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A spacecraft moving at 0.95c travels from the harth to the star Alpha Centauri, which is 4.5 light years away. How long will the trip take according to (a) harth clocks and (b) spacecraft clocks? (c) How far is it from harth to the star according to spacecraft occupants? (J) What do they compute their speed to be?

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A spacecraft moving at 0.95c travels from the harth to the star Alpha Centauri,

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