Newton's Second Law and the Concept of Relativistic Mass

2018/03/04 by Pletyukhov, V. A.
#Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.07909

Abstract

In this work we discuss different interpretations of mass in the relativistic dynamics. A new way to introduce mass is proposed. Our way is based on the relativistic equation of motion expressed in the form of the Newton's second law. In this approach mass appears as a tensor, not as a scalar. The tensor mass allows us simply to describe anisotropic character of inert features of a relativistic object.

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