The November editorial worried Newton’s second law and proposed methods of defining mass and of setting up a force scale. Experiment (not definition) shows that forces can be represented by vectors. Experiments also show that inertial mass and gravitational mass are equal, and in Einstein’s view, identical.
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1998
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