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Engineering Physics (ASB 202)

Unit-I Relativity
Assignment Problems

Q.1. Show that 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 + 𝑧 2 − 𝑐 2 𝑡 2 = 0 is invariant under Lorentz transformation.

Q.2. Coordinates of an event are (4mm, 5mm, 1mm, 12 pico sec). In another frame the coordinates are (x, 5mm, 1mm,

8 pico sec). Calculate x, using relativity.

Q.3 Show that the relativistic form of Newton`s second law, when 𝐹⃗ is parallel to 𝑣⃗ is

𝑑𝑣 𝑣 2 −3/2
𝐹⃗ = 𝑚𝑜 𝑑𝑡 (1 − 𝑐2
)

Q.4. An event happens according to an observer O at (1m, -2 m, -3 m, 2 X 10 -8 m/s). The same event occurs at (1 m,

4.67 m, -3m, 2.44 X 10 -8 m/s) w.r.t observer O`. Find the velocity of 𝑂` w.r.t to O.

Q.5. A spaceship moving away from the earth with velocity 0.6 c fires a rocket where velocity relative to the spaceship

is 0.7 c. What will be the velocity of the rocket, as observed from the earth in two cases

(a) Away from the earth (b) towards the earth.

Q.6. A cube has density 𝜌𝑜 w. r. t stationary observer. If the cube moves with velocity v w.r.t observer along one edge,

𝑘𝑔
then what is the density measured by an observer? Consider the density of lead on the earth is 1.1 × 103 .
𝑚3

What density would be found if the lead is moving at 0.8 c

Q.7. Let a proton move with a speed equal to 1% of the speed of light. By what percent, does its mass exceed its

proper mass? [ Use binomial expansion]

Q. 8. Velocity of light in frame A has components (0.35 c, 0. 6 c, a). In frame B, the components are (0.25 c, b, u).

Calculate a, b, u. The magnitude of c is 300 mega meter per second (i.e., velocity of light in vacuum).

Q. 9. A particle with a mean proper life time of 2 μ sec moves through the laboratory with a speed of 0.9 c.

Calculate its life time as measured by an observer in the laboratory.

Q. 10. A man weighs 50 kg on the earth, when he is in the rocket ship his mass is 50.5 kg as measured by the observer

on earth. What is the speed of rocket?

Q. 11. Compute mass and speed of an electron having kinetic energy 1.5 MeV. Given rest mass of an electron 𝑚𝑜 =

9.11 × 10−31 𝑘𝑔, 𝑐 = 3 × 108 𝑚/𝑠𝑒𝑐


Q. 12. What is the length of a meter stick moving parallel to its length when its mass is (3/2) times of its rest mass.

Q.13. A rod has a length of 2 m. Find its length when it is carried in a rocket with speed of 2.7 × 108 𝑚/𝑠.

Q. 14. Calculate the % contraction of a rod moving with velocity 0.8 c in a direction at 60o to its own length.

Q.15. Find the velocity at which the mass of an electron exceeds its proper mass by 1 %

Q.16. If the total energy of a particle is exactly thrice its rest energy, what is the velocity of the particle?

Q. 17 With what velocity should a rocket move so that every year spent on it corresponds to 4 years on earth?

Q. 18. A beam of particle of half life 2 × 10−8 𝑠𝑒𝑐, travels in the laboratory with speed 0.96 c. How much

distance, does the beam travel before the number of particles reduced to half times of the initial value.
𝑐
Q. 19. A particle of rest mass 𝑚𝑜 moves with speed . Calculate its mass, momentum, total energy and kinetic
√2

energy.

Q. 20. Calculate the amount of work done to increase the speed of an electron from 0.6 c to 0.8 c. Given the

rest mass energy of electron is 0.50 MeV

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