Re: Weight and Mass

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

There is such an elevator (or was).  The (an) elevator in the building housing
Physics at UCSB.

bc   who "earned" two degrees from UCSB.

P.s. The first has something to do with Eötvös.  A Hungarian.

Gene Mosca wrote:

> I like to ask students to consider an elevator carrying a platform balance
> with an object on one platform, balanced by some calibrated "masses" on the
> other.  On the same elevator is an identical object being suspended
> (supported) by a spring scale.  Now ask questions about the effect of
> varying the acceleration on the balance reading and on the spring-scale
> reading.
>
> It is of interest that the balance reading is independent of the
> acceleration (unless the acceleration is the free-fall acceleration).  It is
> ironic that there is a sign on many balances reading "No springs, honest
> weight."
>
> --
> Eugene P. Mosca
> Physics Department
> MI350-B
> United States Naval Academy
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