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Date: 2022-02-18

Article ID: 41182

Energy and Momentum at All Speeds: Derivation

Article 77597 introduced equations that describe the relationships between an object's energy E, momentum \bfp, mass m, and velocity \bfv in special relativity. This article shows how those equations can be derived from something deeper.

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2022-06-11 (updated references to other articles in this series to link to html abstract pages instead of to pdfs. Didn't change the version number/date)
2022-02-18 (replaced one cross-reference with a better one)
2022-02-05 (reformatted title)
2022-01-16 (first version)

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