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Ch. 39 - Which observer in Figure 38.1 sees the balls...Ch. 39 - A baseball pitcher with a 90-mi/h fastball throws...Ch. 39 - Suppose the observer O on the train in Figure 38.6...Ch. 39 - A crew on a spacecraft watches a movie that is two...Ch. 39 - Suppose astronauts are paid according to the...Ch. 39 - You are packing for a trip to another star. During...Ch. 39 - You are observing a spacecraft moving away from...Ch. 39 - You are driving on a freeway at a relativistic...Ch. 39 - The following pairs of energiesparticle 1: E, 2E;...Ch. 39 - (i) Does the speed of an electron have an upper...
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When he...Ch. 39 - A fellow astronaut passes by you in a spacecraft...Ch. 39 - A deep-space vehicle moves away from the Earth...Ch. 39 - For what value of does = 1.010 0? Observe that...Ch. 39 - A supertrain with a proper length of 100 m travels...Ch. 39 - The average lifetime of a pi meson in its own...Ch. 39 - An astronomer on the Earth observes a meteoroid in...Ch. 39 - A cube of steel has a volume of 1.00 cm3 and mass...Ch. 39 - A spacecraft with a proper length of 300 m passes...Ch. 39 - A spacecraft with a proper length of Lp passes by...Ch. 39 - A light source recedes from an observer with a...Ch. 39 - Review. In 1963, astronaut Gordon Cooper orbited...Ch. 39 - Police radar detects the speed of a car (Fig....Ch. 39 - The identical twins Speedo and Goslo join a...Ch. 39 - An atomic clock moves at 1 000 km/h for 1.00 h as...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.26PCh. 39 - A red light flashes at position xR = 3.00 m and...Ch. 39 - Shannon observes two light pulses to be emitted...Ch. 39 - A moving rod is observed to have a length of =...Ch. 39 - A rod moving with a speed v along the horizontal...Ch. 39 - Keilah, in reference frame S, measures two events...Ch. 39 - Figure P38.21 shows a jet of material (at the...Ch. 39 - An enemy spacecraft moves away from the Earth at a...Ch. 39 - A spacecraft is launched from the surface of the...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.35PCh. 39 - Calculate the momentum of an electron moving with...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.37PCh. 39 - Prob. 39.38PCh. 39 - Prob. 39.39PCh. 39 - Prob. 39.40PCh. 39 - Prob. 39.41PCh. 39 - Prob. 39.42PCh. 39 - An unstable particle at rest spontaneously breaks...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.44PCh. 39 - Prob. 39.45PCh. 39 - Protons in an accelerator at the Fermi National...Ch. 39 - A proton moves at 0.950c. Calculate its (a) rest...Ch. 39 - (a) Find the kinetic energy of a 78.0-kg...Ch. 39 - A proton in a high-energy accelerator moves with a...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.50PCh. 39 - The total energy of a proton is twice its rest...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.52PCh. 39 - When 1.00 g of hydrogen combines with 8.00 g of...Ch. 39 - In a nuclear power plain, the fuel rods last 3 yr...Ch. 39 - The power output of the Sun is 3.85 1026 W. By...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.56PCh. 39 - Prob. 39.57PCh. 39 - Prob. 39.58PCh. 39 - The rest energy of an electron is 0.511 MeV. The...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.60PCh. 39 - A pion at rest (m = 273me) decays to a muon (m =...Ch. 39 - An unstable particle with mass m = 3.34 1027 kg...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.63PCh. 39 - Prob. 39.64PCh. 39 - Review. A global positioning system (GPS)...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.66APCh. 39 - The net nuclear fusion reaction inside the Sun can...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.68APCh. 39 - A Doppler weather radar station broadcasts a pulse...Ch. 39 - An object having mass 900 kg and traveling at...Ch. 39 - An astronaut wishes to visit the Andromeda galaxy,...Ch. 39 - A physics professor on the Earth gives an exam to...Ch. 39 - An interstellar space probe is launched from...Ch. 39 - Prob. 39.74APCh. 39 - Prob. 39.75APCh. 39 - An object disintegrates into two fragments. One...Ch. 39 - The cosmic rays of highest energy are protons that...Ch. 39 - Spacecraft I. containing students taking a physics...Ch. 39 - Review. 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