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Basis of conversion factors for energy equivalents
<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="generator" content="Adobe GoLive 4"> <title>Basis of conversion factors for energy equivalents</title> <!-- Google Analtyics 4 --> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-9SLN1VEEJ2"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-9SLN1VEEJ2'); </script> <!-- End of Google Analytics 4 --> <SCRIPT async type="text/javascript" id="_fed_an_ua_tag" src="https://dap.digitalgov.gov/Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js?agency=DOC&subagency=NIST&pua=UA-37115410-46&yt=false&exts=ppsx,pps,f90,sch,rtf,wrl,txz,m1v,xlsm,msi,xsd,f,tif,eps,mpg,xml,pl,xlt,c"></script> <script src="/js/clickjack.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body text="black" bgcolor="#ffffe6" link="#7600ad" vlink="#330099" alink="#ff0099" background="/cuu/Images/BGROUND-GY.gif"> <a href="/cuu/index.html" title="Fundamental Physical Constants"><img src="/cuu/Images/HEAD-OvalTitle.gif" align="top" border="0" width="388" height="83" alt="The NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty" hspace="15"></a> <p><a href="/cuu/Constants/index.html" title="Fundamental Physical Constants"><img src="/cuu/Images/HEAD-FundCon2.gif" width="550" height="30" alt="Fundamental Physical Constants" border="0" hspace="15" vspace="3"></a><br clear="all"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%"> <tr> <td width="140" valign="top"><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica" color="#330099"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="108"> <tr> <td align="center" colspan="2"> <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#98d8ae" nowrap><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#750b15"><b>Constants<br> Topics:</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" nowrap bgcolor="#c9edd6"><a href="/cuu/Constants/index.html"><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#330099"><b>Values</b></font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" nowrap bgcolor="#c9edd6"><a href="/cuu/Constants/energy.html"><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#330099">Energy<br> Equivalents</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#c9edd6" nowrap><a href="/cuu/Constants/Citations/Search.html"><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#330099">Searchable<br> Bibliography</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#c9edd6"><a href="/cuu/Constants/background.html"><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#330099">Background</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <hr width="22" size="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/cuu/Constants/bibliography.html"><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#330099">Constants<br> Bibliography</font></a><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#330099"> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <hr width="22" size="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/cuu/index.html"><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#330099">Constants,<br> Units &<br> Uncertainty<br> home page</font></a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </font><img src="/cuu/Images/space.gif" ALT="" width="141" height="1"></td> <td valign="top" width="90%" align="left"><font face="Myriad Roman,Helvetica,Arial,Avante Garde, Geneva" size="5" color="#9e0011"><b>Basis of conversion factors for energy equivalents</b></font> <p><font face="Myriad Roman,Syntax,Arial,Helvetica">Conversion factors for energy equivalents are derived from the following relations:</font></p> <ul> <p><font face="AGaramond,Palatino,TimesRoman,Times" size="5"><i>E</i></font><font face="AGaramond,Palatino,TimesRoman,Times" size="5"> = <i>mc</i><sup>2</sup> = <i>hc</i>/<img src="/cuu/Images/itlambda.gif" width="12" height="14"> = <i>h</i><img src="/cuu/Images/nu.gif" ALT="nu" width="10" height="9"><i> </i>= <i>kT</i> </font></p> <p><font face="AGaramond,Palatino,TimesRoman,Times" size="5">1 eV = (<i>e</i>/C) J</font></p> <p><font face="AGaramond,Palatino,TimesRoman,Times" size="5">1 u = <i>m</i><sub>u</sub> = (<sup>1</sup>/<sub>12</sub>) <i>m</i> (<sup>12</sup>C) = 10<sup>-3</sup> kg mol<sup>-1</sup>/<i>N</i><sub>A</sub></font></p> <p><font face="AGaramond,Palatino,TimesRoman,Times" size="5"><i>E</i></font><font face="AGaramond,Palatino,TimesRoman,Times" size="5"><sub>h</sub> = 2<i>R</i><img src="/cuu/Images/inf.gif" width="12" height="21" align="absmiddle"><i>hc</i> = <img src="/cuu/Images/italpha.gif" width="12" height="9"><sup>2</sup><i>m</i><sub>e</sub><i>c</i><sup>2</sup>.</font></p> </ul> <ol> <p> </p> </ol> <p></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>