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Problem Sets Physics 4D
2) (Tipler, P1.17) Consider a clock at rest at the origin of the laboratory frame.
a) Draw a spacetime diagram that illustrates that this clock ticks slow when observed from the
reference frame of a rocket moving with respect to the laboratory at v = 0.800c.
b) When 10.0 s have elapsed on the rocket clock, how many have ticked by on the lab clock?
Answer(s)
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