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Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Edition
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Special Theory of Relativity
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Question by Giancoli, Douglas C., Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Ed., ©2014, Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Inc., New York.
Problem 14
Q

An unstable particle produced in an accelerator experiment travels at constant velocity, covering 1.00 m in 3.40 ns in the lab frame before changing (“decaying”) into other particles. In the rest frame of the particle, determine

  1. how long it lived before decaying,
  2. how far it moved before decaying.
A
  1. 6.7×1010 s6.7 \times 10^{-10} \textrm{ s}
  2. 0.20 m0.20 \textrm{ m}
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