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Old 23-03-2011, 09:53 PM
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Help with maths

I am, regretfully, mathematically challenged! I am trying to correct this but still come up against fairly simple things that stump me. I am currently reading "Why does E=MC2" By Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. I get most of the concepts, the maths stumps me. The authors state that the maths isn’t necessary to understand the book, but I am a bit compulsive and find anything I don’t fully comprehend a challenge.
The bit I am having trouble with is solving (cT)2=12+(vT)2 for T2. The result given is T2=1/(c2-v2) . I have tried to work out the steps but after so many years with no algebra, it’s a struggle!
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