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Physics

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Motion and Stability- Forces and Interactions

PS.Phy.2.2

Mass and Weight

La massa di un oggetto è una misura della quantità di materia che contiene e dipende dal numero di atomi in esso contenuti.
Il suo peso è la forza gravitazionale che agisce su di esso da un oggetto più grande, come la Terra o la Luna, a seconda di quale sia il più vicino ad esso.
Poiché la quantità di materia non cambia in risposta alla forza applicata, la massa dell'oggetto rimane costante.
Tuttavia, il suo peso dipende dalla sua posizione. Un oggetto sulla Terra pesa in modo diverso da quello su Marte o sulla Luna, ma la sua massa rimane la stessa. La variazione di peso è dovuta alla differenza di accelerazione dovuta alla gravità che agisce su di essa.
La massa non può mai essere zero, ma il peso diventa zero quando la forza gravitazionale non agisce su di esso. Usando questa osservazione e la seconda legge di Newton, un oggetto di massa m pesa m volte il vettore g.
Vale a dire, maggiore è la massa di un oggetto, maggiore è il suo peso. La massa è una quantità scalare, ma il peso è un vettore diretto verso il centro della Terra.

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massa e peso

Massa e peso sono spesso usati in modo intercambiabile nelle conversazioni quotidiane. Per esempio, spesso le cartelle cliniche riportano il nostro peso in chilogrammi e mai, come sarebbe corretto, in Newton. In fisica, tuttavia, c'è una distinzione fondamentale. Il peso è l'attrazione della Terra su un oggetto. Esso dipende dalla distanza dal centro della Terra. Il peso cambia drasticamente se lasciamo la superficie della Terra, diversamente dalla massa, la quale non cambia a seconda del luogo. Per esempio, sulla Luna, l'accelerazione causata dalla gravità è di solo 1,67 m/s2 se confrontata con i 9,8 m/s2 sulla Terra. Inoltre, sulla Terra una massa di 1,0 kg ha un peso di 9,8 N, ma sulla Luna è di solo 1,7 N. Comunque, la massa di un oggetto è la stessa sulla superficie della Terra, in orbita o sulla superficie della Luna.

Quando un oggetto viene fatto cadere, esso accelera verso il centro della Terra. La seconda legge di Newton afferma che una forza netta su un oggetto è responsabile della sua accelerazione. Se la resistenza dell'aria è trascurabile, la forza netta che agisce su un oggetto mentre cade è uguale alla forza di gravità, comunemente conosciuta come il suo peso, o la forza causata dalla gravità che agisce sulla massa di un oggetto "m".

Notiamo che, anche se sono strettamente correlati, il peso e la massa sono grandezze fisiche diverse. La massa è una proprietà intrinseca di un oggetto ed è una quantità di materia. Si è tentati di equiparare la massa al peso perché la maggior parte dei nostri esempi ha luogo sulla Terra, dove il peso di un oggetto varia minimamente con la posizione dell'oggetto sulla Terra. Inoltre, è difficile contare e identificare tutti gli atomi e le molecole in un oggetto, perciò la massa è raramente determinata in questo modo.

Questo testo è stato tratto e adattato da <a href="https://openstax.org/books/university-physics-volume-1/pages/5-4-mass-and-weight">Openstax, University Physics Volume 1, Section 5.4: Mass and Weight.</a>

Massa e peso

Massa e peso sono spesso usati in modo intercambiabile nelle conversazioni quotidiane. Ad esempio, le cartelle cliniche spesso mostrano il nostro peso in chilogrammi, ma mai ...

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weight changes, mass stays constant

Mass and weight are related, but they are not the same. In physics, weight is the pull of the Earth on an object. It depends on how far the object is from the center of the Earth. Mass is the amount of matter in an object, and it does not change with location.

Everyday language can make this difference confusing. Medical records often list body weight in kilograms, even though the correct force unit is the newton. That can make mass and weight seem interchangeable. In physics, however, they describe different physical quantities.

Weight changes when gravity changes. On the Moon, the acceleration due to gravity is about 1.67 m/s², while on Earth it is 9.8 m/s². A 1.0 kg mass therefore weighs about 9.8 N on Earth but only about 1.7 N on the Moon. The mass stays the same on Earth, in orbit, and on the Moon.

When an object falls, it accelerates toward the center of the Earth. Newton’s second law says that a net force causes acceleration. If air resistance is negligible, the net force on a falling object is its gravitational force, also called its weight. This force acts on an object of mass m.

Mass is an intrinsic property of an object. It is the amount of matter it contains. People often mix up mass and weight because most examples happen on Earth, where weight does not change much from place to place. It is also hard to count all the atoms and molecules in an object, so mass is rarely found that way.

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