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Can the initial time be non-zero?
I am just slightly confused about how initial time is chosen in mechanics. I keep thinking I have understood it but some doubts come up later.
Basically when I derived the constant acceleration ...
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A fast object (0.8c) getting overtaken by another fast object (0.9c): why don't times agree?
I'm trying to work on an exercise in Wolfgang Rindler's book "Introduction to Special Relativity" and I'm stuck on the following exercise:
Two particles move along the x-axis of S at velocities 0....
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