Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 29 - Relativity - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 1043: 47

Answer

$2.86\times 10^8m/s$

Work Step by Step

We can find the required speed as follows: $p^2=\frac{m^2v^2}{1-v^2/c^2}$ $\implies p^2(1-v^2/c^2)=m^2v^2$ This simplifies to: $v=\frac{p}{\sqrt{m^2+p^2/c^2}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $v=\sqrt{\frac{7.74\times 10^{20}}{(8.2\times 10^{11})^2+(7.74\times 10^{20}\times 3.00\times 10^8)^2}}$ $v=2.86\times 10^8m/s$
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