Answer by Samson for What percentage of a Proton's mass is potential/kinetic...
9 % of proton mass is potential and 91 % is kinetic energy, see for more details article.Original publication
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I took this image of the from the very instructive webpage of Matt Strassler. It shows impressive complexity. It illustrates that the sum of the rest masses of the naive quark composition uud, 9.4...
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Answer by Thomas for What percentage of a Proton's mass is potential/kinetic...
There are a number of subtleties, because in a field theory you must define what you mean by "potential" and "kinetic" energy, and there are issues with any decomposition that are related to gauge...
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So in an hydrogen atom, the total mass of the atom is equal to the masses of the proton, the electron, minus their net binding energy of around 13 eV. Making the total less massive than the sum of its...
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