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Re: A Physics Quiz of a different type


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Originally Posted by compwiztobe View Post
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And yeah that. That's the velocity transform: u' = uv/(1+uv/c^2), u is the particle's velocity, v is the velocity of the prime frame relative to the non-prime frame.
There was a typo in my original post.

The relativistic addition of velocities is (u+v)/(1+u*v/c^2).


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