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Lesson: Chapter 4 — Newton's Laws of Motion

4.3. Mass and weight 1 of 9

Question 1

What are the international units of mass and of weight, in that order?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Mass in kg; weight in N. Mass is the amount of matter contained in an object, and its unit is the kilogram.

Weight is the force pulling the object towards the earth. Being a force, its unit is the newton (N) — not the kilogram.

"My weight is 50 kilograms" is ordinary enough in everyday speech, but in physics it is incorrect. Fifty kilograms is a mass.

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