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>
> Someone mentioned that customers in the grocery store may confuse the
> terminology of mass and weight.  Maybe so, but show me one instance where
> this makes any difference to the customer.  I've yet to come across an
 example,
> outside of physics classes, where not knowing the distinction has serious
> consequences.
>
> Cheers.
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> Van E. Neie                                      ven@physics.purdue.edu
> Purdue University
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Van,

Perhaps not but incorrect use of terms such as weight and mass make it
just that much more difficult to overcome misconceptions students bring to
the classroom.  It is a bit like all of us fighting for the correct use of
fewer or less - common misuse even to news folks.  I don't like to see
weight given in kg's.  Or another one, "Save a Watt."  Why not "Save a Joule?"

Lowell