Re: matter 7 & 8 grade students

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From: Dan Nealen
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:44

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I have been following this discussion about weight and mass with great
enjoyment.  Sorry if someone out there takes this debate seriously, but what
exactly are we trying to say?  As far as I know, 99.9999% of us live on the
planet earth where the acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s^2.  When we want to
"mass" something, are we not taking the weight of it and assuming that the
acceleration due to gravity is constant?  In a high school Physics class, I
don't know of any other way to find mass of an object readily and easily than
to weigh it.

Dan Nealen
CBTD@grove.iup.edu

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