Learning Goal A rocket train car that is 30 m long is traveling from Los Angeles to New York at u = 0.5c when a light at the center of the car flashes. When the light reaches the front of the car, it immediately rings a bell. Light reaching the back of the car immediately sounds a siren. A bicyclist waiting to cross the tracks sees the light in front of her at the instant when it flashes. Are the bell and siren simultaneous events for the bicyclist? If not, what time delay does the bicyclist hear between the events?
Take the direction of motion of the train (eastward) to be the positive direction of x'. Let the instant when the light flashes be t0 s. What are (xA, tA) and (B, tB), the spacetime coordinates of event A and B in S?

Sara is creating an experiment. her hypothesis states the following. if i increase the air in my tires, then i will get better gas mileage. if this is her hypothesis what column titles do we need in our date table? a. air pressure in tire (psi) and gas mileage (mph) b. air pressure in the atmosphere (psi) and gas mileage (mph) c. miles (m) and gallons per mile (g) d. old battery and new battery

The lights used by mark watley (played by matt damon) during the film the martian seem to be metal halide lamps. metal halide lamps are filled with vaporized mercury and metal-halogen compounds. when an electric current is passed through the lamp, the tube begins to glow a bright white/blue color. if you were to pass this light through a prism to separate the individual light frequencies, you would see a rainbow just as you would if using natural sunlight because of the complexity of the metal halide gas and the vast amount of possible electron transitions. (the study of light in this way is known as spectroscopy and allows astronomers to know exactly what atoms compose distant stars, simply by looking at the light they emit. the spectral lines an atom produces uniquely identifies that atom just like a fingerprint uniquely identifies a person. the momentum equation and energy equation that we have used above can be combined to give the following equation: c = e p where again p is the phonon momentum, e is the photon energy and c is the speed of light. when you divide the photon energy found in #6 by the photon momentum found in #4, do you get the speed of light? (if not, check your work for questions #4 through #6). yes no

Agas contained within a piston-cylinder assembly undergoes three processes in series: process 12: compression with pv= constant from 1 bar and 1 liter to 4 bar. process 23: constant pressure expansion to 1 liter. process 31: constant volume calculate the pressure and volume at each state, and sketch the processes on a p-vdiagram labeled with pressure and volume values at each numbered stat