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Apparent Additional Mass
A fictitious
mass of fluid added to the mass of the
body to represent the force required to accelerate the body through
the fluid.
The apparent additional mass has inertia and
momentum equal to the apparent increase of the inertia
and momentum of the body.
References
This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
