Guest Dumass Posted December 8, 2003 Posted December 8, 2003 hi can anyone here help me solve this???
wolfson Posted December 8, 2003 Posted December 8, 2003 What was the question?, if unsure which variable do you want me to relate to??
Guest Dumass Posted December 9, 2003 Posted December 9, 2003 i'm from another forum & a member has posted this problem. i have no idea what it is or what it's asking for. any info. or input will be helpful
VendingMenace Posted December 9, 2003 Posted December 9, 2003 hmm...it appears to be as wolfson says. There doesn't really seem to be a question. What forum are you from, if you give us a link to the original post, perhaps that would shed some light on it?
Dudde Posted December 9, 2003 Posted December 9, 2003 as I was too hurried to say earlier when I saw this, and these two have just stated, there is no question give a link please
Guest Dumass Posted December 9, 2003 Posted December 9, 2003 i copied the problem from the posting.. oh btw it's not from a math/science forum... just a motorcycle forum... some one must have dug into his text book or something http://www.r1-forum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55773&perpage=20&pagenumber=1
wolfson Posted December 9, 2003 Posted December 9, 2003 E = sqrt( p^2c^2 + m^2c^4) E=f(m, p)) SR:- E = sqrt( p^2c^2 + m^2c^4) if E=mc^2 (m > 0 & p = 0) and E=pc (m = 0 & p > 0). Let E = f(m, p), where f(m,p) =mc^2 (m > 0 & p = 0) =pc (m = 0 & p > 0) = '?' ( m > 0 & p > 0) E=G^2=c^2 m = sqrt(c'/c)*m dimension of mc2 is [ M ][ L ]2/[ T ]2 These are preliminary answers I have worked, but I will have to study for a bit longer to contribute L^T.
wolfson Posted December 10, 2003 Posted December 10, 2003 I think the idea is that when E >> p the general formula for the energyof a particle with mass m and momentum p. E = (m^2 + p^2)^(1/2) can be approximated by keeping just the first two terms in the expansion E = p + m^2/2p + ... If you kept only the leading term in the expansion you would have E = p, which corresponds to a particle that travels at the speed of light.
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