ELECTROMAGNETIC MASS MODELS IN GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY : Ph

Abstruct " Electromagnetic mass " where gravitational mass and other physical quantities originate from the electromagnetic field alone has a century long distinguished history. In the introductory chapter we have divided this history into three broad categories – classical, quantum mechanical and general relativistic. Each of the categories has been described at a length to get the detailed picture of the physical background. Recent developments on Repulsive Electromagnetic Mass Models are of special interest in this introductory part of the thesis. In this context we have also stated motivation of our work. In the subsequent chapters we have presented our results and their physical significances. It is concluded that the electromagnetic mass models which are the sources of purely electromagnetic origin " have not only heuristic flavor associated with the conjecture of Lorentz but even a physics having uncon-ventional yet novel features characterizing their own contributions independent of the rest of the physics " .