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 1045: 103

Answer

(a) $0.371c$ (b) $0.454c$ (c) $0.922c$

Work Step by Step

(a) We know that $v_{21}=\frac{v_{23}-v_{13}}{1-\frac{v_{23}v_{13}}{c^2}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $v_{21}=\frac{0-(-0.371c)}{1-0}$ $\implies v_{21}=0.371c$ (b) We know that $v_{21}=\frac{v_{23}-v_{13}}{1-\frac{v_{23}-v_{13}}{c^2}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $v_{21}=\frac{0.100c-(-0.371c)}{1-\frac{(0.100c)(-0.371c)}{c^2}}$ This simplifies to: $v_{21}=0.454c$ (c) We know that $v_{23}=\frac{v_{21}+v_{13}}{1+\frac{v_{13}v_{21}}{c^2}}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $v_{23}=\frac{0.454c+0.806c}{1+\frac{(0.454c)(0.806c)}{c^2}}$ $\implies v_{23}=0.922c$
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