Re: Converting the masses

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From: Mark Corscadden
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 05:41

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In article <1992Aug5.034715.4091@smsc.sony.com> I wrote:
|>Erratum:  In a previous post I gave the invariant mass of a system
|>consisting of two 1kg objects moving away from each other at 0.995
|>lightspeed as 20kg.  Now that I have some reliable tools at my
|>disposal I've recalculated this correctly.  The answer should have been
|>
|>	2 * (gamma + 1)
|>
|>where gamma = 1 / sqrt(0.009975).  That comes to about 22.025, not 20.

Opps, that should have been sqrt of the value given above, which is
more like 4.693.

Mark Corscadden
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