The USS Enterprise approaches the planet Alpha Centaury 4 at a speed of 0.800 c. Captain Kirk observes an airplane runway on the planet to be 2.00 km long. The air controller on the planet says that the runway on the planet is how long
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Expert's answer
2021-03-18T14:01:40-0400
according to the Lorentz contraction formula:
l1=l01−c2v2
where:
l1−the length of an object in the system of an observer
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