Mass and Weight
Q1: What is the difference between Mass and Weight?
Answer:
Mass is the measure of Inertia unlike Weight which is measure of force acting on a body towards the heavy body. Commonly people use both the terms in the same manner but there are a lot of differences between both which is well explained in the article above.
Q2: What is the SI unit of Mass?
Answer:
Kilogram is the SI unit of Mass, and other units of mass include gram, pound, ton etc.
Q3: What is the SI unit of Weight?
Answer:
SI unit of Weight is Newton (N) which is also written as Kgm/s2. Other units of weight is dyne(CGS system).
Q4: What is Mass of an Object?
Answer:
Mass of an object is defined as the measure of all the substance that are present inside the body. Mass of any object is measured in kg. The mass of any object does not change with the change in the gravity.
Q5: What is Weight of an Object?
Answer:
Weight of an object is defined as the gravitational force exerted by a body on the surface of the planet. The weight of any object on Earth is the force exerted by an object on the surface of the Earth. It is measured in Newtons.
Mass and Weight
Mass and Weight are commonly used in the same manner by the general masses but there are differences between both Mass and Weight, where Mass is the measure of Inertia unlike Weight which is a measure of force acting on a body towards the heavy body. But yet still many people use these two terms interchangeably.
As we know that to change the speed or direction of an object, a force is required. If you drop anything from a great height, it will fall towards the earth’s surface. The planet revolves around the Sun and the moon revolves around the earth. There must be some force operating on objects, planets, and other celestial bodies. Isaac Newton noted that the same force is responsible for all these. This force is called gravitational force.