Your spaceship, which has a proper length of 300 m, passes near a space platform while you are moving at a relative speed of 0.86 c. What is the length of the spaceship when measured by someone on the space platform? What is the length of the spaceship from your perspective in the spaceship? The length is, of course, different from these two frames of reference. Does the length really change? Use the following equation for length contraction to solve this problem. Make sure to show how you arrived at your answers.
Equation for length contraction L = L' * sqrt(1 - v^2 /c^2 ) Where: L = The length of the spaceship as seen by the observer L' = The proper length of the spaceship v = The velocity of the spaceship c = The speed of light.