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Chapter 37: Q88P (page 1151)
A Foron cruiser moving directly toward a Reptulian scout ship fires a decoy toward the scout ship. Relative to the scout ship, the speed of the decoy is and the speed of the Foron cruiser is . What is the speed of the decoy relative to the cruiser?
The speed of decoy relative to cruiser is .
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A spaceship of rest length 130 m races past a timing station at a speed of 0.740c. (a) What is the length of the spaceship as measured by the timing station? (b) What time interval will the station clock record between the passage of the front and back ends of the ship?
Sam leaves Venus in a spaceship headed to Mars and passes Sally, who is on Earth, with a relative speed of . (a) Each measures the Venus鈥揗ars voyage time. Who measures a proper time: Sam, Sally, or neither? (b) On the way, Sam sends a pulse of light to Mars. Each measures the travel time of the pulse. Who measures a proper time: Sam, Sally, or neither?
Another approach to velocity transformations. In Fig. 37-31, reference frames B and C move past reference frame A in the common direction of their axes. Represent the components of the velocities of one frame relative to another with a two-letter subscript. For example, is the component of the velocity of A relative to B. Similarly, represent the corresponding speed parameters with two-letter subscripts. For example, is the speed parameter corresponding to .
(a) Show that
Let represent the ratio , and let and represent similar ratios.
(b) Show that the relation
is true by deriving the equation of part (a) from it.
Figure 37-17 shows two clocks in stationary frame (they are synchronized in that frame) and one clock in moving frame . Clocks and read zero when they pass each other. When clocks and pass each other, (a) which clock has the smaller reading and (b) which clock measures a proper time?
Figure 37-21 shows one of four star cruisers that are in a race. As each cruiser passes the starting line, a shuttle craft leaves the cruiser and races toward the finish line. You, judging the race, are stationary relative to the starting and finish lines. The speeds vc of the cruisers relative to you and the speeds of the shuttle craft relative to their respective starships are, in that order, (1) 0.70c, 0.40c; (2) 0.40c, 0.70c; (3) 0.20c, 0.90c; (4) 0.50c, 0.60c. (a) Rank the shuttle craft according to their speeds relative to you, greatest first. (b) Rank the shuttle craft according to the distances their pilots measure from the starting line to the finish line, greatest first. (c) Each starship sends a signal to its shuttle craft at a certain frequency f0 as measured on board the starship. Rank the shuttle craft according to the frequencies they detect, greatest first.
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