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.
Additional notes
- MIT Open Courseware – Introduction to Applied Nuclear Physics
- MIT Open Courseware – Relativity
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – The equivalence of mass and energy
- Einstein archives online
- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics – Lecture notes on general relativity
- Feynman Hughes Lectures
1966 – 1971