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#1 2007-05-31 13:19:25
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Weight or Mass?
Made a small page on Weight or Mass?
Did I make any blunders?
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#2 2007-05-31 18:47:01
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Re: Weight or Mass?
Nope, can't see any mistakes. I'm pretty sure that page is fully correct. This will be a great help to people, as a lot of them get mixed up and confused between the two key words.
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#3 2007-05-31 20:27:40
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Re: Weight or Mass?
Agreed. Very nicely done page. One minor quibble - weight is technically measured in Newtons and not kg. But then again, putting the measurements of weight in kg makes the explanation much easier to follow. Maybe there should be a small note somewhere on the page though.
Edit: And goodness me that lift was going very fast. 
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#4 2007-06-01 00:37:11
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Re: Weight or Mass?
wheight isnt measured in newtons-force is
I love pi. 
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#5 2007-06-01 00:53:18
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Re: Weight or Mass?
Nice page, MathsIsFun!
Weight is referred as kilograms force.
The unit of weight is, therefore, Newton or kgms-² .
Since Force(Newtons) is mass x acceleration, Kg force is used for expressing weight.
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#6 2007-06-01 06:56:00
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Re: Weight or Mass?
Nice!
That's wonderfull! Keep up the good work!
I see clearly now, the universe have the black dots, Thus I am on my way of inventing this remedy...
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#7 2007-06-01 10:15:44
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Re: Weight or Mass?
Yes, I think a note about Newtons is needed.
But I will put it at the end so as not to confuse (scales that measure Newtons are rare!)
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