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Kinetic energy and the equivalence principle

 

作者: S. Carlip,  

 

期刊: American Journal of Physics  (AIP Available online 1998)
卷期: Volume 66, issue 5  

页码: 409-413

 

ISSN:0002-9505

 

年代: 1998

 

DOI:10.1119/1.18885

 

出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers

 

关键词: GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY;KINETIC ENERGY;PHOTONS;MASS;ACCELERATION;REST MASS;EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE;GRAVITATION;04.

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

According to the general theory of relativity, kinetic energy contributes to gravitational mass. Surprisingly, the observational evidence for this prediction does not seem to be discussed in the literature. I reanalyze existing experimental data to test the equivalence principle for the kinetic energy of atomic electrons, and show that fairly strong limits on possible violations can be obtained. I discuss the relationship of this result to the occasional claim that “light falls with twice the acceleration of ordinary matter.”

 

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