SOLUTION: if you are traveling in a car going 30 mph and another car passes you from behind at 35 mph, how fast does it appear to be traveling to you? what if it is going in the opposite dir
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Question 878474: if you are traveling in a car going 30 mph and another car passes you from behind at 35 mph, how fast does it appear to be traveling to you? what if it is going in the opposite direction from you?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Moving in the same direction, the speed of an object wrt another is the the difference in speed wrt another frame of reference.
wrt = with respect to
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