A.5.5 - Length Contraction
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Practice Questions
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What is length contraction?
💡 Hint: Think about how motion affects measurement.
What does L₀ represent?
💡 Hint: It's the length measured in the object's own frame.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What happens to the length of an object moving at high speed as observed from a stationary frame?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens as the speed approaches light speed.
True or False: Length contraction occurs for all speeds.
💡 Hint: Think about relativistic effects.
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Challenge Problems
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Calculate the observed length of a spaceship with a proper length of 250 meters moving at 0.99c.
💡 Hint: Use the contraction formula and remember to square 0.99!
Discuss how the concept of length contraction challenges classical notions of static distances and measurements.
💡 Hint: Consider the implications for measurement in physics.
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