Length Contraction: You Are a Passenger on a Spaceship

question 21

Multiple Choice

Length contraction: You are a passenger on a spaceship. As the speed of the spaceship increases, you would observe that

• A) the length of your spaceship is getting shorter.
• B) the length of your spaceship is getting longer.
• C) the length of your spaceship is not changing.

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