Apparent Additional Mass

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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