Consider a Spaceship That Moves Toward You at Half the Speed

question 50

Multiple Choice

Consider a spaceship that moves toward you at half the speed of light.It fires a probe toward you,relative to itself,at 0.7 the speed of light.Relative to you,the probe approaches at about

• A)70% c.
• B)87% c.
• C)89% c.
• D)92% c.
• E)96% c.

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