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If you were traveling in a high-speed rocket ship, would meter sticks on board appear to you to be contracted? Defend your answer.
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Relative motion is the calculation of the motion of an object with regard to some other moving object. Thus, the observer and the object being observed are moving with respect to each other. Show more…
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