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Center-of-mass velocity
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2026-10-24
For fixed classical particle
masses
, differentiating the
center of mass
position
gives the displayed
mass
-weighted
velocity
. The total
momentum
is
M
V
CM
. The relativistic zero-
momentum
frame instead has
velocity
c
2
P
/
E
; treating rest
mass
as
the only
weight
there generally fails.
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