How Things Get Heavy: The Nature of Mass
Abstract
Here, physics can be a weighty subject, full of substance and gravitas. It is therefore perhaps entirely reasonable that a central topic of the discipline is mass. But what is mass, really? What is the origin and nature of this most essential feature of the world around us? And are there any surprises to be had as we dig deeper into that question? In this article, I hope to surprise every reader at least once.
- Authors:
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- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1439976
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-17-477-PPD
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-921X; 1632124; TRN: US1900709
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics Teacher
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 55; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-921X
- Publisher:
- American Association of Physics Teachers
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Lincoln, Don. How Things Get Heavy: The Nature of Mass. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1119/1.5003739.
Lincoln, Don. How Things Get Heavy: The Nature of Mass. United States. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5003739
Lincoln, Don. Sun .
"How Things Get Heavy: The Nature of Mass". United States. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5003739. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1439976.
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abstractNote = {Here, physics can be a weighty subject, full of substance and gravitas. It is therefore perhaps entirely reasonable that a central topic of the discipline is mass. But what is mass, really? What is the origin and nature of this most essential feature of the world around us? And are there any surprises to be had as we dig deeper into that question? In this article, I hope to surprise every reader at least once.},
doi = {10.1119/1.5003739},
journal = {Physics Teacher},
number = 7,
volume = 55,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {10}
}
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