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Someone in Earth's rest frame says that a spaceship's trip between two planets took 10.0 y, while an astronaut on the space ship says that the trip took 6.27 y. Find the speed of the spaceship in terms of the speed of light.
 
  A) 0.779c
  B) 0.687c
  C) 0.975c
  D) 0.384c

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In Ptolemy's theory, retrograde planetary motion is explained as
 
  A) the backward part of the planet's loop-the-loop orbits around Earth.
  B) due to the back-and-forth or oscillatory motion that planets make as they move along their circular orbits around Earth.
  C) due to the natural wandering of the celestial sphere of background stars.
  D) a result of Earth's motion: as Earth passes another planet, that planet appears to move backward as seen against the background stars.
  E) Actually he didn't have an explanation for this.



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peilian

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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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cabate

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Reply 2 on: Jul 29, 2018
Excellent


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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