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A rocket ship is traveling through space at a speed of 5000 miles/hour. Someone inside a second rocket ship traveling toward the first ship at a speed of 3000 miles/hour turns on a flashlight. According to the theory of special relativity, what would be the measured speed of the flashlight beam if the measurement was taken by the observers in the first ship? (The speed of light is 669,600,000 miles/ hour.)

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A rocket ship is traveling through space at a speed of 5000 miles/hour. Someone inside a second rocket ship traveling toward the first ship at a speed of 3000 miles/hour turns on a flashlight. According to the theory of special relativity, what would be the measured speed of the flashlight beam if the measurement was taken by the observers in the first ship? (The speed of light is 669,600,000 miles/ hour.)






 
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