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Mass And Science - Paper

Mass And Science

Mass is the amount of matter in an object. When you record mass the unit you use is grams. A medium sized leaf is about 1 gram, a potato chip 2 grams. A larger unit of mass is a kilogram. A kilogram is about the mass of a medium sized textbook. You need a balance to find mass. There are many kinds of balances.
The gram is the unit used to measure mass. Mass is a measure of the amount of matter in an object. Mass is different from weight. Weight is the measure of gravitational pull. Your weight on the moon is less because there is not a strong gravitational pull. Mass, on the other hand, is the same anywhere in the universe. Mass is measured with a balance. One balance is a double pan ...

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earth where the acceleration of gravity is relatively constant, it has been natural for us to confuse the concepts of mass and weight. To study the difference, we need to separate these two "parameters." We could either leave the earth's gravitational field so that we would have no weight, or create an experimental situation where weight is not a factor. An easy way to do this is to use floating objects. Floating objects still have all their mass, and move almost friction-free in still water, but we don't notice their weight since the water supports (opposes) it. A small block of wood floating in water can be pushed back and forth very easily by hand. Pushing a large motorboat requires either a much greater push or a longer time to have the same effect. The effort required changing the motion of an object is a measure of its mass. The motorboat has a lot more mass than the block of wood.

The metric unit of mass is the gram, which is the mass of a cube of water, one-hundredth of ...

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Added: 3/18/2004 08:43:58 PM
Category: Science & Nature
Type: Free Paper
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