In a Classroom on the First Spaceship to an Extrasolar $\lambda$

question 13

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 $\lambda$ ₀.As observed on Pluto when the spaceship passes it at 0.800 c,the linear charge density $\lambda ^ { \prime }$ is

• A)0.360 \(\lambda\)₀.
• B)0.600 \(\lambda\)₀.
• C)0.800 \(\lambda\)₀.
• D)1.00 \(\lambda\)₀.
• E)1.67 \(\lambda\)₀.

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