Quote Originally Posted by pgil
eg. I clock the train at 50MPH. I know the maximum velocity for the ball is 200MPH and know this is it's current speed. I add the two vectors and come up with 206MPH [SQRT(200E2 + 50E2)]
wrong, if it was like this noone would know einstein. the point is, that the ball cant go faster than 200MPH and just adding the two velocity vectors is not allowed for that reason. instead of adding the vectors we have to acclerate/[english word for negative acceleration] the relative movement of time.