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Ch. 36 - You are in a windowless car in an exceptionally...Ch. 36 - You might have had the experience of being at a...Ch. 36 - Prob. 3QCh. 36 - Does the Earth really go around the Sun? Or is it...Ch. 36 - If you were on a spaceship traveling at 0.5c away...Ch. 36 - The time dilation effect is sometimes expressed as...Ch. 36 - Does time dilation mean that time actually passes...Ch. 36 - Prob. 8QCh. 36 - If you were traveling away from Earth at speed...Ch. 36 - Do time dilation and length contraction occur at...
Ch. 36 - Discuss how our everyday lives would be different...Ch. 36 - Explain how the length contraction and time...Ch. 36 - The drawing at the start of this Chapter shows the...Ch. 36 - Prob. 16QCh. 36 - Can a particle of nonzero mass attain the speed of...Ch. 36 - Prob. 18QCh. 36 - If mass is a form of energy, does this mean that a...Ch. 36 - Prob. 20QCh. 36 - Is our intuitive notion that velocities simply...Ch. 36 - (II) A friend speeds by you in her spacecraft at a...Ch. 36 - (I) Suppose in Fig. 3611 that the origins of S and...Ch. 36 - (II) An unstable particle is at rest and suddenly...Ch. 36 - Prob. 37PCh. 36 - Prob. 39PCh. 36 - (II) How much energy can be obtained front...Ch. 36 - Prob. 47PCh. 36 - Prob. 55PCh. 36 - A spacecraft (reference frame S) moves past Earth...Ch. 36 - As a rough rule, anything traveling faster than...
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