If you want to know how we transformed  into , here are the steps:

Start with
Expand the squares
Move all the t s to one side
Collect the t 2 s on the left side
Divide both sides by c 2
Simplify by canceling the c 2 s
Move 1- v 2 / c 2 to the left side
Take the square root of both sides

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