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Problem 20 Easy Difficulty

Spaceship $R$ is moving to the right at a speed of 0.70$c$ with respect to Earth. A second spaceship, $L,$ moves to the left at the same speed with respect to Earth. What is the speed of $L$ with respect to $R$ ?

Answer

0.285$c$
0.94$c$

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Gravitation

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Relativity

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