Equivalence of energy and inertial mass


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ABSTRACT ON December 28, during the meeting at Pittsburgh of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Prof. A. Einstein delivered the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture of the


American Mathematical Society. The accompanying summary was provided by Prof. Einstein for the use of Science Service: “It is well known that the equivalence between energy and inertial mass


is one of the most important consequences of the special theory of relativity; this principle forms at present a useful tool of research in the physics of atomic nuclei. The theoretical


derivation of this principle of equivalence, while restricting myself to what is conceptually necessary, is the subject of my lecture. From the Lorentz transformation and the assumption of


the impulse and energy principle for material particles, the form of the impulse and energy of the moving particles, as well as the equality of mass and rest-energy, is derived. The whole


proof is based on the consideration of an elastic and an inelastic collision between two identically constituted material particles.” Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is


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THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Equivalence of Energy and Inertial Mass. _Nature_ 135, 111 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135111b0 Download citation * Issue Date: 19 January 1935 * DOI:


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