If you are traveling in a spaceship and observe that the gestation period of an elephant located in your instructor’s spaceship is 13 years (vs. “proper” time period of 22 months), then find your speed relative to your instructor’s ship.
If you are traveling in a spaceship and observe that the gestation period of an elephant...
You are traveling in a spaceship going at β=0.875 with respect to the earth. A friend in an identical spaceship travels past you at a high speed. He tells you that he measures his own ship to be 22.2 m long and he measures your ship to be 19.0 m long. According to your own observations, what is the speed (B) of your friend's ship?
Another interesting phenomenon due to relativity is time dilation. For a spaceship traveling at relativistic speeds, a clock on the ship will run slower than a non-moving clock on Earth. a) If you travel away from Earth at 0.6c for 1 hour, and return traveling at the same speed for 1 hour, how much time has elapsed on Earth? b) If you travel away from Earth at 0.999c for 1 year, and return traveling at the same speed for 1...
Another interesting phenomenon due to relativity is time dilation. For a spaceship traveling at relativistic speeds, a clock on the ship will run slower than a non-moving clock on Earth. a) If you travel away from Earth at 0.6c for 1 hour, and return traveling at the same speed for 1 hour, how much time has elapsed on Earth? b) If you travel away from Earth at 0.999c for 1 year, and return traveling at the same speed for 1...
1. Suppose that you are on a spaceship traveling at a constant velocity of 0.770c. While riding along inside the spaceship, you measure the length of your own ship (in the direction of motion) to be 100. meters long a. As you speed past the Earth at constant velocity, what do observers on Earth measure the length of your spaceship to be? A. 53.8 m B. 63.8 m C. 73.8 m D. 83.8 m E. 93.8 m b. As you...
Objects traveling at relativistic speeds will appear to a stationary observer as shorter, as- suming that it is parallel to the direction of its motion. Using the equation for Lorentz contraction, find the following, where c is the speed of light: a) A spaceship is traveling with a velocity 0.8c. If it is 200m long in its rest frame (when the object is not moving), how long do you observe it to be? Assume that you can see the entire...
9.1 Lorentz Contraction Objects traveling at relativistic speeds will appear to a stationary observer as shorter, as- suming that it is parallel to the direction of its motion. Using the equation for Lorentz contraction, find the following, where c is the speed of light: a) A spaceship is traveling with a velocity 0.8c. If it is 200m long in its rest frame (when the object is not moving), how long do you observe it to be? Assume that you can...
Please answer and explain how you got the result? A spaceship is traveling through deep space towards a space station and needs to make a course correction to go around a nebula. The captain orders the ship to travel 1.9.106 kilometers before turning 70 and traveling 1.7.106 kilometers before assuming the path towards the space station. If the captain had not ordered a course correction, what would have been the magnitude and direction of the path of the spaceship if...
You would like to slow down your aging process by traveling very fast relative to Earth on a spaceship. What is the required speed of the spaceship, if you plan to age 18 9 years while everybody else on Earth will age 26.2 years?
If you were in a spaceship traveling at a speed close to the speed of light (with respect to Earth) your notice that your mass is different than normal. some of your physical dimensions were smaller than normal your pulse rate is different than normal. None of these effects occur. More than one of these effects occur.
You are driving eastbound on the interstate at 70 mi/h . You observe that you are approaching a truck in your lane at a relative speed of 30 mi/h . How fast is the truck moving relative to the highway? If the truck were instead traveling at this speed in the westbound lane, what would be the relative velocity between you and the truck?