# effective mass

> the mass that an object seems to have when responding to forces, or when interacting with other identical particles in a thermal distribution

**Wikidata**: [Q1064434](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1064434)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_mass_(solid-state_physics))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/effective-mass


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. ISO 80000-12:2019 Quantities and units — Part 12: Condensed matter physics