Einstein's Derivation of E=mC2: English Translation

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¿How did Einstein derived that E=mC2?. ¿ Can I find an english translation of his original paper?.
 
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Iraides Belandria said:
¿How did Einstein derived that E=mC2?. ¿ Can I find an english translation of his original paper?.

See
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/e_mc2.pdf
(there is translated in english the second article Einstein published in Annalen der physik about special relativity -thanks dex, i missed last- in german)
 
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It was his second article on SR in 1905 and the IV-th overall in that year.

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/chron-1905.htm

Daniel.
 
thanks Rebel and dextercioby for the required information
 
You can simply take this integral and you'll get E = mc^2

\int^c_0{P dv} ;

where P = mv\gamma

and \gamma = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - (\frac{v}{c})^2}}

\int^c_0 {\frac{mv}{\sqrt{1 - (\frac{v}{c})^2}} dv = mc^2
 
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