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A spaceship of rest length 160 m races past a timing station at aspeed of 0.800c.
(a) What is the length of the spaceship as measured by the timingstation?
m
(b) What time interval will the station clock record between thepassage of the front and back ends of the ship?
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Physics: Principles with Applications
7th Edition, 2013
Giancoli
ISBN: 9780321625922

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Learning Goal: To understand length contraction and timedilation.

An inertial frame of reference is one in which Newton's laws hold.Any frame of reference that moves at a constant speed relative toan inertial frame of reference is also an inertial frame. Theproper length l_0 of an object is defined to be the length of theobject as measured in the object's rest frame. If the length of theobject is measured in any other inertial frame, moving with speed urelative to the object's rest frame (in a direction parallel tol_0), the resulting length l is given by the length contractionequation

l = l_0\sqrt{1-\frac{u^2}{c^2}} ,

where c is the speed of light. Similarly, if two events occur atthe same spatial point in a particular reference frame, and anobserver at rest in this frame measures the time interval betweenthese two events, the time interval so measured is defined to bethe proper time Delta t_0. When the time interval is measured inany other inertial frame, again moving with speed u relative to thefirst frame, the resulting time interval Delta t is given by thetime dilation equation

\Delta t = \frac{\Delta t_0}{\sqrt{1-\frac{u^2}{c^2}}} .

a. Suppose that you measure the length of a spaceship, at restrelative to you, to be 400 \rm m. How long will you measure it tobe if it flies past you at a speed of u = 0.75c?
Express the length l in meters to three significant figures.

b. The spaceship from Part A has a large clock attached to itsside. This clock ran at the same rate as your watch when you werein the same reference frame. How much time Delta t will pass onyour watch as 80 \rm s passes on the clock attached to theship?
Express your answer in seconds to three significant figures.

c. Two spaceships, named A and B, are flying toward each other withrelative speed 0.800c. If the captain of ship A fires a missile,counts 10.0 \rm s on his watch, and then fires a second missile,how much time Delta t will the captain of ship B measure to havepassed between the firing of the two missiles?
Express your answer in seconds to three significant figures.

d. The captain of ship B knows that ship A uses 2-m-long missiles.She measures the length of the first missile, once it has finishedaccelerating, and finds it to be only 0.872 \rm m long. What is thespeed u of the missile, relative to ship B?
Express your answer in meters per second to three significantfigures. Use c = 3 \times 10^8 \; \rm m/s.

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Q. Light at the front of a spaceship of proper length 1.0 kmflashes and a light at the rear flashes 4.0 ร‚ยตs later in thespaceship frame. The ship moves at 0.98c along the +X direction inframe S. What re the space and time intervals measured in S?

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A spaceship is 1600 m long when it is at rest. When it istraveling at a certain constant speed its length is measured byexternal observers and it is found to be 630 m. In the kitchen ofthe spaceship the chef sets the oven timer for 1.65 hours to makeroast beef. How much time does the roast beef spend in the ovenwhen measured by external observers at rest?

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