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according to Newton's second law can you describe the particle which travel with speed of light

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Answered by sarayudesu31
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There are two things in our universe, one- matter, second- energy. Newton's laws of motion are for matters, which occupy some space and have some mass.
Now coming to query, First of all it is not possible for any matter to travel with speed of light or even close to it. For this, there is hypothesis given by Einstein on relativity. As per him, every object have two masses, one rest mass and second mass in motion.
He developed a formula relating both mass and energy, which is termed as energy mass equivalence. E=mc^2. Also see below pic

Above you can see, as speed of object approaches speed of light, mass tends to increase. And at speed of light, it becomes infinite. When the object is already traveling near the speed of light, it cannot move much faster, no matter how much energy it absorbs. Its momentum and energy continue to increase without bounds, whereas its speed approaches a constant value—the speed of light. This implies that in relativity the momentum of an object cannot be a constant times the velocity nor can the kinetic energy be a constant times the square of the velocity. Thus new dimension to Newton's law came into light, in which F=ma is not directly applicable, as here m is considered as rest mass not relativistic mass.
So, simple laws of morion provided by newton will not hold perfect to object moving at higher speed near to speed of light !

Answered by haihaaaminath
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Newton's laws of motion is applicable only when mass remains constant I.e the velocity of the particle remains less than 1000000 m/s. If it goes beyond that, the mass of the object increases and since the speed of light is 3×10 to the power 8, Newton's laws are not applicable to it

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