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The Classic Pole in Barn Relativity Question
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[QUOTE="stevendaryl, post: 5452218, member: 372855"] Yes, your calculations are correct. The intuitive way of understanding it might be to look from the point of view of the pole-vaulter. From his point of view, it's the barn that is moving, and is length-contracted to just [itex]9/5[/itex] meters between the doors. (You've described a length contraction factor, [itex]\frac{1}{\gamma}[/itex], of [itex]3/5[/itex]). So if you stick a 5-meter pole into a barn that is only 9/5 meters long, then of course the front end of the pole will come out the back door before the back end comes through the front door. [/QUOTE]
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