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What is mass?

John Roche 2005 Eur. J. Phys. 26 225-242   doi: 10.1088/0143-0807/26/2/002  Help

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John Roche
Linacre College, Oxford OX1 3JA, UK
E-mail: john.roche@linacre.ox.ac.uk

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.

Print publication: Issue 2 (March 2005)
Received 4 June 2004, in final form 22 November 2004
Published 11 January 2005

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