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From the provided coordinate differences, is the spacetime interval each case spacelike, timelike, or null?

Transcribed Image Text:Consider two spacetime events with coordinate differences (At, Ax, Ay, Az)
as given. In each case, is the spacetime interval spacelike, timelike, or null?
(a) (1 s, 1 m, 1 m, 1 m) (b) (1 s, lc - s, 0, 0) (c) (10−³ s, 1 m, 2 m, 3 m)
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