Why does the mass of the body remain same everywhere while the weight of the body keeps
changing?
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When we talk about weight of the body, weight is a force on a body due to gravitational field and acceleration due to gravity and it's calculated as W=mg since, acceleration due to gravity is different everywhere in the universe so weight of the body may changes in universe at different locations but mass remains
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- Mass of a body is equal to measure of the inertia of a body whereas Weight is the product of the mass and the gravitational force.
- Mass was earlier considered to be the amount of matter in a body which was laster changed with the inertia of a body, but even if we consider the amount of matter to be mass, the amount of matter is still as constant as it doesn't change from place to place
- As we know the gravitational force keeps changing from place to place. Thus weight keeps varying
- Whereas the inertia of the body doesn't change and is a constant, so the mass is constant no matter where we go
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