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Re: What is weight? (was Re: Internal or external?)

Leigh

*This is the same sort of misnomer as "gravimeter". A pan balance is
conventionally used on the surface of Earth. It compares the inertial
forces exerted on two masses, not the gravitational forces alone.



Then there's the spring scale.





Clarence Bennett
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan 48309
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