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Barn and Pole Paradox: Revisited
Physics Education Volume
  • Robert Cacioppo, Truman State University
  • Asim Gangopadhyaya, Loyola University Chicago
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Article
Publication Date
3-23-2012
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Abstract

We present two different paradoxes related to the length contraction in special relativity and explain their resolution.

Identifier
1203.5333
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Author Posting. © 2012. This article is posted here by permission of IOP Publishing Ltd. for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Physics Education Volume 47, Issue 5, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-9120/47/5/563

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Cacioppo, R and A Gangopadhyaya. "Barn and pole paradox: revisited." http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.5333.pdf