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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ia Paper 4 4B Solution by
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Choose the two inertial frames to have coincident origins at , and let the origin of have . The Lorentz transformation isHere is the Lorentz factor. Along the particle's trajectory, , soDividing gives the relativistic velocity-addition formulaThe denominator is positive because . Direct algebra yieldssince both factors in the numerator are positive. Consequently : a subluminal velocity remains subluminal in every such inertial frame.
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