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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