Assessment #1 – Time Dilation and Length of Contraction.

1. Find the speed of the spacecraft whose clock runs 1𝑠 slow per hour relative to a clock on the

earth.

2. The Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1969 travelled there at a speed relative

to the earth of 1.08 × 104 𝑚/𝑠. To an observer on the earth, how much longer than his own

days was a day on the spacecraft?

3. An Astronaut whose height on the earth is exactly 6𝑓𝑡 is lying parallel to the axis of a

spacecraft moving at 0.9𝑐 relative to the earth. What is his height as measured by an observer

in the spacecraft? How about by an observer on the earth?

4. An Astronaut is standing in a spacecraft parallel to its direction of motion. An observer on the

earth finds that the spacecraft speed is 0.6𝑐 and the astronaut is 1.3𝑚 tall. What is the

astronaut’s height as measured in the spacecraft?