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Homework Statement
Two particles in a high-energy accelerator experiment approach each other head-on with a relative speed of 0.890c. Both particles travel at the same speed as measured in the laboratory. What is the speed of each particle, as measured in the laboratory?
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The Attempt at a Solution
I've interpreted the relative velocity between the two as 0.890c and the velocity of, say particle 2, to be -v wrt laboratory S and -v wrt S'. The answer appears to be 0.611c which is way off from what I've got.