Weight and gravity-the need for consistent definitions
Abstract
Everyone who teaches introductory physics is used to dealing with the confusion students experience when first confronted with the difference between mass and weight.
- Publication:
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The Physics Teacher
- Pub Date:
- January 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.880152
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhTea..37...51M
- Keywords:
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- 91.10.-v;
- 06.30.Dr;
- Geodesy and gravity;
- Mass and density