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Just as an interesting illustration I thought I would quote from the Physic syllabus document (revised 2003) that I am required (by law) to teach from:
"**explain qualitatively and quantitatively the consequence of special relativity in relation to:
*the relativity of simultaneity
*the equivalence between mass and energy
*length contraction
*time dilation
*mass dilation
**discuss the implications of mass increase, time dilation and length contraction for space travel
**Solve problems using
* l = l(rest) x sqrt (1 - (v^2/c^2))
* m= m(rest)/sqrt("1- (v^2)/c^2))"
etc
This has kinda forced local textbook writers to discuss velocity dependent mass, which they quite happily do.
Regards