Add to ORKGIt is argued that Newtonian mass cannot be reduced to kinematical quantities---distance, velocity and acceleration---without losing the explanatory and predictive power of Newtonian Gravity
Does the mass of bodies depend on their velocity? Is the mass additive if separate bodies are joined...
The sameness between the inertial mass and the gravitational mass is an assumption and not a consequ...
The underlying idea in Mach's principle is that the origin of inertia or mass of a particle is a dyn...
It is argued that Newtonian mass cannot be reduced to kinematical quantities---distance, velocity an...
Laplace wondered about the minimal choice of initial variables and parameters corresponding to a wel...
Comparativism---the view that mass ratios are not grounded in absolute masses---faces a challenge by...
Absolutism about mass claims that mass ratios obtain in virtue of absolute masses. Comparativism den...
Absolutism about mass within Newtonian Gravity claims that mass ratios obtain in virtue of absolute ...
Intertheoretic reduction in physics aspires to be both to be explanatory and perfectly general: it e...
I offer one possible explanation of why inertial and gravitational mass are equal in Newtonian gravi...
The concept of mass was introduced as a mathematical abstraction and unifying principle in physics b...
I analyze the meaning of mass in Newtonian mechanics. First, I explain the notion of primitive ontol...
Newton introduced the absolute space as a basis of his mechanics. Inertia causes the resistance of m...
Mach's definition of mass is completed and simplified. An operative definition of inertial reference...
Rest mass takes the place of inertial mass in modern physics textbooks. It seems to be wrong. This t...
Does the mass of bodies depend on their velocity? Is the mass additive if separate bodies are joined...
The sameness between the inertial mass and the gravitational mass is an assumption and not a consequ...
The underlying idea in Mach's principle is that the origin of inertia or mass of a particle is a dyn...
It is argued that Newtonian mass cannot be reduced to kinematical quantities---distance, velocity an...
Laplace wondered about the minimal choice of initial variables and parameters corresponding to a wel...
Comparativism---the view that mass ratios are not grounded in absolute masses---faces a challenge by...
Absolutism about mass claims that mass ratios obtain in virtue of absolute masses. Comparativism den...
Absolutism about mass within Newtonian Gravity claims that mass ratios obtain in virtue of absolute ...
Intertheoretic reduction in physics aspires to be both to be explanatory and perfectly general: it e...
I offer one possible explanation of why inertial and gravitational mass are equal in Newtonian gravi...
The concept of mass was introduced as a mathematical abstraction and unifying principle in physics b...
I analyze the meaning of mass in Newtonian mechanics. First, I explain the notion of primitive ontol...
Newton introduced the absolute space as a basis of his mechanics. Inertia causes the resistance of m...
Mach's definition of mass is completed and simplified. An operative definition of inertial reference...
Rest mass takes the place of inertial mass in modern physics textbooks. It seems to be wrong. This t...
Does the mass of bodies depend on their velocity? Is the mass additive if separate bodies are joined...
The sameness between the inertial mass and the gravitational mass is an assumption and not a consequ...
The underlying idea in Mach's principle is that the origin of inertia or mass of a particle is a dyn...