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Chapter 36, Problem 16EAP
a. At what speed, as a fraction of c, must a rocket travel on a journey to and from a distant star so that the astronauts age 10 years while the Mission Control workers on earth age 120 years?
b. As measured by Mission Control, how far away is the distant star?
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