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Mavis boards a spaceship and then zips past Stanley on earth at a relative
speed of 0.600c. At the instant she passes him, they both start
timers. (a) A short time later Stanley measures that Mavis has traveled
9.00 * 10^7 m beyond him and is passing a space station. What does
Stanley’s timer read as she passes the space station? What does Mavis’s
timer read? (b) Stanley starts to blink just as Mavis flies past him, and
Mavis measures that the blink takes 0.400 s from beginning to end.
According to Stanley, what is the duration of his blink?
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