a puzzle for you about relativity etc, page-29

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    That Youtube vid is clever, but is makes the slight error of saying that the m in E = mc2 is the rest mass, whereas it's the total mass, i.e. the rest mass + the extra mass due to the object's velocity.

    If the object is at rest, m is equal to the rest mass (m0)
 
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