Aha! Thank you very much! I see now that the change in x as given by LT is not necessarily the length, but the distance *between the events.* This would have been true whichever LT equation I used.
Very very helpful! Thank you again!
Thank you!
The solution set that my professor distributed says that the answer is 125m and he got it using LT. What he wrote exactly is:
l' = x[SIZE="1"]2' - x[SIZE="1"]1' = ((x[SIZE="1"]2 - Vt[SIZE="1"]2) - (x[SIZE="1"]1-vt[SIZE="1"]1)) / sqrt(1- v^2/c^2)
= (x[SIZE="1"]2 -...
Hello,
I am working on the following problem and cannot figure out if I am doing the problem incorrectly or if my professor gave us the wrong answer. (I think that the former is the issue.)
1. Homework Statement [/b]
To a stationary observer two frogs at opposite ends of a 100m long lake...