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📅 NSB 2019🎓 HS🔄 Round 13#️⃣ Q23🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Consider a relativistic spaceship moving at 0.6 times the speed of light c relative to Earth. If this spaceship fires a particle that moves at 0.6c relative to the spaceship in the same direction as the spaceship, what is the ratio of particle's velocity to the speed of light as seen by an observer on Earth?

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