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The proton mass is
kg, again
a pretty meaningless number. Masses will generally be given in terms
of the invariant mass,
. Masses of the proton and neutron
are about 1000 MeV
and the mass of the electron is about
0.5 MeV
. Often the mass will be given as `1000 MeV', with the
implied.
Physics Department
Wed Nov 6 08:30:28 GMT+0200 1996