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28.3 Exercise 1

Avg difficulty 2.5

A particle is traveling through the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 0.750c0 . \text{750} c. To an Earth-bound observer, the distance it travels is 2.50 km. How far does the particle travel in the particle’s frame of reference?

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