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Assuming 300,000 km/sec for c;
I am in a spaceship which is 300 meters long traveling at 0.5c. A beam of light passes me and I want to measure how long it took to travel the length of my ship.
As c is the same in all frames of reference, I would work this out as distance (300 m) divided by speed (300,000 km/sec) which = 1 microsecond.
Is this correct?
If so, what about length contraction?
I am in a spaceship which is 300 meters long traveling at 0.5c. A beam of light passes me and I want to measure how long it took to travel the length of my ship.
As c is the same in all frames of reference, I would work this out as distance (300 m) divided by speed (300,000 km/sec) which = 1 microsecond.
Is this correct?
If so, what about length contraction?