A space probe with a rest mass of 8.2 107 kg and a speed of 0.50c

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A space probe with a rest mass of 8.2 × 107 kg and a speed of 0.50c smashes into an asteroid at rest and becomes embedded within it. If the speed of the probe-asteroid system is 0.26c after the collision, what is the rest mass of the asteroid?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0321976444

5th edition

Authors: James S. Walker

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