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How are mass and weight different?

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Mass:

~Mass is the measure of inertia. The mass is essentially "how much stuff" is in an object.

Weight:

~Weight is the measure of force. The weight is a body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing.

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Mass is the quantity representing the amount of matter in an object .

  • It is a scaler quantity

  • It remains constant all over the universe.

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Weight is the force by which Earth attracts any object towards its center .

  • It is a vector quantity

  • It varies as we travel from one place to another

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