Whats the differnece between mass and wieght?

Question

For my Physics homework

Answer 1

how big
how heavy

Answer 2

Mass is the actual amount of matter in a body
Weight ismass+other forces acting.
Let us clear it all. In earth, we experience a lot of forces like pressure of air from above, the gravitational pull of the earth etc. The reading that we get when we get on a weighing machine, we get our weight and not mass.
our weight is actually the product of our actual mass and the acceleeration due to gravity(9.8 metre per second per second on an average)

Answer 3

Mass is the amount of space an object takes up. Weight is how much it weighs (or if you want to get really technical, it's how the gravitational pull of the earth pushes down on that object).

Answer 4

The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field is known as mass and the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity is known as weight..

Answer 5

mass is constant and is the amount of matter contained in an object.
weight is not constant and relates to the force at which gravity pulls you down.
for example... someone weighing 60kg (on earth) would not weigh that on the moon because the gravity is different, but they would still contain exactly the same amount of matter.
the gravity on earth is not the same every where, it differs ever so ever so slightly so things are tiny bit different in weigth at the poles to, say, the equator...weight can change from place to place, mass is a constant...
good luck

Answer 6

In layman's terms:

mass are the properties that make up the material
weight is the measure of gravitational pull on the object.

Answer 7

Think of it this way.

Mass is the measure of whats INSIDE of the object.

Weight is the measure of gravity pushing an object down.

Answer 8

mass =m
Weight=m. g

Answer 9

w=m*g
g=9.81 m/sec^2.