Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy

Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9780691144320
ISBN-13 : 069114432X
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Download or read book Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy written by Max Jammer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jammer then devotes a chapter to the distinction between inertial and gravitational mass and to the various versions of the so-called equivalance principle with which Newton initiated his Principia but which also became the starting point of Einstein's general relativity, which supersedes Newtonian physics. The book concludes with a presentation of recently proposed global and local dynamical theories of the origin and nature of mass."--BOOK JACKET.


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