A particle is traveling through the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of
. To an Earth-bound observer, the distance it travels is 2.50 km. How far does the particle travel in the particle’s frame of reference?
Distance depends on an observer’s motion. Proper length
is the distance between two points measured by an observer who is at rest relative to both of the points. Earth-bound observers measure proper length when measuring the distance between two points that are stationary relative to the Earth.
Length contraction
is the shortening of the measured length of an object moving relative to the observer’s frame:
Conceptual questions
To whom does an object seem greater in length, an observer moving with the object or an observer moving relative to the object? Which observer measures the object’s proper length?
Suppose an astronaut is moving relative to the Earth at a significant fraction of the speed of light. (a) Does he observe the rate of his clocks to have slowed? (b) What change in the rate of Earth-bound clocks does he see? (c) Does his ship seem to him to shorten? (d) What about the distance between stars that lie on lines parallel to his motion? (e) Do he and an Earth-bound observer agree on his velocity relative to the Earth?
(a) How far does the muon in
[link] travel according to the Earth-bound observer? (b) How far does it travel as viewed by an observer moving with it? Base your calculation on its velocity relative to the Earth and the time it lives (proper time). (c) Verify that these two distances are related through length contraction
.
(a) 1.387 km = 1.39 km
(b) 0.433 km
(c)
Thus, the distances in parts (a) and (b) are related when
.
(a) How long would the muon in
[link] have lived as observed on the Earth if its velocity was
? (b) How far would it have traveled as observed on the Earth? (c) What distance is this in the muon’s frame?
(a) How long does it take the astronaut in
[link] to travel 4.30 ly at
(as measured by the Earth-bound observer)? (b) How long does it take according to the astronaut? (c) Verify that these two times are related through time dilation with
as given.
(a) How fast would an athlete need to be running for a 100-m race to look 100 yd long? (b) Is the answer consistent with the fact that relativistic effects are difficult to observe in ordinary circumstances? Explain.
(a) Find the value of
for the following situation. An astronaut measures the length of her spaceship to be 25.0 m, while an Earth-bound observer measures it to be 100 m. (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?
(a) 0.250
(b)
must be ≥1
(c) The Earth-bound observer must measure a shorter length, so it is unreasonable to assume a longer length.
A spaceship is heading directly toward the Earth at a velocity of
. The astronaut on board claims that he can send a canister toward the Earth at
relative to the Earth. (a) Calculate the velocity the canister must have relative to the spaceship. (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?
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