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teve
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The last post in the thread https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=466305 seems to say that the relativistic force on a mass moving on a circular path is the centripetal acceleration, v*v/r, times rest mass times gamma squared.
But the articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force#Special_relativity and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_theory_of_relativity#Force seem to suggest the force is the centripetal acceleration time rest mass times just gamma.
What am I missing? Are the situations different? If so, how?
But the articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force#Special_relativity and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_theory_of_relativity#Force seem to suggest the force is the centripetal acceleration time rest mass times just gamma.
What am I missing? Are the situations different? If so, how?