Weight is essentially the measure of the force of attraction (due to gravity) between two objects.
Mass is the amount of matter an object has.
Mass is the mass, weight is mass with gravity acting upon it
Weight is the force of gravity acting on a body, W = mg, where W is weight, m is mass, and g is acceleration due to gravity, 9.8m/s2. The unit for weight is the Newton (N). Mass is what you measure on a laboratory scale or balance.
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weight is different in different gavities but mass is not, volume is not involved
Well mass is different from weight in one major way. Mass is how easily something can lift more than weight being how heavy an object is. For example a balloon has mass, but a person carries weight.
Weight and mass are fundamentally different things, and they are measured in different units (newton, versus kilograms). Weight is caused by mass, but it also depends on gravity. The formula is: weight = gravity x mass Mass also causes inertia.
Mass is a measure of the amount of matter in an object, while weight is the force of gravity acting on an object's mass. Mass remains constant regardless of location, while weight can change depending on the strength of gravity.
Mass and weight are different notions in a correct physics terminology.
1). Mass doesn't depend on what else is nearby, but weight does. 2). Mass doesn't change when it goes to different planets, but weight does. 3). Mass and weight are measured in different units and have different physical dimensions. 4). Weight is widely understood by nearly everybody, but mass isn't.
---------------------------------- Mass ------------------------------------ Mass can be measured in milligrams, grams, and kilograms. (many other prefixes as well). Although these are sometimes confused as measurements for weight, they are similarly relative depending on the subject of conversation. --curscascis ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The standard, or basic, metric (SI) unit for the measurement for mass is the kilogram, kg. Any form of gram can be used, such as gram, g; milligram, mg; nanogram, ng.
They are different because mass is a measurement of the amount of matter in an object, weight is the quantity of heaviness.