Can Time Dilation Help Break the 100m Dash Record?

[jinksys]

Homework Statement

An athlete has learned enough physics to know that if he measures from the Earth a time interval on a moving spacecraft , what he finds will be grater than what somebody on the spacecraft would measure. He therefore proposes to set a world record for the 100m dash by having his time taken by an observer on a moving spacecraft . Is this a good idea?

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The Attempt at a Solution

An athlete has learned enough physics to know that if he measures from the Earth a time interval on a moving spacecraft , what he finds will be grater than what somebody on the spacecraft would measure.

WUT?

 

[kuruman]

To do this problem, first you need to have some understanding about time dilation and length contraction. It would be a good idea to get background information up on these subjects. That's wut.

 

[jinksys]

To do this problem, first you need to have some understanding about time dilation and length contraction. It would be a good idea to get background information up on these subjects. That's wut.

Is the observer on the ship taking the time measurement using a clock on the ship or a clock on the ground?

 

[kuruman]

The observer on the ship measures time with a clock that is at rest with him/her.