Momentum Conservation in Special Relativity: mwu

Feynmanisthegoat · Nov 25, 2020

the vertical component of momentum in the (b) figure before the collision is ∆p = m_wu. Can someone please explain why we take the mass in the world component and not the u component

PeroK · Nov 25, 2020

I can't see anything there.

Feynmanisthegoat · Nov 25, 2020

Ya man I am sorry this is my first post so I don't know what went wrong but it's figure 16.4 from the Feynman lectures on physics.

PeroK · Nov 25, 2020

Feynmanisthegoat said:

Ya man I am sorry this is my first post so I don't know what went wrong but it's figure 16.4 from the Feynman lectures on physics.

You're better to find some way to post it here.

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