state three differences between mass and weight
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mass is the total amount of material in a body while as weight is the amount of material+force of gravity on an object.
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MASS
•Mass of a substance is the amount of matter contained in it
•Mass is measured by an analytic balance
•Mass is a scalar quantity,has only magnitude of its measure
•Mass is measured in Kilograms
•Mass=Force/Acceleration
WEIGHT:
•Weight is the force of attraction of an object towards the centre of Earth
•Weight is weighed using a spring balance
•Weight is a vector,has both direction and magnitude
•SI unit of weight is Newton(N)
•Weight=Mass×Acceleration due to gravity
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