what is meant by the rest mass energy of an


What is meant by the rest mass energy of an electron?

According to the Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the mass of a body (say a particle) occurs on the energy and on the momentum (velocity) with which the particle moves. So, we have a problem: is there a mass value that each observer can relate to? Yes: is the rest mass, that is the mass you could calculate in a frame of reference co-moving with the particle (in which the particle is still), that is the center-of-mass frame and that agree with the minimum value measurable for each observers.

 

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