:
Find the velocity of a proton that has a momentum ofProblem 59P:
What is the rest energy of an electron, given its mass is Give your answer in joules and MeV.Problem 61P:
If the rest energies of a proton and a neutron (the two constituents of nuclei) are 938.3 and 939.6...Problem 62P:
The Big Bang that began the universe is estimated to have released of energy. How many stars could...Problem 63P:
A supernova explosion of a star produces of energy. (a) How many kilograms of mass are converted to...Problem 64P:
(a) Using data from Potential Energy Of a System...Problem 65P:
Using data from Potential Energy of a System...Problem 66P:
There is approximately of energy available from fusion of hydrogen in the world's oceans. (a) If of...Problem 67P:
A muon has a rest mass energy of 105.7 MeV, and it decays into an electron and a massless particle....Problem 68P:
A meson is a particle that decays into a muon and a massless particle. The meson has a rest mass...Problem 69P:
(a) Calculate the relativistic kinetic energy of a 1000-kg car moving at 30.0 m/s if the speed of...Problem 70P:
Alpha decay is nuclear decay in which a helium nucleus is emitted. If the helium nucleus has a mass...Problem 71P:
(a) Beta decay is nuclear decay in which an electron is emitted. If the electron is given 0.750 MeV...Problem 74AP:
Unreasonable Results (a) Find the value of required for the following situation. An earthbound...Problem 75AP:
(a) How long does it take the astronaut in Example 5.5 to travel 4.30 ly at 0.99944c (as measured by...Problem 76AP:
(a) How fast would an athlete need to be running for a race to look 100 yd long? (b) Is the answer...Problem 77AP:
(a) Find the value of for the following situation. An astronaut measures the length of his spaceship...Problem 78AP:
A clock in a spaceship tuns one-tenth the rate at which an identical clock on Earth runs. What is...Problem 79AP:
An astronaut has a heartbeat rate of 66 beats per minute as measured during his physical exam on...Problem 80AP:
A spaceship (A) is moving at speed c/2 with to another spaceship (B). Observers in A and B set their...Problem 81AP:
Same two observers as in the preceding exercise, but now we look at two events occurring in...Problem 82AP:
Same two observers as in the preceding exercises. A rod of length 1 m is laid out on the x-axis in...Problem 83AP:
An observer at origin of inertial frame S sees a flashbulb go off at and at time At what time and...Problem 84AP:
An observer sees two events 1.5108s apart at a separation of 800 m. How fast must a second observer...Problem 85AP:
An observer standing by the railroad tracks sees two bolts of lightning strike the ends of a...Problem 86AP:
Two astronomical events are observed from Earth to occur at a time of 1 s apart and a distance...Problem 87AP:
Two astronomical events are observed to occur at a time of 0.30 s apart and a distance separation of...Problem 88AP:
A spacecraft starts from being at rest at the origin and accelerates at a constant rate g, as seen...Problem 89AP:
(a) All but the closest galaxies are receding from our own Milky Way Galaxy. If a galaxy 12.0x109ly...Problem 90AP:
Suppose a spaceship heading straight toward the at 0.750c can shoot a canister at 0.500c relative to...Problem 92AP:
If a spaceship is approaching the Earth at 0.100c and a message capsule is sent toward it at 0.100c...Problem 93AP:
(a) Suppose the speed of light were only 3000 m/s. A jet fighter moving toward a target on the...Problem 94AP:
If a galaxy moving away from the Earth has a speed of 1000 km/s and emits 656 nm light...Problem 95AP:
A space probe speeding towards the nearest star moves at 0.250c and sends radio information at a...Problem 96AP:
Near the center of our galaxy, hydrogen gas is moving directly away from us in its orbit about a...Problem 97AP:
(a) Calculate the speed of a particle of dust that has the same momentum as a proton moving at...Problem 98AP:
(a) Calculate for a proton that has a momentum of (b) What is its speed? Such protons form a rare...Problem 99AP:
Show that the relativistic form of Newton’s second law is (a) F=mdudt1( 1 u 2 / c 2 )3/2 (b) Find...Problem 100AP:
A positron is an antimatter version of the electron, having exactly the same mass. When a positron...Problem 101AP:
What is the kinetic energy in MeV of a meson that lives s as measured in the laboratory, and when at...Problem 102AP:
Find the kinetic energy in MeV of a neutron with a measured life span of 2065 s, given its rest...Problem 103AP:
(a) Show that that at large velocities This means that at large velocities(b) Is when as for the...Problem 104AP:
One cosmic ray neuron has a velocity of 0.250c relative to the Earth. (a) What is the neutron's...Problem 105AP:
What is for a proton having amass energy of 938.3 MeV accelerated through an effective potential of...Problem 106AP:
(a) What is the effective accelerating potential for electrons at the Stanford Linear Accelerator,...Problem 107AP:
(a) Using data from Potential Energy of a System...Problem 108AP:
(a) Calculate the energy released by the destruction of 1.00 kg of mass. (b) How many kilograms...Problem 109AP:
A Van de Graaff accelerator utilizes a 50.0 MV potential difference to accelerate charged particles...Problem 110AP:
Suppose you use an average of 500 k W·h of electric energy per month in your home. (a) How long...Problem 111AP:
(a) A nuclear power plant converts energy from nuclear fission into electricity with an efficiency...Problem 112AP:
Nuclear-powered rockets were researched for some years before safety concerns paramount. (a) What...Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
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