Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy

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• Max Jammer

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• Scienza

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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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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2009

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