[Physics] If you are on Earth, are your mass and weight the same

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I was wondering how mass and weight are different so I Googled it. I found that mass is constant no matter where you are because it is the amount of matter in an object and weight changes because it's the pull of gravity on an object.

This lead me to another question. If you are on Earth are your mass and weight the same?

Best Answer

From a unit analysis point of view mass and weight are different kinds of things: mass is a quantity of material substance and weight is a force. Things of a different kind can never be the same.

That said, historically the distinction was not always recognized and traditional systems of weight-and-measure (including the original metric system, but not SI) use the same unit for both.

In those systems of measurement, there have the same numeric value on Earth by construction.

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