Author: Max Jammer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069114432X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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.