Astarship blasts past the earth at 2.0*10^8 m/s .just after passing the earth, the starship fires a laser beam out its back of the starship. with what speed does the laser beam approach the earth? express your answer using two significant figures.

at the speed of light ()

Explanation:

The second postulate of the theory of the special relativity from Einstein states that:

"The speed of light in free space has the same value c in all inertial frames of reference, where "

This means that it doesn't matter if the observer is moving or not relative to the source of ligth: he will always observe light moving at the same speed, c.

In this problem, we have a starship emitting a laser beam (which is an electromagnetic wave, so it travels at the speed of light). The startship is moving relative to the Earth with a speed of 2.0*10^8 m/s: however, this is irrelevant for the exercise, because according to the postulate we mentioned above, an observer on Earth will observe the laser beam approaching Earth with a speed of .

it about 600 mph from what i calculated

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