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Energy and Mass in Relativity Theory.
Title:
Energy and Mass in Relativity Theory.
Author:
Okun, Lev B.
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9789812814128
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1 online resource (323 pages)
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Contents -- Preface -- 1. On the Photon Mass Written together with 1. Yu. Kobzarev, Soviet Physics Uspekhi 11 (1968) 338-341. -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PHOTON MASS AND VELOCITY OF LIGHT AND OF RADIO WAVES -- 3. PHOTON MASS AND STATIC FIELDS -- 4. PHOTON MASS AND BLACKBODY RADIATION -- CONCLUSION -- 2. Mass, Energy, and Momentum in Einstein's Mechanics (x, /3, J ... Z. A Primer in Particle Physics (Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), pp. 9-13. -- 3. The Concept of Mass Physics Today, June 1989, pp. 31-36. -- References -- 4. Putting to Rest Mass Misconceptions Reply to Letters of W. Rindler, M. A. Vandyck, P. Murugesan, S. Ruschin and C. Sauter, Physics Today, May 1990, pp. 13, 115, 117. -- REFERENCES -- 5. The Concept of Mass (Mass, Energy, Relativity) Soviet Physics Uspekhi 32 (1989) 629-638. -- 1. A small test Instead of an Introduction -- I. FACTS -- 2. Mass in Newtonian mechanics -- 3. Gallleo's principle of relativity -- 4. Einstein's principle of relativity -- 5. Energy, momentum, and mass In the theory of relativity -- 6. limiting cases of the relativistic equations -- 7. Connection between the force and acceleration in the theory of relativity -- 8. Gravitational attraction In the theory of relativity -- 9. Mass of a system of particles -- 10. Examples of transformations Into each other of rest energy and kinetiC energy -- 11. Comparison of the role played by mass In the theories of Einstein and Newton -- 12. The nature of mass: Question No.1 of modem physics -- II. ARTIFACTS -- 13. At the turn of the century: Four masses -- 14. Mass and Energy in Einstein's papers in 1905 -- 15. "Generalized Poincare formula" -- 16. A thousand and two books -- 17. Imprinting and mass culture -- 18. Why It is bad to call E/c2 the mass -- 19. "Does mass really depend on velocity, dad?" -- 20. Flzlka v shkole (Physics at School).

6. The Fundamental Constants of Physics Soviet Physics Uspekhi 34 (1991) 818-826. -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LET US PLAY WITH THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT -- 3. THREE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS -- 4. THE ANTHROPIC NATURE OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE -- 5. THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLES -- 6.IN WHAT IS THERE HOPE? -- 7. MENTAL EXPERIMENTS. IS THE PLANCK SCALE NOT A MIRAGE? -- 8. CONCLUSION -- 7. The Problem of Mass: from Galilei to Higgs Physics at the Highest Energy and Luminosity: To Understand the Origin of Mass, ed. A. Zichichi (Plenum Press, New York, 1992), pp. 1-24. -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE MASS OF A PARTICLE -- 3. THE MASS IN XVI-XVII CENTLTRIES -- 4. THE MASS IN XVIII AND XIX CENTURIES -- 5. THE MASS OF A SYSTEM OF FREE PARTICLES -- 6. INTERACTIONS AND BINDING ENERGY -- 7. QUARKS AND GLUONS CONFINED IN HADRONS -- 8. THE PATTERN OF MASSES OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES -- 9. SCALARS AND THE NATURE OF MASS -- 10. CONCLUSIONS -- DISCUSSION -- 8. Vacua, Vacuum: Physics of Nothing Proc. of a NATO Advances Research Workshop on the History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics, Erice, Italy, July 27-August 4, 1994, eds. H. B. Newman and T. Ypsilantis (Plenum Press, New York, 1995), pp. 67-72. -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. POMERANCHUK ON VACUUM -- 3. LANDAU ON VACUUM -- 4. "MIRROR WORLD" -- 5. SAKHAROV AND BAU -- 6. KIRZHNITZ ON VACUUM -- 7. VACUUM DOMAIN WALLS -- 8. FALSE VACUUM -- 9. THE SUBJECTS I HAVE TO OMIT -- REFERENCES -- 9. Note on the Meaning and Terminology of Special Relativity Eur. J. Phys. 15 (1998) 403-406. -- 1. The relativity of Galileo Galilei -- 2. The relativity of Albert Einstein -- 3. Archaic notions and notations -- References -- 10. On Relativistic Apple: Exchange of Letters with M. R. Kleemans in August 1998 -- 11. Current Status of Elementary Particle Physics Physics-Uspekhi 41 (1998) 553-557.

