Question: Please show your work so I can understand the process People on Earth watch a spaceship fly by at 0.6c. People living on the spaceship

Please show your work so I can understand the process

People on Earth watch a spaceship fly by at 0.6c. People living on the spaceship measure its length to be 100 m.

a) How long (in meters) do people on earth measure the space ship to be?

b) While the spaceship flies by, people on Earth watch a clock inside the spaceship. Two minutes goes by on the spaceship clock. How much time goes by according to a clock on Earth?

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