Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-l7hp2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-26T07:24:07.955Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The relativistic mass of a rotating cylinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Josephine M. Gilloch
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway CollegeEnglefield Green, Surrey
W. H. McCrea
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway CollegeEnglefield Green, Surrey

Abstract

An investigation by G. L. Clark is found to provide exceptionally instructive illustrations of the calculation of the variously defined ‘densities’ and ‘masses’ occurring in general relativity theory and of their physical significance. In particular, the effects of motion and stress upon gravitational mass are elucidated. An explicit example shows how kinetic energy is included in the gravitational mass.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

(1)Clark, G. L.Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 45 (1949), 405–10.Google Scholar
(2)Love, A. E. H.Elasticity (Cambridge, 1927, 4th ed.), pp. 146–7.Google Scholar
(3)Clark, G. L.Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 177 (1941), 227–50, 234.Google Scholar
(4)Whittaker, E. T.Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 149 (1935), 384–95.Google Scholar
(5)McCrea, W. H. (In preparation.)Google Scholar
(6)Bergmann, P. G.Introduction to the theory of relativity (New York, 1942), p. 128.Google Scholar
(7)Eddington, A. S.Mathematical theory of relativity (Cambridge, 1924, 2nd ed.), p. 121.Google Scholar