Understanding De Broglie Matter Waves: How to Simplify E/p=c^2/v?

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AStaunton
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Just a very quick question:

in my notes I have the velocity of a DeBroglie wave is given by:

[tex]\nu\lambda=2\pi\nu\frac{\lambda}{2\pi}=\frac{\omega}{k}=\frac{E}{p}=\frac{c^{2}}{v}[/tex]

I can't figure out how he want from E/p=c^2/v.

I think the assumption is made that E is approximately equal to mc^2+(1/2)mv^2 and p=mv:

[tex]\implies\frac{E}{p}=\frac{m_{0}c^{2}+\frac{1}{2}m_{0}v^{2}}{m_{0}v}[/tex]

but I still can't see how the above simplifies to c^2/v!
 
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