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Ch. 38 - A meterstick moving at 0.900c relative to the...Ch. 38 - A muon formed high in the Earths atmosphere is...Ch. 38 - A deep-space vehicle moves away from the Earth...Ch. 38 - An astronaut is traveling in a space vehicle...Ch. 38 - For what value of does = 1.010 0? Observe that...Ch. 38 - You have been hired as an expert witness for an...Ch. 38 - A spacecraft with a proper length of 300 m passes...Ch. 38 - A spacecraft with a proper length of Lp passes by...Ch. 38 - A light source recedes from an observer with a...Ch. 38 - A cube of steel has a volume of 1.00 cm3 and mass...Ch. 38 - Review. In 1963, astronaut Gordon Cooper orbited...Ch. 38 - You have an assistantship with a math professor in...Ch. 38 - Police radar detects the speed of a car (Fig....Ch. 38 - Shannon observes two light pulses to be emitted...Ch. 38 - A moving rod is observed to have a length of =...Ch. 38 - A rod moving with a speed v along the horizontal...Ch. 38 - A red light flashes at position xR = 3.00 m and...Ch. 38 - You have been hired as an expert witness in the...Ch. 38 - Figure P38.21 shows a jet of material (at the...Ch. 38 - A spacecraft is launched from the surface of the...Ch. 38 - Calculate the momentum of an electron moving with...Ch. 38 - Prob. 24PCh. 38 - Prob. 25PCh. 38 - Prob. 26PCh. 38 - An unstable particle at rest spontaneously breaks...Ch. 38 - (a) Find the kinetic energy of a 78.0-kg...Ch. 38 - Prob. 29PCh. 38 - Prob. 30PCh. 38 - Protons in an accelerator at the Fermi National...Ch. 38 - You are working for an alternative energy company....Ch. 38 - The total energy of a proton is twice its rest...Ch. 38 - When 1.00 g of hydrogen combines with 8.00 g of...Ch. 38 - The rest energy of an electron is 0.511 MeV. The...Ch. 38 - Prob. 36PCh. 38 - Prob. 37PCh. 38 - Prob. 38PCh. 38 - Prob. 39PCh. 38 - An unstable particle with mass m = 3.34 1027 kg...Ch. 38 - Review. A global positioning system (GPS)...Ch. 38 - Prob. 42APCh. 38 - An astronaut wishes to visit the Andromeda galaxy,...Ch. 38 - Prob. 44APCh. 38 - Prob. 45APCh. 38 - The motion of a transparent medium influences the...Ch. 38 - An object disintegrates into two fragments. One...Ch. 38 - Prob. 48APCh. 38 - Review. Around the core of a nuclear reactor...Ch. 38 - Prob. 50APCh. 38 - Prob. 51APCh. 38 - Prob. 52APCh. 38 - Prob. 53CPCh. 38 - A particle with electric charge q moves along a...Ch. 38 - Suppose our Sun is about to explode. In an effort...
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