Consider a clock at rest at the origin of the laboratory frame. (a) Draw a spacetime diagram

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Consider a clock at rest at the origin of the laboratory frame. 

(a) Draw a spacetime diagram that illustrates that this clock ticks slow when observed from the reference frame of a rocket moving with respect to the laboratory at v = 0.8c. 

(b) When 10 s have elapsed on the rocket clock, how many have ticked by on the lab clock?

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Modern Physics

ISBN: 9781429250788

6th Edition

Authors: Paul A. Tipler, Ralph Llewellyn

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