Missiles are fired towards the earth from a spacecraft. The missiles are moving with a speed of 0.8c with respect to the spacecraft. If the spacecraft itself has a speed of 0.3c with respect to Earth, how fast are the missiles observed to travel with respect to Earth? What would be the speed of the missiles as predicted by Galilean transformation? Comment on this result.
Missiles are fired towards the earth from a spacecraft. The missiles are moving with a speed of 0.8c with respect to the spacecraft. If the spacecraft itself has a speed of 0.3c with respect to Earth, how fast are the missiles observed to travel with respect to Earth? What would be the speed of the missiles as predicted by Galilean transformation? Comment on this result.
