Weight is the force on the object due to gravity. DO NOT USE weight as a colloquial substitute for mass.
Weight is the force on the object due to gravity. Its SI-unit is Newton.
DO NOT USE the weight tag as a colloquial substitute for the mass tag.
Questions tagged [weight]
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Can I do something for being heavier to be lifted?
Playing with a friend, one started to try to lift the other, and then the other way back.
We started to talk about "making some force" to be more difficult to lift - one could think about having more weight, but I don't think that's possible at all…
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Weight of a mass falling into an open container which is closed after the mass goes inside it
Consider a container with lid of total mass, $M$. A mass, $m$, is allowed to fall into the container when the container is open. The whole set up is kept on a sensitive weighing machine and everything is in vacuum.
When the mass, $m$, is inside the…
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Is the tension force (instead of normal force) the apparent weight here?
According to this link,
An object's weight, henceforth called "actual weight", is the downward
force exerted upon it by the earth's gravity. By contrast, an object's
apparent weight is the upward force (the normal force, or reaction
force),…
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Apparent weight can be negative?
Apparent weight can be negative ?? If yes then what conditions are required for this ? If we change the frame of reference is there any change occur in apparent weight due to these changes ?
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Does the order of the weight plates on the bar - matter?
Normally when people going to the gym and want to make "bench press" exercise using a bar with weight plates, the order of the plates (on both sides of the bar) is from the heaviest (internal) to the lighter (external). For example:
normal order:…
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Closed cage with an helium balloon?
Does a closed cage with an helium balloon weigh the same as an empty closed cage?
What if the balloon isn't touching the ceiling ? (It's a tall cage and we're weighing it in the process of the balloon elevating)
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Measuring weight with weighing scale doing dumbbells
I am on a weighing scale that measures 'weight' (not mass). And I'm performing bicep curls with two 5Kg dumbbells in each hand. The body is kept straight during the same.
I was asked to plot the reading of the weighing machine as a function of…
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What theories solve the problem of weight dispersion to minimize damage?
I don't have a physics background; I assume there's some simple link to give me to answer this, but I don't know the terminology for it and so haven't been able to solve this.
The use case it to avoid having my TV put divots into my IKEA…
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How does adding air make something more light?
Say a completely deflated balloon weighs 5 grams. When you add air, the balloon becomes lighter. But the air just adds more weight and does not decrease any weight. Let's say the air weighed 0.5 grams (random numbers). The inflated balloon will then…
Ishaan Manish
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