Question

what is the difference between mass and weight ​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

The mass, strictly the inertial mass, relates the acceleration of a body to the applied force via Newton's law:

F=ma

So if you apply a force of 1 Newton to a mass of 1kg it will accelerate at 1m/s2. This is true whether the object is floating in space or in a gravity field e.g. at the Earth's surface.

The weight is the force a body exerts when it is in a gravitational field. The weight depends on the gravitational field. For example the weight of a 1kg mass at the Earth's surface is 9.81 Newtons, while at the surface of Mars it's about 3.5 Newtons.

This is possibly a bit too much info: if so ignore this last paragraph. Although weight specifically means the force exerted in a gravitational field, Einstein told us that sitting stationary in a gravitational field is equivalent to being accelerated in the absence of gravity. The inertial mass defined using Newton's laws is the same as the gravitational mass defined by the force a body exerts in a gravitational field. So if you take a 1kg mass at the Earth's surface, the weight of 9.81 Newtons it exerts is exactly the same as the force you'd need to accelerate the 1kg mass at 9.81m/s2.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Mass -:

• Mass is the "quantity of matter"
• The mass of a body does not change

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Weight

• Weight is "the force with which the earth pulls a body towards itself.
• Weight changes from place to place.

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