On Jul 22, 2020, at 1:41 PM, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Who doesn't? You may not, but lots of other people do. What am I missing, > here?
As long as you stay near the earth’s surface, you can treat mass and weight as equivalent. But kilograms measure mass, not weight. If I go into orbit around the earth, my weight has gone to zero, but my mass hasn’t changed. -- Pew, Curtis G curtis....@austin.utexas.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN