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Chapter 36, Problem 89GP
The fictional starship Enterprise obtains its power by combining matter and antimatter, achieving complete conversion of mass into energy. If the mass of the Enterprise is approximately 6 × 109 kg, how much mass must be converted into kinetic energy to accelerate it from rest to one-tenth the
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Ch. 36.4 - Examine the experiment of Fig. 366 from O1s...Ch. 36.5 - What is the muons mean lifetime (Example 361) if...Ch. 36.5 - A certain atomic clock keeps perfect time on...Ch. 36.6 - Prob. 1DECh. 36.8 - Use Eqs. 367 to calculate the speed of rocket 2 in...Ch. 36.8 - A rocket is headed away from Earth at a speed of...Ch. 36.11 - A proton is traveling in an accelerator with a...Ch. 36.11 - For 1% accuracy, does an electron with K = 100 eV...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 - Suppose the speed of light were infinite. What...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. 15QCh. 36 - Can a particle of nonzero mass attain the speed of...Ch. 36 - Prob. 17QCh. 36 - If mass is a form of energy, does this mean that a...Ch. 36 - Prob. 19QCh. 36 - Is our intuitive notion that velocities simply...Ch. 36 - (I) A spaceship passes you at a speed of 0.850c....Ch. 36 - Prob. 2PCh. 36 - (II) According to the special theory of...Ch. 36 - (II) If you were to travel to a star 135...Ch. 36 - (II) What is the speed of a pion if its average...Ch. 36 - (II) In an Earth reference frame, a star is 56...Ch. 36 - (II) Suppose you decide to travel to a star 65...Ch. 36 - (II) At what speed v will the length of a 1.00-m...Ch. 36 - (II) Escape velocity from the Earth is 11.2 km/s....Ch. 36 - (II) A friend speeds by you in her spacecraft at a...Ch. 36 - (II) At what speed do the relativistic formulas...Ch. 36 - (II) A certain star is 18.6 light-years away. 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