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Definition of Gravitational mass
1. Noun. (physics) the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for other bodies.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravitational Mass
Literary usage of Gravitational mass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1921)
"(gravitational mass) ,. . .. . ., (acceleration) - ^-r.—?-. T—'- X (intensity of
the (inertial mass) gravitational field). ..."
2. A Realistic Universe: An Introd. to Metaphysics by John Elof Boodin (1916)
"gravitational mass, moreover, does not seem to apply with equal force to all
energy; there seems to be little relevancy in speaking of electricity as having ..."
3. The Origin and Its Meaning: On the Origin of the Universe and Its Mechanics by Roger Ellman (2004)
"That immediately produces the especially important result of analytically proving
that: The inertial mass and the gravitational mass are identical. ..."
4. Space and Time in Contemporary Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of by Moritz Schlick (1920)
"It is founded, as we have seen, on the identity of inertial and gravitational mass.
The circumstance of the identity of these two factors is very striking, ..."
5. Philosophy and the New Physics: An Essay on the Relativity Theory and the by Louis Auguste Paul Rougier (1921)
"... the exact equivalent of inert mass or of gravitational mass in classical
mechanics. We have here to do with a tensorial theory in which the numbers Gab, ..."
6. Transactions by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"If the electrical mass is small, and the gravitational mass is large, the ionization
will be small, ..."
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