The terms "mass" and "weight" are often interchangable in our everyday, but to scientists they mean different things.
Mass of a body is a measure of how much matter it contains
Weight is a measure of the pull of GRAVITY between you and the body you are standing on.
Check out this site:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/
1 comment:
I think thats so cool! How much you would have weighed on a different planet.
Sunny 58
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