Question: The light clock in the spaceship in Figure 1-25 uses a light pulse moving up the y axis to reflect back from a mirror as
The light clock in the spaceship in Figure 1-25 uses a light pulse moving up the y axis to reflect back from a mirror as the ship moves along the x axis. Suppose instead the light pulse moves along the x' axis between x' = 0 and a mirror at x' = L.
(a) What is the time required for the pulse to make a round trip in the rest system of the spaceship?
(b) What is the round-trip time in the laboratory frame?
(c) Does the result in (b) agree with that expected from time dilation? Justify your answer.
Figure 1-25
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