heres a good one..I was looking through work I did for a course at the Natural History in NYC.
Anyone know the answer to this?
Let investigate a space vacation. 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?
You can use the following equation:
Equation for length contraction
L = L' * √ (1 - v2/c2)
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.