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Chapter 29 Problem 32P

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Problem 32P

•• You and a friend travel through space in identical spaceships. Your friend informs you that he has made some length measurements and that his ship is 150 m long but that yours is only 120 m long. From your point of view, (a) how long is your friend’s ship, (b) how long is your ship, and (c) what is the speed of your friend’s ship relative to yours?

Solution

Step 1 of 4

a)

Here, we have to find the length of your friend’s spaceship.

Given that,

The length of my friend’s spaceship in his frame is,

.

Two spaceships are identical and he measured the length of my spaceship as,

.

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

•• You and a friend travel through space in identical

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