What is mass?
Abstract
Efforts after Newton to reform the concept of mass have not been entirely successful. The unitary Newtonian concept has now fragmented into various 'masses', including inertial mass, active gravitational mass and passive gravitational mass. This paper attempts to clarify the concept of mass.
- Publication:
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European Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- March 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0143-0807/26/2/002
- Bibcode:
- 2005EJPh...26..225R