Recent content by wuphys

I have a conceptual issue with wheel friction that has been bothering me for a while. Consider the wheels on a car set to cruise control such that they rotate with constant angular velocity. Neither the wheel nor the ground are deformable (so we can ignore rolling friction) and the wheels slip...

Never mind, I think I got the answer. The components of relativistic momentum are just equal.

Homework Statement This is my first time posting here, so please let me know if I do not have the proper format. A particle of mass M is at rest in the laboratory when it decays into three identical particles, each of mass m. Two of the particles have velocities and directions as shown (one...