Concept — The rest energy of a body is proportional to its mass.
Present in chapters
20·22
Linked atoms
23 linked atoms.
19 Le equazioni di Maxwell e le onde elettromagnetiche
20 Relatività ristretta
- E = mc²
- Worked example — The Higgs boson at 0.8c
- Science fiction physics: c multiplied by ten
- Invariant mass of two photons
- Problem — Proof of the energy-momentum invariant
- Problem — Rest energy of the electron
- Problem — Energy of a fission bomb
- Problem — Particle or photon
- Ranking rest energies
- Fermi estimate: one gram of matter
- Problem — True or false: relativity
21 Introduzione alla meccanica quantistica
22 La fisica nucleare
- The Sun’s hydrogen consumption
- From mass defect to the reaction Q-value
- Mass defect of tritium
- Binding energy of iron
- Nuclear binding energy
- Worked example — more thermonuclear than the Sun
- Why fission is favourable
- Cobalt-60 atomic pile