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A number of you have in the past expounded in great detail upon anhttp://physics.usna.edu/physics/Faculty/mungan/Scholarship/ScaleWeight.pd
alternative definition of weight as the reaction to the normal force
a spring scale would exert on an object.
Slowly my resistance to this idea has been ground down to the point
that I'd like to try it with my first-semester physics majors this
year.
So, I have written up a summary of my understanding of how this idea
works and how to present it in the typical intro physics course:
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I would be greatly pleased if some of you would read this over and
correct/simplify/add to it. -CEM
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Carl E. Mungan, Asst. Prof. of Physics 410-293-6680 (O) -3729 (F)
U.S. Naval Academy, Stop 9C, Annapolis, MD 21402-5026
mungan@usna.edu http://physics.usna.edu/physics/faculty/mungan/