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  2. Mass in special relativity - Wikipedia

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    The invariant mass is calculated excluding the kinetic energy of the system as a whole (calculated using the single velocity of the box, which is to say the velocity of the box's center of mass), while the relativistic mass is calculated including invariant mass plus the kinetic energy of the system which is calculated from the velocity of the ...

  3. Gravitational time dilation - Wikipedia

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    = is the escape velocity, and β e = v e / c {\displaystyle \beta _{e}=v_{e}/c} is the escape velocity, expressed as a fraction of the speed of light c. To illustrate then, without accounting for the effects of rotation, proximity to Earth's gravitational well will cause a clock on the planet's surface to accumulate around 0.0219 fewer seconds ...

  4. Galaxy rotation curve - Wikipedia

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    The mass estimations for galaxies based on the light they emit are far too low to explain the velocity observations. [ 3 ] The galaxy rotation problem is the discrepancy between observed galaxy rotation curves and the theoretical prediction, assuming a centrally dominated mass associated with the observed luminous material.

  5. Newton's law of universal gravitation - Wikipedia

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    The theorem tells us how different parts of the mass distribution affect the gravitational force measured at a point located a distance r 0 from the center of the mass distribution: [13] The portion of the mass that is located at radii r < r 0 causes the same force at the radius r 0 as if all of the mass enclosed within a sphere of radius r 0 ...

  6. Time dilation - Wikipedia

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    When unspecified, "time dilation" usually refers to the effect due to velocity. After compensating for varying signal delays resulting from the changing distance between an observer and a moving clock (i.e. Doppler effect ), the observer will measure the moving clock as ticking more slowly than a clock at rest in the observer's own reference ...

  7. Kinetic energy - Wikipedia

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    In classical mechanics, the kinetic energy of a point object (an object so small that its mass can be assumed to exist at one point), or a non-rotating rigid body depends on the mass of the body as well as its speed. The kinetic energy is equal to 1/2 the product of the mass and the square of the speed. In formula form:

  8. Mass–energy equivalence - Wikipedia

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    Mass–energy equivalence states that all objects having mass, or massive objects, have a corresponding intrinsic energy, even when they are stationary.In the rest frame of an object, where by definition it is motionless and so has no momentum, the mass and energy are equal or they differ only by a constant factor, the speed of light squared (c 2).

  9. Velocity dispersion - Wikipedia

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    A central velocity dispersion refers to the σ of the interior regions of an extended object, such as a galaxy or cluster. The relationship between velocity dispersion and matter (or the observed electromagnetic radiation emitted by this matter) takes several forms – specific correlations – in astronomy based on the object(s) being observed.