Timeline for The mass-energy equivalence for rest mass
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| Apr 6, 2022 at 20:46 | comment | added | Shuheng Zheng | How is $(m-m_0)c^2$ equal to kinetic energy? it's equal to kinetic energy plus some terms with higher orders in v | |
| May 8, 2020 at 22:26 | answer | added | Roghan Arun | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 26, 2016 at 18:22 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 15, 2015 at 15:06 | comment | added | garyp | I'd go further and suggest that you purge any mention of "relativistic mass" from your brain. The concept is unnecessary and leads to confusion. It was abandoned many decades ago, but appears to persist. I'm not sure why. People must be reading old books. And perhaps writing new books based on old outdated books? | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 11:05 | comment | added | user10851 | Word of warning: never, never, never use the "relativistic mass" as a single symbol. Rest mass is $m$, "relativistic mass" is $\gamma m$. Hiding the $\gamma$ factor in with the $m$ is something physicists did about a century ago, before they knew any better, and it only leads to confusion. | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 10:33 | answer | added | Tomas Libutti | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 10:30 | answer | added | Sofia | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 10:29 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 15, 2015 at 10:28 | history | edited | Sofia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 15, 2015 at 10:19 | history | asked | Shadumu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |