Thursday, July 21, 2011

A relativity question...?

After being produced in a particle collision, a positive pion must travel down a 1.2 km beam tube to reach an experimental area. A positive pion has a lifetime in is rest frame of 2.6e-8 s. How fast must the pion travel if it is not to decay before it reaches the end of the tube?

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