As a spaceship's velocity gets closer to the speed of light:
A) its length will increase and its clock will run more slowly.
B) its length will decrease and its clock will run faster.
C) its length will increase and its clock will run faster.
D) its length will decrease and its clock will run more slowly.
E) None of these will happen.
D
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1. If I know a field’s curl at all points in space, I can calculate the field’s vectors at all points in space.
2. In a certain region of empty space, the z component of the magnetic field is changing with time. If we sum for a set of tiny steps
around a closed loop in the xy plane, we will get a nonzero result.
3. In a certain region of empty space, the z component of the magnetic field is changing with time. If we sum for a set of tiny steps
around a closed loop in the xy plane, we will get a nonzero result.
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