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Jammer, Max.

Concepts of mass in contemporary physics and philosophy /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Concepts of mass in contemporary physics and philosophy /Max Jammer.
Author:	Jammer, Max.
Published:	Princton, N.J. :Princeton University Press,2000, c1999.
Description:	xi, 180 p. ;25 cm.
Subject:	Mass (Physics)
ISBN:	9780691144320 (pbk.)

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

Concepts of mass in contemporary physics and philosophy /Max Jammer. - Princton, N.J. :Princeton University Press,2000, c1999. - xi, 180 p. ;25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The book begins with an analysis of the persistent difficulties of defining inertial mass in a noncircular manner and discusses the related question of whether mass is an observational or a theoretical concept. It then studies the notion of mass in special relativity and the delicate problem of whether the relativistic rest mass is the only legitimate notion of mass and whether it is identical with the classical (Newtonian) mass. This is followed by a critical analysis of the different derivations of the famous mass-energy relationship E=mc[superscript 2] and its conflicting interpretations.

ISBN: 9780691144320 (pbk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

510978
Mass (Physics)

LC Class. No.: QC106 / .J355 2000

Concepts of mass in contemporary physics and philosophy /
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245 1 0 $a Concepts of mass in contemporary physics and philosophy / $c Max Jammer.
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504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a "The book begins with an analysis of the persistent difficulties of defining inertial mass in a noncircular manner and discusses the related question of whether mass is an observational or a theoretical concept. It then studies the notion of mass in special relativity and the delicate problem of whether the relativistic rest mass is the only legitimate notion of mass and whether it is identical with the classical (Newtonian) mass. This is followed by a critical analysis of the different derivations of the famous mass-energy relationship E=mc[superscript 2] and its conflicting interpretations.
520 8 $a 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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