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An astronaut traveling at 0.5c takes 10hrs ship time to reach his destination. Calculate Tv & TO
 

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To is the time as measured in the rest frame (i.e. from inside the ship). Tv is the time taken as observed by anyone not in the rest frame. In this scenario, the observer would be someone outside the ship standing still as the ship passes at 0.5c
 

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