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November 1961

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Published in American Journal of Physics (November 1961) Volume 29, Issue 11, pp. 786-787. Copyright © 1961 American Association of Physics Teachers. Online at http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=AJPIAS&Volume=29&Issue=11 Used by permission.

Abstract

A problem suggested by Professor Gamow deals with the relationship between the transverse mass and the gravitational mass: A steamroller of mass m moves horizontally, in the +x direction, with velocity v, in a region of space in which there is a gravitational field intensity g vertically downward. Find the weight of the moving steamroller.

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