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A rocket ship carrying passengers blasts off to go from New York to Hong Kong, a distance of about 13,000 km. (a) How fast (in terms of c) must the rocket ship go to have its own length shortened by 1%? c (b) Ignore effects of general relativity and determine how much time (in s) the rocket ship's clock and the ground-based clocks differ when the rocket ship arrives in Hong Kong.