Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!whuxle!pyuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!mhuxm!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!kk9w From: kk9w@pur-ee.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: eV Message-ID: <1483@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jan-84 16:24:30 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1483 Posted: Fri Jan 27 16:24:30 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 31-Jan-84 02:33:24 EST Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 5 All of this talk has really got me curious. I always thought that the unit of mass was electron volts per c squared (eV/c^2). eV is a unit of energy, and I sure don't weigh 10 Joules. Dave