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What is the name of the experiment that proved time dilation using fast-moving planes?

What famous equation comes from special relativity?

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What famous equation comes from special relativity?
V = ir
a2 + b2 = c2
E=mc2
F = ma
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What is the name of the experiment that proved time dilation using fast-moving planes?
Young’s double slit
Hafele-Keating experiment
Michelson-Morley Experiment
Twin paradox
3
Who developed the theory of Relativity?
Stephen Hawking
Issac Newton
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
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The dilation means that:
Time moves slower the faster you go
Clocks in space break easily
Time is the same everywhere
Time is faster in strong gravity
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What are gravitational waves?
Sound waves and space
Earthquakes-like shakes in space
Ripples in space time caused by massive objects
Radiation from the sun
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What is the speed of light in a vacuum?
30,000 km/s
300,000 km/s
3,000,000 km/s
186,000 km/s
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What is the key idea behind special relativity?
Energy can’t be created or destroyed
Light slows down in a vacuum
The laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames
Gravity is a force
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What phenomenon proves general relativity through the bending of light?
Photoelectric effect
Redshift
Gravitational lensing
Black hole evaporation
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What does general relativity describe?
Mass-energy conversion
Gravity as the curvature of space-time
Speed of sound
Motion of planets
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According to relativity, what happens to mass as an object approaches the speed of light?
It decreases
It becomes infinite
It disappears
It stays the same