College Physics: A Strategic Approach (4th Edition)
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Chapter 27, Problem 63GP
A spaceship flies past an experimenter who measures its length to be one-half the length he had measured when the spaceship was at rest. An astronaut aboard the spaceship notes that his clock ticks at 1-second intervals. What is the time between ticks as measured by the experimenter?
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