The George W. Bush you forgot
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subigo, what you have in your title can't equal a distance, it's a unitless number.
v^2/c^2 both are in m/s so units cancel and there's no others. can't equal distance.
v^2/c^2 both are in m/s so units cancel and there's no others. can't equal distance.
He already answered your completely off topic question in two threads now.
http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/109559-been-gone-litte-while.html#post1086394
I put it there for a friend of mine who's a high-school teacher and she's doing an online scavenger hunt. I have no idea what it means, so it doesn't really matter to me if it's "correct" or not... This is from the question that leads to it:
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You are travelling to a distant star 100 light-years away, at a constant speed that tells you the distance is only 25 light-years away. How many years, relative to you, will it actually take you to make the journey?
The equation to be used can be found [a bunch of scavenger hunt details here].
Hint: D is the spatial dilation percentage, derived from the time dilation equation t'/t. The distance change is the product of time dilation. D=v/t
If the answer to this question is not a whole number, round up to the nearest one. That whole number will be the next question you should follow. Good luck!
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Knock yourself out. I took Algebra in college and got a C.
Then what's the answer and the mistake? She gave this to her students in September as the final and I think it's due this week. There's like 150 questions to the hunt and this was one of the first ones, so if there's a problem with this one, I'm sure it will fuck up the rest of it. I should probably let her know...
