#27
"Maximum power, Scotty!" The starship Enterprise, of television and movie fame, is powered by a controlled combination of matter and antimatter.
If the antimatter fuel supply of the Enterprise, with a total mass of 360kg , combines with matter, how much energy is released?
Use c=2.998×108 meters per second for the speed of light in vacuum. Express your answer numerically, in joules, to three significant figures.
so we know overall mass (antimatter+matter) = 360 kg x 2 = 720 kg
E = 720 x (2.998x10^8)^2 = 6.47 x 10^19 J