The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird may be the fastest nonresearchairplane ever built; it

Chapter 2, Problem 100

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The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird may be the fastest nonresearchairplane ever built; it traveled at 2200 miles/hour (983 m/s) and was in operation from 1966 to1990. Its length is 32.74 m. (a) By what percentagewould it appear to be length contracted while in fl ight?(b) How much time difference would occur on anatomic clock in the plane compared to a similar clockon Earth during a fl ight of the Blackbird over its rangeof 3200 km?

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