Newer scales like digital and spring scales, measure the force your body exerts on the pad you're standing on, which is your weight. The scale then divides your weight by gravity to give you your mass.
It displays the force of gravity with which you and the earth are pulling each other towards their respective centres.
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By far the easiest method is with the use of a scale. For example, when you stand on a bathroom scale, it displays the magnitude of both forces of gravity between you and the Earth.
If the bathroom scale reads 500N when the man stands on it, then that's a clear indication that the force of gravity between the man and the Earth is 500N. That number is referred to as the man's "weight" on Earth. It's also the Earth's weight on the man.
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The support force of your scale is the same as your weight, but in an upward direction. If that were not so, the scale would be deformed (dented in) under your weight.
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A bathroom scale performs that function very well.
By far the easiest method is with the use of a scale. For example, when you stand on a bathroom scale, it displays the magnitude of both forces of gravity between you and the Earth.
The numbers on a bathroom scale represent the pounds that you weigh. Some scales are digital and do not have a dial that turns when you step on the scale.
-- Measure the human's weight on a bathroom scale near the earth's surface. -- Divide her weight by the acceleration of gravity.
There are many bathroom scales nowadays that are claiming to be accurate. Some of these bathroom scales have gone digital. One way to check that your bathroom scale is giving you accurate results is to calibrate it so that you will know that your bathroom scale is definitely accurate. Try weighing something that you know the exact weight of. For example, weigh 10kilos of sugar or flour on the bathroom scale and check if it gives the exact result of 10kilos. If it does, then it is definitely accurate. But it if it gives you far off result, then the bathroom scale isn't worth it.
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-- Borrow a bathroom scale. -- Place scale on a hard, flat, level surface. -- Place the unknown object on the scale. -- Read scale display. -- Record in notebook. -- Return to lab with notebook. -- The quantity noted represents the magnitude of the mutual gravitational force between the earth and the object under study. -- Send scale to the Smithsonian. -- Eat the object under study. -- Add graphs, charts, formulas, and descriptions of method of procedure. -- Publish.
There are several different ways to make a bathroom scale; some of them are based on springs, and some are not.