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Meanings of rest mass in English

Russian
масса покоя
Spanish
masa invariante

Mass of a particle at rest in an intertial frame.

масса покоя
Usage of rest mass in English
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So everything ends up on the same footing as rest mass?
Schild’s Ladder
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At zero velocity, it has only its rest mass energy-notuseful for our purposes.
Fire With Fire
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This is true even for photons, which do not have any rest mass at all.
Alice in quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
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This particle's rest mass is much lower than that.
The Naked God
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When they collided, this kinetic energy could be converted to rest mass energy, so that particles of higher mass could be created.
Alice in quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
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Each one has its own distinctive rest mass which serves conveniently to identify it, though there are also other, more subtle, differences.
Alice in quantumland: an allegory of quantum physics
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Stick to photons -no resting mass, no charge, no controversy on the human scale.
Solar
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