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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Inertial Mass
- Chapter 2. Relativistic Mass
- Chapter 3. The Mass-Energy Relation
- Chapter 4. Gravitational Mass and the Principle of Equivalence
- Chapter 5. The Nature of Mass
- Index