why can we not use a kitchen balance to measure a sack full of rice?
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The scientific word for how much an object weighs on a scale is “mass”. In this book we will use the words “weight” and “mass” interchangeably, because both are used in everyday language. For example “I weigh \(\text{60}\) \(\text{kg}\)” or “the car's mass is \(\text{1}\) tonne”.
In many contexts, we use scales to measure weight or mass. Different types of scales are used to measure different sizes of objects. Some examples are given in the table below:
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