Mass in Relativity

Farook Rahaman ()
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Farook Rahaman: Jadavpur University, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 9 in The Special Theory of Relativity, 2014, pp 105-115 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In relativity, mass depends on the observer, i.e. mass is an observer dependent quantity. Chapter 9 discusses three methods for defining relativistic mass formula. The experiment made by Guye and Lavanchy to verify relativistic mass formula is also explained. Lorentz Transformation of relativistic mass is explained.

Keywords: Relativistic mass; Lorentz Transformation of relativistic mass (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2080-0_9

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