Re: Could someone check this is right - SR length and time




"blackboab" <blackboab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| if the observer O at the front of the train fires a beam of light at a
| mirror M at the end of the train (train is of any length you desire )
| are you saying the light takes longer to get from O to M than from M
to
| O ?

Nope.
Why don't you work the problem yourself, I gave you easy numbers?
It does you no good if you look to me for answers.
I'll help, but you can't learn without trying.
Androcles.

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