Concepts of mass in contemporary physics and philosophy / Max Jammer.

The concept of mass is one of the most fundamental notions in physics, comparable in importance only to those of space and time. But in contrast to the latter, which are the subject of innumerable physical and philosophical studies, the concept of mass has been but rarely investigated. Here Max Jamm...

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Main Author: Jammer, Max
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Inertial mass
  • Relativistic mass
  • The mass-energy relation
  • Gravitational mass and the principle of equivalence
  • The nature of mass.