Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy

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Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy is written by Max Jammer and published by Princeton University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 069101017X (ISBN 10) and 9780691010175 (ISBN 13).

Jammer then devotes a chapter to the distinction between inertial and gravitational mass and to the various versions of the so-called equivalance principle with which Newton initiated his Principia but which also became the starting point of Einstein's general relativity, which supersedes Newtonian physics. The book concludes with a presentation of recently proposed global and local dynamical theories of the origin and nature of mass."--BOOK JACKET.