a device the measures mass?

Question

its 7 letters

Answer 1

The silly people are asking you to give them BALANCE..

However you cannot measure mass with scales or balances..
You measure Weight with these tools.. The weight of a body is due to the pulll of gravity on the planet you find yourself on.. For example, you are six times heavier on the Earth than on the Moon.
But your mass doesn't change... Mass is the product of your density and your volume...
If you have One Cubic Meter of water, you have a Mass of 1,000 kilogrammes.
If you have Once Cubic Meter of Copper you have a mass of around 8600Kg
However.. what they weigh, varies from place to place

Answer 2

Cal,
You're probably wondering why some of the responses seem to disagree with each other.

The long answer someone gave about mass being different from weight is true. However, the response that "balance scales" measure mass is also true, even when you consider that mass and weight are different things.

An object's "mass" is HOW MUCH STUFF it consists of (Protons, neutrons, electrons ... THAT kind of stuff).

"Weight" is the FORCE exerted on an object by gravity (usually the earth's gravity, but it could be the gravity of any massive body).

An object's weight is proportional to its mass. For example, the earth exerts twice as much force on an object that has twice as much mass. So we can determine an object's mass by measuring the force of gravity on it.

Now, as you may know, gravity varies slightly from place to place on the earth's surface, so the force of gravity (that is, an object's weight) varies slightly. (And if we were on the moon or on another planet, the variation would be dramatic. But here's the solution to that problem:

Use a BALANCE scale, which compares the force that gravity exerts on the object to the force that gravity exerts on other objects whose mass you know. If the force of gravity on the object is exactly equal to the force of gravity on an object whose mass is 2.3 kilograms (i.e., if they "balance"), then the mass of the object is 2.3 kilograms.

All you need in order to determine mass is a balance scale and a set of weights (or should I say "a set of masses").

And, yeah, this is probably more than you need for the course you're taking. But it's nice to know "the rest of the story."
Good luck.

Answer 3

you could degree the mass of an merchandise through acceleration. in case you evaluate the acceleration to that of an merchandise whose features are conventional you receives your answer. you may also use a spring & degree how briskly something is going again to it really is starting place.

Answer 4

Balance scales.

The silly person right under me just gave you an answer that's of a higher level than your course.

Answer 5

beam balance

Answer 6

scale