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5.5 Exercise 11

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In a frame S, two events are observed: event 1: a pion is created at rest at the origin and event 2: the pion disintegrates after time τ\tau. Another observer in a frame S′\text{S} ' is moving in the positive direction along the positive x-axis with a constant speed v and observes the same two events in his frame. The origins of the two frames coincide at t=t′=0.t = t ' = 0 . (a) Find the positions and timings of these two events in the frame S′\text{S} ' (a) according to the Galilean transformation, and (b) according to the Lorentz transformation.

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