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Chapter 29 Problem 18P

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Problem 18P

•• BIO Newly sprouted sunflowers can grow at the rate of 0.30 in. per day. One such sunflower is left on Earth, and an identical one is placed on a spacecraft that is traveling away from Earth with a speed of 0.94c. How tall is the sunflower on the spacecraft when a person on Earth says his is 2.0 in. high?

Solution

Step 1 of 2:-

a)

Here, we have to find how tall is the sunflower in the spacecraft, when a person on earth says that his flower is 2 m.

Given that,

.

Grow rate is 0.30 inch in a day.

Height in earth frame after a time is 2 inch.

.

We know that,

Where,

is the proper time.

   

   

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Title Physics with MasteringPhysics 4 
Author James S. Walker
ISBN 9780321541635

•• BIO Newly sprouted sunflowers can grow at the rate of

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