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Relativistic Motion of a Radiating Mass

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IN 1926, Prof. E. W. Brown1 raised the question whether the usual equation, is rigorously true for a radiating star and, in a letter to NATURE, Sir Joseph Larmor has advanced, from considerations of momentum, that (1) is true.

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  1. Larmor, Sir Joseph, "Coll. Papers", 2, 672 (1929), or NATURE, 117, 300 (Feb. 27, 1926). See also "Astronomy and Cosmogony" by Sir James Jeans, 298 (1929).

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  2. Narlikar, V. V., NATURE, 141, 906 (May 21, 1938).

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  3. Eddington, Sir A. S., "The Mathematical Theory of Relativity", 127 (1924). The interpretation of (5) is not, however, mentioned in Eddington's book.

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NARLIKAR, V. Relativistic Motion of a Radiating Mass. Nature 142, 717–718 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142717b0

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