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1. You like this? Which of the following statements is TRUE?

l. lf events A and B are timelike-separated, then they will always be timelike-separated in all other inertial
reference frames.
ll. lf events A and B are spacelike-separated, then they will have no causal effect on each other in all
other inertial reference frames.
lll. lf event A causes event B in one reference frame, then event B will cause event A in some other inertial
reference frame

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2. Space travel adventure. One night, an alien took you for a space travel adventure. You and the alien
traveled for 3.00 hours according to your wristwatch at speed 0.85 according to an observer on earth.
How long have you been away from earth according to the wall clock in your room?

a. 1.58 hours
b. 3.00 hours
c. 2.55 hours
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3. Butlet Consider a bullet moving at a constant velocity as observed by a lab frame and a rocket frame. lf
the rapidity of the bullet as measured by the lab and rocket frames are 7.21 and 6.49, respectively, what
is the velocity of the rocket frame as measured by the lab frame?
a. -0.617
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shows a worldline of a particle (label A) with mass y'6 kg and the F\
spacetime axes of the rocket frame. What is the energy and
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5. Kaon. A neutral Kaon with mass 498 MeV at rest decays into a positive pion and a negative pion which
have the same mass 135 MeV. What is the kinetic energy of each pion?

a 228 MeV
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c. 182 MeV
d. 249 MeV
6. MRT. A passenger train travels east at high speed. One passenger is located at the east side of the car;
another is located in the west side of that car. ln the train's frame, these two passengers glance up at the
same time. What is true regarding the passengers in the earth's frame?

a. They glance up simultaneously.

{ The passenger at the east side glances up first.
(Q ne passenger at the west side glances up first.
d. The passengers glance sideways.

7. Photon. What is the wavelength of a photon with energy 9.46 x tO-4s kg?

a. 7.0L x 1010 m
b. 1.59 x 10-28 m
c. 7.79 x 10-7 m
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8. e-e+annihilation. Two photons with a total energy of 4.500 MeV are produced in an electron-positron
collision. the
lf total rest energy of the electron-positron pair is 1.022 MeV, what is the total kinetic energy
of the electron-positron pair before collision.

a. 1.228 MeV
@ 3.478 MeV
c. 1.739 MeV
d. 2.761 MeV
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9. Causality. Consider events A-D and O in the spacetime diagram.
Which of the following statement(s) is (are) TRUE?
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Events C and D are not causally related.
ll. Event D can affect event O by light-ray emission. .A
lll. Event A can affect event B by particle emission.

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c. lll only .D
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10. Relative. Two astronauts, one at a lab frame and another on a rocket frame moving at some velocity with
respect to the lab frame, both possessing identical metersticks. The astronaut in the lab frame observes
that the meterstick on the rocket frame is a bit shorter than the one in lab frame. What will the astronaut
in the rocket frame observe about the length of the lab frame meterstick compared to the rocket frame
meterstick?

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b. Longer
c. Shorter if approaching, longer if receding
d. Shorter if receding, longer if approaching

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