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Relativistic Mass
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Conceptual History and Context
The notion of "relativistic mass" gained prominence in the early 20th century as physicists reconciled classical Newtonian mechanics with the new postulates of Special Relativity/), particularly the constancy of the speed of light in all inertial frames. Early presentations of relativity often utilized this concept to maintain the Newtonian form of [momentum](/entries/momen…