 |
| E = mc² statue in Berlin, Germany |
Albert Einstein's seminal paper
Does the inertia of the body depend upon its energy content? was published in the journal
Annalen der Physik, which was one of the four
Annus Mirabilis papers. This paper led to the famous mass-energy equivalence equation
E = mc². This equation implies that energy of a body at rest (
E) equals its mass (
m) times the speed of light (
c) squared. It can be used to calculate how much mass goes along with the the removed energy, in fact, it was used to predict how much energy will be released or consumed by nuclear reactions.
No comments:
Post a Comment