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Question
Calculate the energy equivalent of 1 atomic mass unit.
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Solution
Using Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence, the energy equivalent of one atomic mass unit
1u = 1.66 × 10-27 × (3 × 108)2
= 14.94 × 10-11 J ≈ 931 MeV
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