Spaceship Julio Passes Spaceship Klara with a Relative Velocity of 0.8c.An

question 52

Multiple Choice

Spaceship Julio passes spaceship Klara with a relative velocity of 0.8c.An astronaut aboard Julio finds that her heart is beating once every 0.0133 min (75 beats/min) .The time between beats according to a sympathetic astronaut aboard Klara is

• A)0.00800 min
• B)0.0106 min
• C)0.0133 min
• D)0.0166 min
• E)0.0222 min

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Experimental

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Significance Test

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