Now how about if you guys quit that "my father is stronger than yours" game,
take a walk to the hangar and fly a litlle bit

Good flight

J.P.
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Bryan Martin wrote:

In normal everyday usage, weight is not the force due to gravity, it's
the
amount of matter in the object you are referring to (aka mass). Check
the
label on any product at the grocery store, it lists the net weight of
the
product, not the mass. Only in engineering and scientific circles is
there
any distinction made between the two terms, and that's only because some
scientist in the distant past was too lazy to come up with a new term
for
"the force due to gravity". Long before spring scales were invented,
everything was "weighed" on a balance by comparing it to known standard
weights. A balance does not measure force. You can be certain that any
legal
document that refers to weight is not referring to any kind of force.

Yes, weight is the force due to gravity. What is wrong with listing the
net weight of the grocery product? Since scales are a common method of
determining the amount of many products, what purpose would there be to
listing the mass of the products?

Weight is the force due to gravity, so why do we need another term? And
if we had another term, why would we need weight?


Matt