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Potential energy has mass? Is that true? It means a rock at the top of a mountain has more mass than it does at the bottom of the mountain. And a stretched r
by DougN7 7y ago
Potential energy has mass? Is that true? It means a rock at the top of a mountain has more mass than it does at the bottom of the mountain. And a stretched rubber band has more mass than a relaxed rubber band. It’s been a looong time but I don’t recall learning this in physics.
- nomel 7y agoYou surely did, but the literal reality of the mass-energy equivalence maybe wasn't apparent: E = mc^2 A system with more potential energy will have more mass. See: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/274329/does-potential-energy-of-an-object-increases-its-relativistic-mass/274680 https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/274329/does-pote...