What is Weight?
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What is Weight?
by cybercodes Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:08 am
Weight is the measure of the force of gravity acting on an object.
Weight is a force and should properly be measured in newtons. Sir Isaac Newton described the force that pulls objects together as the force of gravity. The gravitational forces between two objects depends on the masses of the objects and the distance between them. This gravitational force is called weight. Because gravitational force depends on the distance between two objects, an object's weight changes depending on where it is. (the farther away from the earth, the less the weight.
Weight is a force and should properly be measured in newtons. Sir Isaac Newton described the force that pulls objects together as the force of gravity. The gravitational forces between two objects depends on the masses of the objects and the distance between them. This gravitational force is called weight. Because gravitational force depends on the distance between two objects, an object's weight changes depending on where it is. (the farther away from the earth, the less the weight.
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