Spaceship A, moving away from the earth at velocity (3 / 5 c), is sending messages to

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Spaceship A, moving away from the earth at velocity \(3 / 5 c\), is sending messages to spaceship B, which left the earth earlier at speed \(4 / 5 c\) in the same direction. The messages sent by A are contained in pulses sent by a laser on A, with the pulses separated by 100 femtoseconds in A's frame of reference. As B receives the pulses, what is the pulse separation according to the crew on B?

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Modern Classical Mechanics

ISBN: 9781108834971

1st Edition

Authors: T. M. Helliwell, V. V. Sahakian

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