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Relativistic
Time
Dilation
Time
duration
of
event
measured
in
the
spaceship.
Speed
of
passing
spaceship
relative
to
the
earth’s
inertial
frame
of
reference.
Time
duration
of
event
measured
on
Earth.
10.0
s
An
event
on
the
spaceship’s
inertial
reference
frame
lasts
10.0s.
An
observer
in
the
inertial
frame
of
the
Earth’s
observatory
measures
the
event
time
to
be
different.
t’
=
measured
time
on
Earth’s
inertial
frame
of
reference.
t
=
time
measured
onboard
the
ship`s
inertial
reference
frame.
v
=
relative
speed
of
the
inertial
reference
frames.
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