Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Science.


Fred G explains the mystery of two ducks passing each other in gunning range.
"The invariant mass of a particle is independent of its velocity v, whereas relativistic mass increases with velocity and tends to infinity as the velocity approaches the speed of light c. They can be defined as follows:
mr = E/c2
m0 = sqrt(E2/c4 - p2/c2)
where E is energy, p is momentum and c is the speed of light in a vacuum. The velocity dependent relation between the two is
mr = m0 /sqrt(1 - v2/c2)"

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