Volume 17: Pages 295-300, 2004

The Golden Dynamical Equation of Motion for Particles of Nonzero Rest Mass in Gravitational Fields

S. X. K. Howusu

Department of Physics, University of Jos, P.M.B. 2084, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

In the paper “On the Gravitation of Moving Bodies” (S.X.K. Howusu, Phys. Essays 4, 81 (1991)) we published a natural generalization of Newton's dynamical law of motion for particles of nonzero rest mass. Then we showed how this resolves the phenomenon of anomalous orbital precession in the solar system in as excellent a way as Einstein's geometrical theory of gravitation, called general relativity. In this paper we show how our new law may be written in a mathematically more compact, economical, and elegant form.

Keywords: inertial mass, passive mass, anomalous orbital precession, solenoidal, gravitational spectral shift formula, golden dynamical equation of motion

Received: November 7, 2002; Published online: December 15, 2008