Wednesday, May 7, 2008

one atomic mass unit gives 931 Mev

1 a.m.u or 1 u is 1.66x 10*-27kg
Using E=mc*2 , the energy turn out to be 1.66 x 10*-27kg x square of speed of light.
approximately 931 MeV(rough value not to be used for examination purpose)