Re: mass versus weight

["John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

Tina wrote:
> >  the math book uses weight and mass nearly interchangeably.

Then Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
> *** At the level of most students in your class, I would go along with
> the textbook.

I need more context.  Is this a math class or a physics class?

Assuming ordinary unaccelerated terrestrial situations:
 -- There is a pretty close correspondence between weight
and mass.
 -- For almost every math problem involving mass there is
a corresponding math problem involving weight (or |weight|).
 -- So I don't see why the question of mass versus weight
needs to come up.

OTOH in a physics class, or if the math book starts throwing
around physics equations (e.g. F=ma) or starts asking about
weightless astronauts, that's a horse of a different color.