cynar ,

A minor nit pick. It’s worth noting that increasing mass is an inaccurate view. It works in the simple examples, but can cause confusion down the line.

Instead, an additional term is introduced. This term, while it could be combined with the mass, is actually a vector, not a scalar. It has both value and direction, not just value. This turns your relativistic mass into a vector. Your mass changes, depending on the direction of the force acting on it! Keeping it as a separate vector can improve both calculations and comprehension, since comparable terms appear elsewhere (namely with time dilation and length contraction).

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