4. Physics/ Relativity To travel to a nearby star, a spaceship is accelerated to 0.99c to take advantage of time dilation. If the ship has a mass of 3.0 x 10^6 kg, how much work must be done to get it up to speed from rest?

4. Physics/ Relativity To travel to a nearby star, a spaceship is accelerated to 0.99c to take advantage of time dilation. If the ship has a mass of 3.0 x 10^6 kg, how much work must be done to get it up to speed from rest?

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Chapter26: Relativity

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To travel to a nearby star, a spaceship is accelerated to 0.99c to take advantage of time dilation. If the ship has a mass of 3.0 x 10^6 kg, how much work must be done to get it up to speed from rest?

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