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Ebrown

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A fancy sports car passes Big Ben at a speed of 0.600 c. What time interval will the driver measure for a one-second interval on the large clock?
 a. 1.67 s
  b. 0.800 s
  c. 1.25 s
  d. 0.600 s
  e. 1.00 s

Question 2

The speed of FM waves will be observed to be c = 2.9979  108 m/s when the antenna emitting the waves is
 a. at rest relative to the receiving antenna. b. moving to the right of the detecting antenna at 0.5 c. c. moving to the left of the detecting antenna at 0.5 c. d. moving as described in (a), (b) or (c) above. e. moving at 2.9979  108 m/s.


Heffejeff

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Reply #1 on: Jul 28, 2018
Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D


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