Are you applying this to all three spatial components of p and V?
Bob at PC
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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu on behalf of Rauber, Joel
Sent: Mon 2/25/2008 2:59 PM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Invariant mass and relativist mass...
| Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Invariant mass and relativist mass...
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| Please read the Am.J. Physics paper "In Defense of Relativistic Mass".
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Do you prefer to write your relativistically correct momentum formula
as:
a) p = gamma*m*v
or
b) p = m*v
If you like (b) you are preferring a relativistic mass approach.
If you like (a) you are preferring an invariant mass approach.
OTOH, there probably is some reason why most current GR and SR (general
relativity and special relativity) practitioners follow approach (a),
and its not simply a matter of faddism.
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