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UFN, 1989 Volume 158, Number 3, Pages 511–530 (Mi ufn7675)

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METHODOLOGICAL NOTES

The concept of mass (mass, energy, relativity)

L. B. Okun'

Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow

Abstract: Present-day ideas concerning the relationship between mass and energy are presented. The history of the origin of archaic terms and concepts that are widely used in the literature in discussing the problem of mass and energy is related, and arguments are presented for the necessity of abandoning these archaic terms and concepts.

UDC: 530.12 :531[.18+51]

PACS: 45.20.dh, 04.20.-q

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0158.198907f.0511


 English version:
Physics–Uspekhi, 1989, 32:7, 629–638


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