Rest mass or inertial mass?
General Physics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Rest mass takes the place of inertial mass in modern physics textbooks. It seems to be wrong. But this phenomenon is hidden away by the facts that rest mass adherents busily call rest mass "mass", not rest mass, and the word "mass" is associated with a measure of inertia. This topic has been considered by the author in the article "What is mass?" [1, 2, 3]. Additional arguments to a confirmation of such a thesis are presented here.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0103008,
title = {Rest mass or inertial mass?},
author = {R. I. Khrapko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0103008},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 8 pages. I changed the Email-address ([email protected]), Sec. 3, and the translation from M. Planck (Ref. 16). The abstract is lengthened