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Was relativistic mass necessary? [closed]
according to newton if velocity is constant then momentum will stay fix as mass would not change according to conservation of mass and if mass changer the newton will be wrong and if it does not then ...
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Can two objects of different mass experience the same air resistance? [duplicate]
This question is assuming that the objects have the same shape and size, but different masses. I know that all objects have the same gravitational acceleration on earth, which is about 9.8 m/s^2. ...
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How do objects with more mass accelerate when pushed downward?
This is kind of a simple question.
I was basing it off Newton's second law, $$F=ma$$
With the same applied force, an object with more mass will accelerate less.
However, what if two objects of unequal ...
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How does mass-energy equivalence work with chemical bonds? [duplicate]
If you have, for instance, 2 oxygen atoms and do E=mc2 to get their equivalent energy, you get about 2.38nJ. However, if you have diatomic oxygen, there's also the energy of the bond; about 0.8aJ. ...
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Rest Mass Energy
What exactly is the Rest mass energy? I know the usual goes Like it is total energy stored in mass $m$ that is in Rest. so for someone moving relative to the frame that the mass $m$ is in (a rest ...
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Is the mass of curved space, additional mass?
According to Einstein, mass, say in the form of matter, curves space. It is the curvature of space that gives rise to gravity. Now I have heard there is an energy associated with the curvature of ...
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How does mass relate to kinetic energy?
I was working on homework and I had to list what kinetic energy depends on. Interestingly, it turns out it's also based on mass, not only speed. Does anyone have an explanation?
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Why does an alpha particle traveling at the same speed as a beta particle have 'only' about twenty times the energy? Rather than over seven thousand? [closed]
An alpha particle travels at about half the speed as a beta particle, right? ~5% of light speed versus ~10%?
Therefore, if you doubled its velocity, its energy would roughly quadruple, correct? (Or ...
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Equation for relative Kinetic energy
Relative Kinetic energy is given by
K.E = ($\gamma$-1)$m_0$c²; where $m_0$ is rest mass
but can it also be given by this
K.E= $\frac{1}{2}\gamma m_0v²$;
where v is velocity of particle
can it?
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If matter is a form of energy, can it be converted into another form of energy?
I have been told that energy and mass are the same. What puzzles me is why don't we use the same units of measure for both if they are the same? The unit of mass is kg and the unit of energy is the ...
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Energy and momentum & the relation between them
I am trying to wrap my head around energy, mass and momentum, especially in the more general scope of special relativity where massless objects moving at the speed of light also have momentum. So I am ...
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Confusion in calculation of power [duplicate]
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Sand is being dropped from a stationary dropper at a rate of 0.5 kg s$^{-1}$ on a conveyor belt moving with a velocity of 5 ms¹. The power needed to keep belt moving with the same velocity ...
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Total energy "exertion" raising and lowering a weight
I'm thinking of the example of somebody raising and lowering some kind of weight, say a barbell and what effect the total time takes to perform the whole raising and lowering action would have on the ...
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How is the energy content in 1 kg of water and petrol the same?
We know petrol is a fuel and water is not. But how come 1 kg of water and 1 kg of petrol have the same energy content? The total energy is given by $E=mc^2$, it says nothing about the chemical ...
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Calculate Kinetic Energy of electron from effective mass?
The effective mass of an electron, due to special relativity, lower than the real mass. So I thought one can calculate from the mass ratio the velocity as it is dependent by a factor of $\sqrt{1-v^2/c^...
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Massive equivalent of a photon and deduction of a photon's linear momentum
Since photons have an energy given by $E=h\nu$, we could define a particle whose rest mass is such that it has the same energy than the photon: $E=m_0c^2 \Longrightarrow m_0=\frac{h\nu}{c^2}$. We now ...
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Can matter be mass and energy simultaneously? [closed]
I am well aware of the fact that this question is very elementary and I should not have posted it on StackExchange. I wouldn't have had, but most of the reddit forums where I ask questions have gone ...
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Does kinetic energy rely on the observer mass too since velocity is relative?
There is no 'correct' inertial reference frame according to relativity. Objects are only 'in motion' relative to an arbitrary inertial reference frame. So let us take the following example. A person ...
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"Information Catastrophe" and measuring density of planets?
In the article https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.01937.pdf the term "Information catastrophe" is explained. Suppose the later proposed experiment by this author https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10....
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Why protons and neutrons don't have less mass than their constituents?
A system of gravitational attracted objects weight less than the sum of their individual masses because it needs energy to move them apart and overcome the gravitational attraction. Same is true for ...
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Is effective mass used in calculating kinetic energy of electron in semiconductor?
Is effective mass used in calculating kinetic energy of electron in semiconductor? I recall it was just used to take into account the internal forces so that expression of force fits well. But why
$...
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How does most energy get transfered to mass at high relavistic speeds, but mostly to movement at low speeds?
From what I understand about relativity, it is impossible to accelerate a massive object to the speed of light because it's mass would become infinite. Once an object is moving close to the speed of ...
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Derivation of Energy-Mass Equivalence: Total energy = kinetic energy $+ mc^2$ [duplicate]
How do you derive the energy mass equivalence just from special relativity? To be exact, in this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ8G4VKoSpQ, at around 23 minutes in, he claims that the total ...
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Change of velocity without doing work
Body of mass $1\rm\, kg$ is moving towards left side at velocity of $-2\rm\,m/s$ and is slowing down due to the constant external force until it stops. After that, it's speeding up towards the right ...
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Considering $E=mc^2$, what really is a Joule?
A newton is defined as the force able to accelerate a mass of $1kg$ by $1m.s^{-2}$ : $1N=1kg.m.s^{-2}$.
