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stiks02 [169]
3 years ago
10

Explain the difference between mass and weight and how they are measured.

Physics
1 answer:
tamaranim1 [39]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

Mass is a measure of how much force it will take to change that path. Mass depends on how much matter – atoms and so on – there is in an object; more mass means more inertia, as there is more to get moving. ... Weight, on the other hand, is a measure of the amount of downwards force that gravity exerts on an object

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