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Is mass a measure of inertia?

Herrmann, Friedrich ORCID iD icon 1; Pohlig, Michael 1
1 Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik (TFP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract (englisch):

Mass is usually introduced as a measure of the inertia of a body. But what do we mean by inertia anyway? We introduce a measure of inertia. It turns out that for high, relativistic velocities neither the rest mass nor the relativistic mass fulfills the requirements for a meaningfully defined measure of inertia. But how are we going to talk about inertia in the physics lesson? How can we use students' everyday language and still arrive at a clear conceptualization? We will try to give an answer to these questions.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000157960
Veröffentlicht am 21.04.2023
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik (TFP)
Publikationstyp Lehrmaterialien
Publikationsdatum 19.04.2023
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000157960
Schlagwörter Inertia, relativistic mass, longitudinal mass
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