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- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Massey Energy Company was a coal extractor in the United States with substantial operations in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. By revenue, it was the fourth largest producer of coal in the United States and the largest coal producer in Central Appalachia.Founded: 1920 in Richmond, VirginiaHeadquarters: Richmond, Virginia, U.S.Number of employees: approx. 5,850Revenue: US$2.69 billion (2009)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massey_Energy
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In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the relationship between mass and energy in a system's rest frame, where the two values differ only by a constant and the units of measurement. The principle is described by the physicist Albert Einstein's famous formula: . The
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See moreMass–energy equivalence states that all objects having mass, or massive objects, have a corresponding intrinsic energy, even when they are stationary. In the rest frame of an object, where by definition it is motionless and so has no
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See moreUsing the Lorentz factor, γ, the energy–momentum can be rewritten as E = γmc and expanded as a power series:
For speeds much smaller than the speed of light, higher-order terms in this expression get smaller and smaller because v/c is small. For...
See moreAn object moves with different speeds in different frames of reference, depending on the motion of the observer. This implies the kinetic energy, in both Newtonian mechanics and relativity, is 'frame dependent', so that the amount of relativistic energy that an
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See moreIn some reactions, matter particles can be destroyed and their associated energy released to the environment as other forms of energy, such as light and heat. One example of such a
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See moreApplication to nuclear physics
The nuclear binding energy is the minimum energy that is required to disassemble the nucleus of an atom into its...
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