Conference Paper
Relativistic generalization of the inertial and gravitational masses equivalence principle
Fecha
2008Autor
Mitskievich, N.V.
Institución
Resumen
The Newtonian approximation in the gravitational field description not necessarily involves admission of non-relativistic properties of the source terms in Einstein's equations: it is sufficient to merely consider the weak-field condition for gravitational field. When, e.g., a source has electromagnetic nature, one simply cannot ignore its intrinsically rel-ativistic properties, since there cannot be invented any non-relativistic approximation which would adequately describe electromagnetic stress-energy tensor even at large distances where the fields become naturally weak. But the test particle on which gravitational field is acting, should be treated as non-relativistic (this premise is required for introduction of the Newtonian potential ?N from the geodesic equation). � 2008 World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.