The "Relativistic" Mug

Abstract

This note is an attempt to explain in simple words why the famous relation $E=m{c}^2$ misrepresents the essence of Einstein's relativity theory. The note is addressed to high-school teachers, and a part of it - to those university professors who permit themselves to say that the mass of a body increases with its velocity or momentum and thus mislead the teachers and their students. ----- Contains both English and Russian versions.

8 pages, 1 figure in English (9 pages, 1 figure in Russian)

References in corpus (2)

• The theory of relativity and the Pythagorean theorem
• The Einstein formula: E_0=mc^2 "Isn't the Lord laughing?"

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Relativistic mass and modern physics
• Finite Mathematics, Finite Quantum Theory and Applications to Gravity and Particle Theory
• Newton's Second Law and the Concept of Relativistic Mass