In a Classroom on the First Spaceship to an Extrasolar

question 40

Multiple Choice

In a classroom on the first spaceship to an extrasolar planet--there are children because the trip will take 200 years--a teacher is showing charge Q uniformly distributed along a conducting rod of length L0 to produce linear charge density λ₀. As observed on Pluto when the spaceship passes it at 0.800c, the linear charge density is

• A)0.360 λ₀.
• B)0.600 λ₀.
• C)0.800 λ₀.
• D)1.00 λ₀.
• E)1.67 λ₀.

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