3) (2pts) For the summer break you bought yourself a nifty little desk top Miche

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3) (2pts) For the summer break you bought yourself a nifty little desk top Michelson interferometer that accurately measures the speed of light. You take your LB CC-home commuter car for a spin on highway 5. After 20 miles of steady acceleration you reach 10% of the speed of light flying 10m above the road. 1 mile ahead of your position you see police cars that have built a roadblock. You turn on your brand new interferometer and measure the speed of light from the signals of the police cars. From your interferometer manual you remember that the speed of light is 2.997 x 10^8 m/s when the interferometer is positioned at a resting position. What speed do you measure?

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Yu measure the relative speed of light respect to yourself (90% of the speed of light)

2.6973X10^8

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