SCIE 17 – MODERN PHYSICS

Midterm Output

Name: Jessrelle O. Gumawa Course: BSEd 3D

Name of Output: Classical Relativity Date Submitted: June 30, 2023

SA No. 1
A passenger in a train moving at 30 m/s passes a man standing on a station platform
at t = t’ = 0. Twenty seconds after the train passes him, the man on the platform
determines that a bird flying along the tracks in the same direction as the train is 800
m away. What are the coordinates of the bird as determined by the passenger?

Given:
v = 30 m/s
x = 800 m
t = 20s

Find (x’, y’, z’, t)

Solution:

The coordinates assigned to the bird by the man on the station platform are
(x, y, z, t) = (800 m, 0, 0, 20s)

The passenger measures the distance x’ to the bird as

x’ = x - vt
x’ = 800 m - (30 m/s) (20s)
x’ = 800 m - 600 = 200 m

Therfore, the bird’s coordinates as determined by the passenger are

(x’, y’, z’, t) = (200 m, 0, 0, 20s)
 SCIE 17 – MODERN PHYSICS
Midterm Output

Name: Jessrelle O. Gumawa Course: BSEd 3D

Name of Output: Classical Relativity Date Submitted: June 30, 2023

SA No. 2
A flashbulb is located 30 km from an observer. The bulb is fired and the observer
sees the flash at 1:00 PM. What is the actual time that the bulb is fired?

Given:
d = 30 km
km
v = 3 × 105 s

Find t

Formula: t = d
v
Solution: 30 km
t =
3 × 105 km/s
t = 0.0001 s

This means that the bulb was fired 0.0001s prior to the observer seeing the flash at 1:00 PM.
 SCIE 17 – MODERN PHYSICS
Midterm Output

Name: Jessrelle O. Gumawa Course: BSEd 3D

Name of Output: Classical Relativity Date Submitted: June 30, 2023

SA No. 3
The average lifetime of m-mesons with a speed of 0.95 c is measured to be 6 x 10-6 s.
Compute the average lifetime of m-mesons in a system in which they are at rest.

Given:
t’ = 6 × 10-6 s
v = 0.95 c

Find t
t’
Formula: t =
√ v2
1-
c2

Solution: t’
t=
√ v2
1-
c2

6 × 10-6 s
t=
√
1 - (0.95)
2

c 2

t = 19.2 × 106 s
 SCIE 17 – MODERN PHYSICS
Midterm Output

Name: Jessrelle O. Gumawa Course: BSEd 3D

Name of Output: Classical Relativity Date Submitted: June 30, 2023

SA No. 4
An airplane is moving with respect to the earth with a speed of 600 m/s. As
determined by earth clocks, how long will it take for the airplane’s clock to fall
behind by two microseconds?

Given:
t = 2 microseconds

v = 600 m
s
c = 3 × 108

Find t (the time interval measured by the earth clock)

t
Formula: t =
√ v2
1- 2
c
Solution:
t
t=
√ v2
1- 2
c
t
t + 2 microseconds =
√ m/s)2
(600
1-
(299,792,458 m/s)2

Simplifying the right-hand of the equation:

t
t + 2 microseconds =
√
1 - 0.000001266
t
t + 2 microseconds =
0.999999733

Multiplying both sides by 0.999999733:

t + 2 microseconds × 0.999999733 = t

Subtracing t from both sides:

2 microseconds × 0.999999733 = t - t
2 microseconds × 0.999999733 = 0

Therefore, the equation has no solution. This suggests that the airplane would have to travel
at an even higher velocity to experience a time dilation of two microseconds.