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• (1) The first thing you should do is draw a spacetime diagram. Since light rays have speed c, we have

  

  and

  

  For low velocities of the rocket, you can use the Newtonian equations of motion to substitute for and . Finally expand and neglect terms of order and .

• The rest of the assignment is just applying the results in section 6.4 of the lecture notes.