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Quick Quizzes Relativity

QUICK QUIZ 26.1 Imagine that you are an astronaut who is being paid according to the time spent traveling in space as measured by a clock on Earth. You take long voyage traveling at a speed near that of light. Upon your return to Earth, your paycheck will be (a) smaller than if you had remained on Earth, (b) larger than if you had remained on Earth, or (c) the same as if you had remained on Earth.

QUICK QUIZ 26.1 ANSWER (b). Assuming that your on-duty time was kept on Earth, you will be pleasantly surprised with a large paycheck. Less time will have passed for you in your frame of reference than for your employer back on Earth.

QUICK QUIZ 26.2 You are packing for a trip to another star, to which you will be traveling at 0.99c. Should you buy smaller sizes of your clothing, because you will be skinnier on the trip? Can you sleep in a smaller cabin than usual, because you will be shorter when you lie down?

QUICK QUIZ 26.2 ANSWER The answers to both of these questions is no. Both your clothing and your sleeping cabin are at rest in your reference frame, thus, they will have their proper length. There will be no change in measured lengths of objects within your spacecraft. Another observer, on a spacecraft traveling at a high speed relative to yours, will measure you as thinner (if your body is oriented in a direction perpendicular to the direction of motion relative to him) or will claim that you are able to fit into a shorter sleeping cabin (if your body is oriented in a direction parallel to your direction of travel relative to the other observer).

QUICK QUIZ 26.3 You are observing a rocket moving away from you. Compared to its length when it was at rest on the ground, you will measure its length to be (a) shorter, (b) longer, or (c) the same. Now you see a clock through a window on the rocket. Compared to the passage of time measured by the watch on your wrist, you observe that the passage of time on the rocket's clock is (d) faster, (e) slower, or (f) the same. Answer the same questions if the rocket turns around and comes toward you.

QUICK QUIZ 26.3 ANSWER (a), (e). The outgoing rocket will appear to have a shorter length and a slower clock. The answers are the same for the incoming rocket. Length contraction and time dilation depend only on the magnitude of the relative velocity, not on the direction.

QUICK QUIZ 26.4 A photon is reflected from a mirror. True or false: (a) Because a photon has a zero mass, it does not exert a force on the mirror. (b) Although the photon has energy, it cannot transfer any energy to the surface because it has zero mass. (c) The photon carries momentum, and when it reflects off the mirror, it undergoes a change in momentum and exerts a force on the mirror. (d) Although the photon carries momentum, its change in momentum is zero when it reflects from the mirror, so it cannot exert a force on the mirror.

QUICK QUIZ 26.4 ANSWER (a) False (b) False (c) True (d) False A reflected photon does exert a force on the surface. Although a photon has zero mass, a photon does carry momentum. When it reflects from a surface, there is a change in the momentum, just like the change in momentum of a ball bouncing off a wall. According to the momentum interpretation of Newton’s second law, a change in momentum results in a force on the surface. This concept is used in theoretical studies of space sailing. These studies propose building nonpowered spacecraft with huge reflective sails oriented perpendicularly to the rays from the Sun. The large number of photons from the Sun reflecting from the surface of the sail will exert a force which, although small, will provide a continuous acceleration. This would allow the spacecraft to travel to other planets without fuel.

QUICK QUIZ 26.5 Two identical clocks are in the same house, one upstairs in a bedroom and the other downstairs in the kitchen. Which statement is correct? (a) The clock in the kitchen runs more slowly than the clock in the bedroom. (b) The clock in the bedroom runs more slowly than the clock in the kitchen. (c) Both clocks keep the same time.

QUICK QUIZ 26.5 ANSWER (a). The downstairs clock runs more slowly because it is closer to the Earth and hence experiences a stronger gravitational field than the upstairs clock does.