Is there a difference between mass and weight?

[needalife]

why the hell some people use kilograms to measure weight then? When kilograms are a ref for mass?

 

[Fritzo]

There's a big difference:

Mass is what they have in chruch.

Weight is what you do if the bus hasn't arrived yet.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: michaelsslave
this HAS to be a troll, unless he is like 10 years old

i don't think they really teach newtons laws until high school, so he might be 14
ninth grade

generally physics isnt tought till senior year, so hell he could be 18

The 17th century wants its scientific discoveries back...

i dont understand this comment

Just a general comment on how someone in the 21st century could be ignorant of half millenium old scientific discoveries. Not directed at you.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: michaelsslave
this HAS to be a troll, unless he is like 10 years old

i don't think they really teach newtons laws until high school, so he might be 14
ninth grade

generally physics isnt tought till senior year, so hell he could be 18

The 17th century wants its scientific discoveries back...

i dont understand this comment

Just a general comment on how someone in the 21st century could be ignorant of half millenium old scientific discoveries. Not directed at you.

to be honest i dont remember when i learned about mass and weight, it might not have been till i took physics in HS, which was only 7 years ago

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: jagec
This is as ridiculous an assertion as those who claim that the plane won't take off.

again. ban!

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: jagec
This is as ridiculous an assertion as those who claim that the plane won't take off.

again. ban!

Whoa, is the plane thing a banable offense?

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: needalife
why the hell some people use kilograms to measure weight then? When kilograms are a ref for mass?

While "Newtons" would be the correct term for it, you can calibrate a scale to read in kilograms with the assumption that earth's gravity is constant.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: michaelsslave
this HAS to be a troll, unless he is like 10 years old

i don't think they really teach newtons laws until high school, so he might be 14
ninth grade

generally physics isnt tought till senior year, so hell he could be 18

The 17th century wants its scientific discoveries back...

i dont understand this comment

Just a general comment on how someone in the 21st century could be ignorant of half millenium old scientific discoveries. Not directed at you.

to be honest i dont remember when i learned about mass and weight, it might not have been till i took physics in HS, which was only 7 years ago

Physics for me was 2nd year of High School... so... 15yrs old for me.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: needalife
why the hell some people use kilograms to measure weight then? When kilograms are a ref for mass?

While "Newtons" would be the correct term for it, you can calibrate a scale to read in kilograms with the assumption that earth's gravity is constant.

:laugh: