A spaceship is headed to earth with relative velocity 0.5c a) If the spaceship fires a projectile with at 0.9c with resp

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A spaceship is headed to earth with relative velocity 0.5c a) If the spaceship fires a projectile with at 0.9c with resp

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A spaceship is headed to earth with relative velocity 0.5c
a) If the spaceship fires a projectile with at 0.9c with respect
to the ship, what is the speed of the projectile with respect to
the earth
b) If the spaceship fired photons instead of bullets how fast
would the photons be moving relative to the target.
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