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Determine the ratio β = v/c for the following: (a) A car traveling 95 km/h. (b) A commer...

Determine the ratio β = v/c for the following: (a) A car traveling 95 km/h. (b) A commercial jet airliner traveling 240 m/s. (c) A supersonic airplane traveling at Mach 2.3 (Mach number = v/vsound). (d) The space station, traveling 27,000 km/h. (e) An electron traveling 25 cm in 2 ns. (f) A proton traveling across a nucleus (10-14 m) in 0.35 × 10-22 s.

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