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Special relativity problems a) A windowless spaceship falls freely to the ground along a vertical path. The physicist...

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Special relativity problems

a)

A windowless spaceship falls freely to the ground along avertical path. The physicist observes two stationary objects insidethe spacecraft, which are at a distance of 1 m from each other whenthe astronaut is at 100 km altitude. How accurate distancemeasurement does the physicist need to do to discover that he isnot in complete inertia? (Do not take into account the Earth'satmosphere)

b)

Assume that the criterion S moves at a rate v seen from anothercriterion S. Furthermore, suppose that the initial points of thecriteria coincide with time t = 0. Find the Galilei transformationthat links the spatial coordinates of the reference systems.

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