2 Energy and matter

A more famous equation there may never be –

[latex]e = mc^2[/latex].

Its simple elegance gives the equivalence between matter and energy. The Einstein equation is step one in learning nuclear engineering because uranium will be fissioned to release huge amounts of energy for many different purposes.

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