Then, a joule is defined as the work done by a force of $1N$ moving an object by $1m$ : $1J = 1N....
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Does the intrinsic energy of an object vary, if measured at different heights in a gravity field?
The gravitational redshift has different interpretations. Several quantities vary with height (or seem to), by the same equation - time, energy, mass. I wondered if measurements can shed some light on ...
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Is there a proven causality that energy-matter causes curvature in spacetime?
I'm not very knowledgable in physics, sorry.
I've read and (somewhat) understood that energy-matter causes space-time to curve but I was wondering about the causality in the statement.
Is this ...
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Besides traveling at the speed of light, how can we be sure that it is possible to have energy and momentum without mass?
How can we be sure that it is possible to have energy and momentum without mass? If something were to continually lose energy, would it not also lose a corresponding amount of mass? I understand that ...
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Would it be possible to design a dart-like object such that it survives re-entry and impact at interplanetary / interstellar speeds?
I was wondering about spacecraft - specifically just getting from point A to B. If you were unconcerned about human survival and damage from g-forces, it would be much easier to deliver it without the ...
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Nuclear fusion kinetic energy nucleons theory
Is this theory correct?
I got this theory from a nuclear fusion expert in stack exchange and he told me to confirm it here...
The theory:
When two nuclei come closer enough (due to external energy ...
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Relationship between mass, momentum and kinetic energy
Is there any fundamental reason why (at least mathematically) momentum is the integral of mass wrt velocity and kinetic energy the integral of momentum also wrt velocity? ie
$$p= \int m \ dv = mv$$
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Kinetic energy with respect to center of mass frame (COM) [closed]
Let there be an object having some chemicals in it. It starts moving with a uniform velocity $v$ and a chemical reaction starts happening. In this case, which of the following statement/s is/are ...
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Mass-energy equivalence and gravitational potential energy
If mass and energy are equivalent, and if gravitational potential energy is energy, why doesn't an object have more mass when it is at a higher altitude? Does the mass-energy equivalence work for ...
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Tightly bound energy configuration for nucleons?
In fusion, why are nucleons of the product nucleus tightly bound and in a lower energy configuration than the nucleons in the reactant nuclei? I think the reason a large amount of energy is released ...
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Negative potential energy
In fusion of hydrogen into helium, hydrogen has negative potential energy which adds up and results in a mass defect..
Doubts:-
Why is there negative potential energy between the nucleons in a ...
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Nuclear fusion mass defect and energy production
In researching the topic of nuclear fusion, I have a few doubts related to the mass defect, 'negative' potential energy and resultant energy released as a by-product of nuclear fusion.
When two ...
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What is the exact ratio of dark energy to mass?
I need to know the exact ratio between mass and dark energy (total dark energy in the universe / total mass in the universe). I could only find it to 2 decimal points (0.68). I need this to make this ...
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Why relativistic mass of a body increases with its speed? [duplicate]
We know the formula,
$$m = m_0/(1-v^2/c^2)^{1/2}$$
since $v$ is usually way less than $c$, ($v^2/c^2$) is less than one which indicates a body's mass increases when it has a speed. Can someone please ...
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Has it been experimentally proven that energy causes gravity?
I know that under general relativity energy and mass are equivalent under $E=mc^2$. But has it been experimentally proven that energy alone causes gravity, for example, does a nuclear reaction ...
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What is the gravitational pull of a photon? [duplicate]
I know it may seem like a stupid question, but I recently found out that because a photon has energy (obviously) then it must have a gravitational pull. I was wondering exactly what this gravitational ...
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Internal energy bound configuration in nuclear fusion [closed]
I have read that
when a reaction occurs in which the products of the reaction are in a
less energetic state than the reactants, the kinetic energy of the
products is increased over that of the ...
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Does the energy of the strong force have mass? [closed]
The mass of a proton is said to predominantly be "comprised" of the mass of the strong force interactions within the proton. Logically, one could conclude that the energy (the strong force ...
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Can't wrap my head around the energy formula being half of mass times velocity squared [duplicate]
I'm trying to understand the "Why" of this equation but can't make sense of it, my intuition breaks down.
When I think intuitively of energy, I think of "How powerful the impact will be ...
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Why is internal energy of nucleons ∝ to binding energy? [duplicate]
In fusion , as two light nuclei fuse , the relative binding energy experienced by each nucleon is increased and hence the internal energy of the nucleons is decreased which by E=mc² causes a decrease ...
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Energy of particle in equilibrium [closed]
Suppose I have a mass let say a mass of M kg
Imagine, it is in equilibrium
No force is acting on it
Due to no force its energy must be zero .
But why it is said that mass at rest also has energy ...
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Nuclear FISSION origin
Neutrons and protons consist of quarks, and when a neutron and a proton are squeezed tightly enough together, the quarks in each begin to interact and cause them to attract one another. The resulting ...
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Loss in mass due to energy decrease
As an object cools down it looses energy. As $E=mc^2$ I would also assume this would correspond to a decrease in the mass of the object. When the energy is released from the substance this corresponds ...
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Mass: a form of energy [closed]
Einstein's $E=mc^2$ and law of conservation of energy implies that mass is a form of energy, but if it is a form of energy then why can we freely interact with mass while the other forms of energy are ...
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What is the effect of a tangential force on a rigid body in terms of kinetic energy? [duplicate]
Let's take into consideration a sphere. We apply a force F tangent to the sphere.
We know that the linear acceleration of that sphere will be equal to F/m where m is the total mass of the sphere.
Then ...
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How much of Earth's mass is created by the energy of the core?
I've read that higher energy means higher mass, and in atomic systems, the kinetic energy and potential energy actually contributes more mass than the actual particles themselves (or so I've read). So,...
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