The Weight of Mass
| Autor: | H. L. Armstrong |
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| Rok vydání: | 1965 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journal of Physics. 33:832-835 |
| ISSN: | 1943-2909 0002-9505 |
| DOI: | 10.1119/1.1970995 |
| Popis: | It is argued that insistence on the use of the word “mass,” where one would ordinarily say “weight” is nothing but pedantry, and imposes a needless “weight,” i.e., burden, on students. Evidence is invoked from laws that the word “weight” expresses the notion of the measure of an object, which is supposed to be the peculiar meaning of “mass,” and has done so for a long time. Finally, an example shows how dropping this distinction (which, it is maintained, is nothing but a distinction without a difference) helps to clear up certain objections which have been proposed about the development of Newton's laws. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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