Answer 1:
The moment something starts accelerating, you are violating the assumptions of special relativity, namely, that the reference frames aren't themselves changing. No, the special relativistic equations you are using don't work in this circumstance. In order to solve equations for what happens when something is accelerating, you need general relativity, which cannot be understood quantitatively with high school or lower division college-level mathematics. Click Here to return to the search form.
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