GENERAL PHYSICS 2

Quarter 4 – Module 7
Special Relativity

Name: Jade C. Delos Santos Week No. 7

Grade and Section: STEM 12-A Date: 06-02-
2022
Subject Teacher: Ms. Jenny V. Castillo Score:

Activity 7.

1. A rocket ship passes you at a speed of 0.90c. A girl measured its length to be
50 m. How long would ta be when at rest?
2. An occupant on a high-speed spaceship traveling between Earth and Mars at a
steady speed of 0.85 c reads a brochure which takes 15.0 min according to her
wristwatch.
a) How long does this take as measured by Earth-based clocks?
t=¿
b) How much farther is the spaceship from Earth at the end of reading the
brochure than it was at the beginning?
d=vt
8
¿( 0.85 c ×3 × 10 ) ×(28.475× 60)
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d=4.36 ×10 m
3. Compare the relativistic momentum of an electron to its classical momentum
when it has a speed of
(a) 0.88c in an accelerator used for treating cancer and
(b) 4.50 × 107 𝑚/𝑠 in the cathode ray tube of a TV set.
4. An accelerator at a Physics Laboratory can accelerate protons to a Kinetic
energy of 1012 eV. The rest mass of a proton is 𝑚𝑐2 = 9.38 × 108 𝑒𝑉. What is the
speed of that proton?