Question

Your physics professor is foolishly standing out in a field during a thunderstorm and measures two bolts of lightning to hit two trees at opposite ends of the field at exactly the same time. You, being considerably less foolish, are driving by in a car on a road right next to the field at a speed v when the lightning bolts strike the trees, one of which is in front of the car, the other of which is behind it. You happen to line up with the professor right when he observes the lightning bolts strike the trees. As measured by you in the car, A. the lightening bolts appear to hit at dofferent times, but once you factor in your speed in the car, you will agree that the bolts hit the trees at the same time. B. the lightening bolts do not hit both trees. C. the lightning bolts hit the trees at the same time. D. the lightening bolts do not hit the trees at the same time

Answer 1