1. Sixteen fundamental particles -- 2. Fundamental fermions -- 3. Fundamental vector bosons -- 4. Running coupling constants -- 5. Colliders -- 6. Why do we need still larger colliders? -- 12. Gravitation, Photons, Clocks Written together with K. G. Selivanov and V. L. Telegdi, Physics-Uspekhi 42 (1999) 1045-1050. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiments -- 3. Theory up to 1916: Einstein elevator -- 4. General relativity: metric -- 5. Pseudoderivation and pseudointerpretation of the gravitational red shift -- 6. Measurement of the wavelength -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 13. On the Interpretation of the Redshift in a Static Gravitational Field Written together with K. G. Selivanov and V. L. Telegdi, Am. J. Phys. 68 (2000) 115-119. -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPERIMENTS -- III. THEORY BEFORE GENERAL RELATIVITY: "ELEVATORS" -- IV. THEORY IN THE FRAMEWORK OF GENERAL RELATIVITY: METRIC -- V. PSEUDODERIVATION AND MISINTERPRETATION OF GRAVITATIONAL REDSHIFT -- VI. THE WAVELENGTH MEASUREMENT -- VII. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 14. Photons and Static Gravity Mod. Phys. Lett. A 15 (2000) 1941-1947. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Redshift and Clocks -- 3. Photon Velocity -- 4. Radar Echo -- 5. Deflection of Light -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 15. A Thought Experiment with Clocks in Static Gravity Mod. Phys. Lett. A 15 (2000) 2007-2009. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dialogue on the Thought Experiment -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 16. Relation between Energy and Mass in Bohr's Essay on His Debate with Einstein Physics of Atomic Nuclei 64 (2001) 536-539. -- 1. lNTRODUCTION -- 2. EINSTElN'S GEDANKEN EXPERIMENT -- 3. FAMOUS FORMULA E = mc2 -- 4. E OR Eo? 1905-1921 -- 5. E OR Eo? 1921-1955 -- 6. BOHR'S COUNTERARGUMENT -- 7. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS ON TERMINOLOGY -- 8. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

POSTSCRIPT -- REFERENCES -- 17. Trialogue on the Number of Fundamental Constants Written together with M. J. Duff and G. Veneziano, J. High Energy Phys. 0203 (2002) 023-053. -- Part I Fundamental constants: parameters and units -- 1. Introduction: parameters and units -- 2. Stoney's and Planck's units of L, T, M -- 3. The physical meaning of units -- 3.1 The meaning of c -- 3.2 The meaning of n -- 3.3 The status of G -- 4. The cube of theories -- 5. The art of putting c = 1, Ii = 1, G = 1 -- 6. International system of units -- 7. Remarks on Gabriele's part II -- 8. Remarks on Mike's part III -- 9. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Part II Fundamental units III physics: how many, if any? -- 1. Introductory remarks -- 2. Three questions and one answer -- 3. Fundamental units in QFT+GR -- 4. Fundamental units in old-fashioned quantum string theory (QST) -- 5. Fundamental units in modern QST 1M-theory -- 6. The disagreement with Lev -- 7. The disagreement with Mike -- 8. Time variation of fundamental units? -- Acknowledgments -- Part III A party political broadcast on behalf of the Zero Constants Party -- 1. The false propaganda of the Three Constants Party -- 2. The false propaganda of the Two Constants Party -- 3. Three fundamental theories? -- 4. An operational definition -- 5. The operationally indistinguishable world of Mr. Tompkins -- 6. What about theories with time-varying constants? -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 18. Photons, Clocks, Gravity and the Concept of Mass Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 110 (2002) 151-155. -- 1. MASS IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY -- 2. ATOMS IN STATIC GRAVITY -- 3. PHOTONS IN STATIC GRAVITY -- 4. MISLEADING TERMINOLOGY -- 5. UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF m -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES.

19. Spacetime and Vacuum as seen from Moscow Proc. of the Inaugural Conf. of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics "2001: A Spacetime Odyssey", Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 21-25 May 2001, eds. M. J. Duff and J. T. Liu (World Scientific, 2002), pp. 105-118. -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pomeranchuk on vacuum -- 3 Landau on parity, P, and combined parity, CP -- 4 Search and discovery of K2 -+ 7r+7r- -- 5 "Mirror world" -- 6 Zeldovich and cosmological term -- 7 QeD vacuum condensates -- 8 Sakharov and baryonic asymmetry of the universe, BAD -- 9 Kirzhnits and phase transitions -- 10 Vacuum domain walls -- 11 Monopoles, strings, instantons, and sphalerons -- 12 False vacuum -- 13 Inflation -- 14 Brane and bulk -- References -- 20. Critical Velocities c/ J3 and c/ V2 in General Theory of Relativity Written together with S. 1. Blinnikov and M. 1. Vysotsky, Physics-Uspekhi 46 (2003) 1099-1103. -- 1. Introduction. Proper and coordinate velocities -- 2. Derivation of v c = 1/ J3 for r > R -- 3. Variation of v outside a black hole -- 4. Variation of v inside a star -- 5. A thought experiment in a tower and the critical proper velocity -- 6. Isotropic and harmonic coordinates -- 7. Conclusion and acknowledgements -- References -- 21. Fundamental Units: Physics and Metrology Astrophysics, Clocks and Fundamental Constants, eds. S. G. Karshenboim and E. Peik, Lect. Notes Phys. 648 (Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2004), pp. 57-74. -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fundamental Parameters and Units -- 3 Planck Units -- 4 c, h, G - Units -- 5 Planck Units Are Impractical -- 6 Units of Stoney -- 7 Atomic Clocks and c -- 8 Towards a Kilogram Based on h -- 9 Kilogram as Frequency VK -- 10 Electromagnetism and Relativity -- 11 Concluding Remarks -- Acknow ledgements -- References.

22. The Virus of Relativistic Mass in the Year of Physics Gribov Memorial Volume IIQuarks, Hadrons and Strong Interactions: Proc. of the Memorial Workshop Devoted to the 75th Birthday of V. N. Gribov, Budapest, Hungary, 22-24 May 2005, eds. Yu. L. Dokshitzer, P. Levai and J. Nyiri (World Scientific, 2006), pp. 470-473.
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This is the first book in which Einstein's equation is explicitly compared with its popular though not correct counterpart E = mc2, according to which mass increases with velocity. The book will be of interest to researchers in theoretical, atomic and nuclear physics, to historians of science as well as to students and teachers interested in relativity theory.
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