The purpose of these pages is to explain E = mc2 in a clear, concise and understandable way with easily followed worked examples, and with further pages examining the special theory of relativity in order to describe its background. Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905 and in doing so discovered that mass and energy are actually the same thing, with one a tightly compressed manifestation of the other.
E = mc^2 With Worked Examples