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Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Edition
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Special Theory of Relativity
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26-4 and 26-5: Time Dilation, Length Contraction
26-7: Relativistic Momentum
26-9: Mass and Energy
26-10: Relativistic Addition of Velocities

Question by Giancoli, Douglas C., Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Ed., ©2014, Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Inc., New York.
Problem 48
Q

Two spaceships leave Earth in opposite directions, each with a speed of 0.60c with respect to Earth.

  1. What is the velocity of spaceship 1 relative to spaceship 2?
  2. What is the velocity of spaceship 2 relative to spaceship 1?
A
  1. 0.882c0.882c
  2. 0.882c-0.882c
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