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Unreasonable Results

Avg difficulty 2.5

(a) Find the value of γ\gamma for the following situation. An astronaut measures the length of her spaceship to be 25.0 m, while an Earth-bound observer measures it to be 100 m. (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are unreasonable or inconsistent?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 28.3 Length Contraction, exercise 11

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