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vin300
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I saw today in Ohanian's book:
"It is convenient to separate particle energies into kinetic and rest mass energies:
M=∑m +(∑T/c^2 +U/c^2)
The term in the paranthesis is negative for a bound system,hence the total mass is less than the sum of the particle rest masses"
I thought the rest masses were indeed less.If it is otherwise, there's a problem with the Energy momentum four vector
"It is convenient to separate particle energies into kinetic and rest mass energies:
M=∑m +(∑T/c^2 +U/c^2)
The term in the paranthesis is negative for a bound system,hence the total mass is less than the sum of the particle rest masses"
I thought the rest masses were indeed less.If it is otherwise, there's a problem with the Energy momentum four vector
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