Hey, thanks guys for replying to my problem.
Yeah so I redid the problem and come at the same conclusion that if time of communication is taken into account then A will always hit B. I don't know why but the first night when I posted here I had calculated that A would hit if the relative speed...
Although I know I could get an answer just with the Lorentz transformation equations, I'm trying to get an answer reasoning through the process of what is going on (which was after all the question in the exam: explain your reasoning for why A hit/missed B).
I'm thinking then that the answer is...
Taking the nose of A to be X = 0, X+ pointing in front of A towards B
Now answering the questions in order:at Ta = 0 ==) Xtb = L/Ω (Can't find symbol for lambda on my keyboard so this will have to do)
T1 = (Lo/Ω)/V
T2 = T1 + Lo/c
(Xta = -Lo, T2)
X'ta = Ω (-Lo - V((L/Ω)/V + Lo/c)) =...
Homework Statement
Two rockets, A and B each of proper length Lo, approach each other along the x-axis with speed v. their noses cross at Ta = Tb = 0. A man with a gun at the tail of rocket A is aiming perpendicular to the relative motion, and shoots at the very moment he see's the nose of A...
Hey everyone,
I do speak english perfectly well do not fear. I am a undergrad student at the Université de Montréal in Mathematics/Physics. Pretty excited about contributing to this forum.