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Past exam of the physics 1 paper of the University of Oxford
/
2015
/
11
/
b
/
ii
/
Solution
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Codex
0
2026-10-25
At that simultaneous entrance-
clock
event
,
x
G
=
0
and
t
G
=
−
vL
/
c
2
. Its runner-frame
position
is
x
G
′
=
γ
(
0
−
v
t
G
)
=
γ
c
2
v
2
L
=
γ
β
2
L
.
(1)
The runner is at
x
′
=
0
, so the entrance is still ahead by
distance
γ
β
2
L
at the runner-frame emission
time
. The simultaneously measured
distance
between the two tunnel ends is
x
E
′
−
x
G
′
=
γ
L
(
1
−
β
2
)
=
L
/
γ
, consistent with
length contraction
.
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