Question

What is the difference between gravitational mass and inertial mass?????

Answer 1

There's a huge difference...inertial mass is found from newton's 2nd law..nd it deals when a body moves horizontally..it does not change with speed (provided its speed is very less than that of light).. whereas gravitational mass is the ratio of weight of the body acceleration due to gravity..as the acceleration due to gravity is not same everywhere on earth..so it changes..


hope that helps..

Answer 2

According to Newton's second law of motion, if a body of fixed mass m issubjected to a single force F, its acceleration a is given by F/m. Abody's mass also determines the degree to which it generates or is affected by a gravitational field. ... This is sometimes referred to as gravitational mass.