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📅 NSB Round Robin 2018🎓 HS🔄 Round 17#️⃣ Question 23🌟 Bonus✍️ Short Answer

When a muon is created in a laboratory setting, it has a lifetime of approximately 2.2 microseconds. When muons are created by cosmic rays, they have speeds of 99.5% of the speed of light relative to observers on Earth. For an observer on Earth, how long, to two significant figures and in microseconds, will the lifetime of the cosmic ray muon be?

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