Problem 1: The energy E of a particle of mass m moving at speed v is...

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Problem 2: As we said in lecture, if you heat something up, it becomes more massive! Imagine you took 1 kg of water and heated it up by 50 deg C. By how much would it’s mass increase because of this heating? You might have to look up the heat capacity of water.

Expert Solution

From option 1 we can see for giving baseball the velocity half of the velocity of light c, will require the huge amount of energy. If we can supply that much energy then baseball will move on the velocity of half of c.

genius_generous answered 2 years ago

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