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A spaceship of rest length 120 m passes a laboratory timing stationin 1.0 microseconds measured on the timing station clock.
(a) What is the speed of the spaceship in the laboratoryframe?
m/s
(b) What is the Lorentz-contracted length of the spaceship in thelaboratory frame?
m

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Physics: Principles with Applications
7th Edition, 2013
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ISBN: 9780321625922

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