Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Robert Katz Publications
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
November 1961
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.
Comments
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.