Answer to Question #188081 in Physics for Jerick Sapa

Question

1.  Explain how the length contraction and time dilation formulas might be used to indicate that c is the limiting speed in the universe.
2. Discuss how our everyday lives would be different if the speed of light were only 25 m/s. 
3. You decide to travel to a star 62 light-years from Earth at a speed that tells you the distance is only 25 lightyears. How many years would it take you to make the trip?
4. A box at rest has the shape of a cube 2.6 m on a side. This box is loaded onto the flat floor of a spaceship and the spaceship then flies past us with a horizontal speed of 0.80c. What is the volume of the box as we observe it?

Answer 1

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