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: 69

Answer

$2.4Kg$

Work Step by Step

We can find the mass of the system after collision as follows: $\frac{2m_{\circ i}c^2}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}}=m_{\circ f}c^2$ This can be rearranged as: $m_{\circ f}=\frac{2m_{\circ}i}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $m_{\circ f}=\frac{2(0.240)}{\sqrt{1-(0.980)^2}}=2.4Kg$
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