Chapter 37: Q98P (page 1152)

An astronaut exercising on a treadmill maintains a pulse rate of 150 per minute. If he exercises for 1.00 h as measured by a clock on his spaceship, with a stride length of 1.00 m/s, while the ship travels with a speed of 0.900c relative to a ground station, what are (a) the pulse rate and (b) the distance walked as measured by someone at the ground station?

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(a) The pulse rate at ground station is $65.4 \frac{p u l s e}{m i n}$ .

(b) The distance measured at ground station is $1569.2 m$ .

Step by step solution

Step 1: Identification of given data

The pulse rate of astronaut on treadmillis $r_{o} = 150 \frac{p u l s e}{m i n}$

The duration for exercise for astronaut is $t = 1 h = 3600 s .$

The stride length is $u = 1 \frac{m}{s}$

The speed of ship is $v = 0.900 c .$

The pulse rate is the frequency of heart rate in every minute. Each pulse is made from one compression and one expansion of heart.

Step 2: Determination of pulse rate at ground station

(a)

The pulse rate at ground station is given as

$r = r_{o} \sqrt{1 - {(\frac{v}{c})}^{2}}$

Here, $c$ is the speed of light and its value is $3 \times 10^{8} \frac{m}{s}$ .

Substitute all the values in the above equation.

$r = (150 \frac{p u l s e}{m i n}) \sqrt{1 - {(\frac{0.900 c}{c})}^{2}} r = 65.4 \frac{p u l s e}{m i n}$

Therefore, the pulse rate at ground station is $65.4 \frac{p u l s e}{m i n}$ .

Determination distance measured at ground station

(b)

The distance measured at ground station is given as:

$d = u t_{o} \sqrt{1 - {(\frac{v}{c})}^{2}}$

Substitute all the values in the above equation.

$d = (1 \frac{m}{s}) (3600 s) \sqrt{1 - {(\frac{0.900 c}{c})}^{2}}$

$d = 1569.2 m$

Therefore, the distance measured at ground station is

1569.2 m .

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