You are doing a thought experiment with your physics teacher. Suppose a high speed train moving at 0.80c is approaching you. Your physics teacher on the train has a tennis ball launcher that fires a ball toward you at a speed of 0.55c relative to the train. What is the speed of the tennis ball launched from the tennis ball launcher as observed by you

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You are doing a thought experiment with your physics teacher. Suppose a high speed train moving at 0.80c is approaching you. Your physics teacher on the train has a tennis ball launcher that fires a ball toward you at a speed of 0.55c relative to the train. What is the speed of the tennis ball launched from the tennis ball launcher as observed by you?

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