Problem 1360. Special Relativity 101.

Created by Claudio Gelmi

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Gergely Patay on 19 Jan 2015

Note that the *correct* answer according to special relativity is still 1 kg.
(the mass does NOT change, unless some external scalar fields are involved)

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Mehmet OZC on 23 Apr 2013

From now on, I think "assert(isempty(strfind(filetext, 'interp1')))" should be considered!

Claudio Gelmi on 24 Apr 2013

You are right! :(

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