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A rocket ship carrying passengers blasts off to go from New York to Los Angeles, a dista...

A rocket ship carrying passengers blasts off to go from New York to Los Angeles, a distance of about 5000 km. (a) How fast must the rocket ship go to have its own length shortened by 1%? (b) Ignore effects of general relativity and determine how much time the rocket ship’s clock and the ground-based clocks differ when the rocket ship arrives in Los Angeles.

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