Kinetic energy and the equivalence principle
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Kinetic Energy and the Equivalence Principle
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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physics
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0002-9505,1943-2909
DOI: 10.1119/1.18885