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Relativity    

    Question 2 

If you solve for 'v', you will get

           

which, in this example, gives v = X. 

As you can see, the electron is traveling almost at the speed of light in vacuum, and we say that this is a relativistic electron.

Now, you can calculate the electron speed and check your result here.


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