Finding relativistic force in terms of acceleration

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Homework Statement


The instantaneous force F acting on a particle, as measured in frame S, is
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Use the formula for the linear momentum (
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) in and the definition of the acceleration a to show that
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The Attempt at a Solution


The professor said that this required use of programs such as mathematica in order ot solve, however, I can't figure out a way to solve this, I can derive the force transformation into another inertial reference frame, but the equation needs to be in terms of acceleration in the S frame, not the S' frame. I just need to know where to start with this.
 
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It looks like you will need to treat ## \mathbf{u} ## and its magnitude as functions of ## t ## and take the time derivative of the expression given for ## \mathbf{p} ##.
 
Geofleur said:
It looks like you will need to treat ## \mathbf{u} ## and its magnitude as functions of ## t ## and take the time derivative of the expression given for ## \mathbf{p} ##.
Is there anyway to do this without expressing u in terms of t? In the prevoud question I found the velocity transformation as follows:
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