fluidistic
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Homework Statement
A plane is moving at 600m/s with respect to the ground. According to clocks on the ground, how much time would it take so that the plane's clock is delayed by 2 microseconds?
Homework Equations
Lorentz transformations.
The Attempt at a Solution
Let O be a reference frame on the ground and O' be a reference frame on the plane.
v=600m/s. If I'm not wrong, they ask me [tex]t_B-t_A[/tex] such that [tex](t_B-t_A)-(t_A'-t_B')=2 \times 10 ^{-6}s[/tex]. (*)
What I've done so far is [tex]t_B'-t_A'=\gamma \left [ t_B-t_A +\frac{v}{c^2}(x_A-x_B) \right ][/tex], replacing [tex]x_A-x_B[/tex] by [tex]v(t_A-t_B)[/tex], then solving for [tex]t_B-t_A[/tex] in (*), I reach that it's worth exactly [tex]1000000s[/tex]. Or 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 s. It seems too big for me. Do you get a different answer?