Jammer Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2378-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Jammer, Max

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xii

INTRODUCTION 3

CHAPTER 1 Inertial Mass 5

CHAPTER 2 Relativistic Mass 41

CHAPTER 3 The Mass-Energy Relation 62

CHAPTER 4 Gravitational Mass and the Principle of Equivalence 90

CHAPTER 5 The Nature of Mass 143

Index 169

Über Autor(innen)

Max Jammer, born in Berlin, Germany, is Research Professor of Physics at Bar-Ilan University, where he was formerly President and Rector. His books, translated into many languages, include Concepts of Space (with a foreword by Albert Einstein), The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics, The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, and, most recently, Einstein and Religion (Princeton). Among the awards he has received are the Israel Prize and the Monograph Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.