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A starship takes $3.0$ days to travel between two distant space stations according to its own clocks. Instruments on one of the space stations indicate that the trip took $4.0$ days. How fast did the starship travel, relative to that space station?
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First, we need to determine the time dilation factor, which is the ratio of the time measured by the space station to the time measured by the starship. This is given by: Time dilation factor = (Time measured by space station) / (Time measured by starship) Show more…
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