Muons are created by cosmic-ray collisions at an elevation h (as measured in Earth's frame of reference)

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Muons are created by cosmic-ray collisions at an elevation h (as measured in Earth's frame of reference) above Earth's surface and travel downward with a constant speed of 0.990c. During a time interval of 1.5 μs in the rest frame of the muons, half of the muons present at the beginning of the interval decay. If one fourth of the original muons reach Earth before decaying, about how big is the height h?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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