You’re a consultant for the director of a sci-fi movie. The film starts with two spaceships, each measuring 25 m long in its rest frame, approaching Earth in opposite directions with speeds shown in Fig. 33.24. The director wants to know how long to make ship B for scenes shot

Figure 33.24

(a) In Earth’s reference frame and
(b) In ship A’s frame. 

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A B v = 0.65c v = 0.50c