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

Start with
Expand the squares
Move all the ts to one side
Collect the t2s on the left side
Divide both sides by c2
Simplify by canceling the c2s
Move 1-v2/c2 to the left side
Take the square root of both sides

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