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Consider a particle moving with a speed of 0.99c. How fast does the particle need to move in order to double its momentum?
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Relativistic momentum is given by
Here is the rest mass of the particle.
is the speed of particle.
We first find the initial momentum in terms of rest mass. We then apply the momentum formula for double momentum to find the speed of particle.
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