Re: Apparent weight

["Margaret Mazzolini" <mmazzolini@swin.edu.au>]

> Date:          Sat, 14 Feb 1998 14:19:55 EST
> Reply-to:      phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu
> From:          Raacc@aol.com
> To:            phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu
> Subject:       Re: Apparent weight

> In a message dated 98-02-14 13:35:36 EST, you write:
>
> << Once our students get this separation of weight from the mg force, then
>  they are far more successful with solving dynamics and statics problems. >>
>
> This is surprising since most texts I've used define weight as mg.  I've just
> looked through these texts that all define W = mg.

> What texts define it differently and therefore make statics and dynamics
> problem solving easier?
>
> Bob Carlson

We have: in a secondary school syllabus for our state (and in an 
associated textbook) we used the term "apparent weight" when 
discussing a unit on gravity, as others have used it in this 
discussion.  It seems to work well.
Cheers
Margaret Mazzolini


Dr. Margaret Mazzolini
Astrophysics & Supercomputing Group
School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering
Swinburne University of Technology
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