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How fast does an electron need to travel to weight twice as much as at rest? If your answer is in n c nc , where c c is the speed of light, submit n n as the answer to 3 decimal places.


The answer is 0.866.

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André Hucek
Oct 26, 2017

According to m = m 0 1 v 2 c 2 = m 0 1 β 2 \displaystyle m = \frac{m_0}{ \sqrt{1 - \frac{v^2}{c^2}}} = \frac{m_0}{ \sqrt{1 - \beta^2}} the desired velocity v v satisfies the condition:

m = m 0 1 v 2 c 2 = 2 m 0 \displaystyle m = \frac{m_0}{ \sqrt{1 - \frac{v^2}{c^2}}} = 2m_0

v = 3 2 c = 0.866 c \implies v = \displaystyle \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} c = \boxed{0.866\ c} .

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