How Does the Lorentz Transformation Affect Observed Velocity?

Camilla · May 9, 2010

If an observer O' see a body that moves with constant velocity U_x along the axis x' in a positive direction. What is the velocity V_xO of body observed by O?
That is all the information I have.
Can you help? :blushing:

vela · May 10, 2010

There's not enough information to solve that problem. You need to know the velocity of O' relative to O.

How Does the Lorentz Transformation Affect Observed Velocity?

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