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    This document contains a physics quiz with three problems related to special relativity. Problem 1 involves time dilation between twins where one travels in a spaceship at 0.6c for a year. Problems 2 and 3 involve length contraction and reference frames moving at relativistic speeds. Problem 2 looks at events of an egg being laid and a chicken being born on a spaceship and observers on the ground. Problem 3 examines the relative speeds and lengths of two identical spaceships moving at 0.8c in opposite directions as measured from their own frames and from the ground. Students are asked to justify their answers.

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    This document contains a physics quiz with three problems related to special relativity. Problem 1 involves time dilation between twins where one travels in a spaceship at 0.6c for a year. Problems 2 and 3 involve length contraction and reference frames moving at relativistic speeds. Problem 2 looks at events of an egg being laid and a chicken being born on a spaceship and observers on the ground. Problem 3 examines the relative speeds and lengths of two identical spaceships moving at 0.8c in opposite directions as measured from their own frames and from the ground. Students are asked to justify their answers.

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    This document contains a physics quiz with three problems related to special relativity. Problem 1 involves time dilation between twins where one travels in a spaceship at 0.6c for a year. Problems 2 and 3 involve length contraction and reference frames moving at relativistic speeds. Problem 2 looks at events of an egg being laid and a chicken being born on a spaceship and observers on the ground. Problem 3 examines the relative speeds and lengths of two identical spaceships moving at 0.8c in opposite directions as measured from their own frames and from the ground. Students are asked to justify their answers.

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    This document contains a physics quiz with three problems related to special relativity. Problem 1 involves time dilation between twins where one travels in a spaceship at 0.6c for a year. Problems 2 and 3 involve length contraction and reference frames moving at relativistic speeds. Problem 2 looks at events of an egg being laid and a chicken being born on a spaceship and observers on the ground. Problem 3 examines the relative speeds and lengths of two identical spaceships moving at 0.8c in opposite directions as measured from their own frames and from the ground. Students are asked to justify their answers.

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    PHYSICS 2D PROF.

    HIRSCH

    QUIZ 1

    FALL QUARTER 2009 OCTOBER 2nd, 2009


    L = Lp /# ; c = 3 % 10 8 m / s

    Formulas: Time dilation; Length contraction : "t = #"t ' $ # "t p ; Lorentz transformation : x ' = " ( x # vt ) 1 y' = y , z' = z "= 1 # v 2 /c 2 t ' = " ( t # vx / c 2 )
    Velocity transformation : ux ! v ux' = 1 ! ux v / c 2 uy uy' = " (1 ! ux v / c 2 ) Spacetime interval : ("s) 2 = (c"t ) 2 - ["x 2 + "y 2 + "z 2 ]

    x = " ( x ' + vt ') y = y', z = z' t = " ( t ' + vx ' / c 2 )

    ux = uy =

    ux' +v 1 + ux ' v / c 2 uy '

    " (1 + ux ' v / c 2 )

    Justify all your answers to all problems Problem 1 (10 points) spaceship twin B twin A When twins A and B reach their 20th birthday, twin B departs on a spaceship going at speed 0.6c. When the twins reach their 21st birthday according each to their own clocks, they light up candles to celebrate (twin A on the earth, twin B on the spaceship). (a) How old is twin B when she lights up her candle, as shown by clocks on the earth's reference frame? (b) How old is twin A when the light from twin B's candle first reaches him? (c) How old is twin B when the light from twin A's candle first reaches her? Note: assume the effects of accelerating the spaceship from rest to speed 0.6c can be neglected, so you can deal with inertial frames only. v=0.6c

    PHYSICS 2D PROF. HIRSCH

    QUIZ 1

    FALL QUARTER 2009 OCTOBER 2nd, 2009

    Problem 2 (10 points)

    v
    chicken is born 100m ground A hen lays an egg at the front end of a 100 m long spaceship. 0.1s later (according to clocks on the spaceship), a chicken is born at the back end of this spaceship (1s=10-6s). The spaceship is moving at speed v with respect to the ground. (a) Find how fast the spaceship has to be moving so that for an observer on the ground the chicken is born simultaneously with the hen laying the egg. Give your answer in terms of c, i.e. find v/c. (b) Find the spacetime interval for these events in the spaceship reference frame. Is it timelike or spacelike? (c) Find the spacetime interval for these events in the ground reference frame. Hint: define carefully your event coordinates (x1',t1') and (x2',t2') in the spaceship reference frame, then use the Lorentz transformation to find the coordinates of these events in the ground coordinates. Problem 3 (10 points) 0.8c 200m ground Two identical spaceships are moving in opposite directions, each of them moves at speed 0.8c with respect to the ground. The length of the spaceships measured in their own reference frame (proper length) is 200m. (a) What is the speed of one ship relative to the other ship? (b) What is the length of one ship as measured from the ground? (c) What is the length of one ship as measured from the other ship? 0.8c 200m hen lays egg

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