A quick snippet of the derivation of Einstein’s Mass-energy equivalence equation. This is always good for some good late night reading.
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In the particle’s rest frame, the momentum is (mc,0) and so for the force four-vector to be orthogonal, its time component must be zero in the rest frame as well, so F = (0,F). Applying a Lorentz transformation to an arbitrary frame, we find
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Thus the time component of the relativistic version of Newton’s second law is
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Recalling the definition of work done by the applied force as
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and since the change in energy is given by the work done, we have
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and so finally we see that, up to an additive constant,
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from Wikipedia