On Gravitational Mass and Inertial Mass

Abstract

Zhi Li and Hua Li

Gravity is an impedance of matter to its stable state changes, manifested as attraction to other objects, and gravitational mass is a measure of the magnitude of this property of matter. Microscopic particles and solid particles within a macroscopic object, along with their motion, endow the object with inertial mass. These particles and their motion, along with the relative motion of the object in a gravitational field, collectively endow the object with gravitational mass. Therefore, gravitational mass is the total mass of an object, and inertial mass is only a part of it.

The relationship between gravitational mass and inertial mass is derived from the hypothesis of the Energy-Momentum Conservation and the modified Newton's gravity formula as follows: gravitational mass=inertiaI mass+inertial mass * V/C.

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