Saturday, 16 May 2015

Mass and weight

• Mass: the property of an object that is a measure of its inertia (a resistance to accelerate), the amount of matter it contains, and its influence in a gravitational field. • Weight is the force of gravity acting on an object, measured in Newtons, and given by the formula: Weight = mass × acceleration due to gravity • Weights (and hence masses) may be compared using a balance

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