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A ? meson of rest energy 139.6MeV moving at a speed of
0.921c collides with and sticks to a proton of rest energy
938.3 MeV that is at rest. (a) Find the total relativistic
energy of the resulting composite particle. (b) Find
the total linear momentum of the composite particle.
(c) Using the results of (a) and (b), find the rest energy
of the composite particle.
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