In ptolemy’s earth-centered model for the solar system, venus always stays close to the sun in the sky and, because it always st
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Answer:
at the speed of light ()
Explanation:
The second postulate of the theory of the special relativity from Einstein states that:
"The speed of light in free space has the same value c in all inertial frames of reference, where "
This means that it doesn't matter if the observer is moving or not relative to the source of ligth: he will always observe light moving at the same speed, c.
In this problem, we have a starship emitting a laser beam (which is an electromagnetic wave, so it travels at the speed of light). The startship is moving relative to the Earth with a speed of 2.0*10^8 m/s: however, this is irrelevant for the exercise, because according to the postulate we mentioned above, an observer on Earth will observe the laser beam approaching Earth with a speed of .