What is the effect of mass on acceleration?
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Force = mass x acceleration\n\nacceleration = force/mass.\n\nWith a given force, as mass increases, acceleration decreases.
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You may be confusing acceleration with velocity. An object in motion will remain in that motion unless a non-zero net force is applied to it. If you are in the void of space, and are traveling along at a particular velocity, you will remain at that velocity. On Earth, drag and other forms of friction will slow you down.\n\nAcceleration is different. For something to continue to accelerate, a constant non-zero net force must be applied to it.\n\nacceleration = force/mass so if I have a mass of 50kg and want to accelerate at 100m/s^2 (100 meters per second per second) then I need a constant force of 5000 newtons applied to me. Keep in mind that that is 5000 newtons relative to ME.\n\nNow, according to our current understanding of light, it would take an infinite amount of energy to reach speed of light because force = mass/acceleration and as you accelerate, your mass increases! Neither you nor I will notice this effect in our daily life but it becomes more noticable as you approach the speed of light. This does not create mass in the sense that new mass is appearing in the universe, it just adds more weight (no pun intended) to the mass that's already there. This is actully called the reletivistic mass. Your mass when you're at rest, is your rest mass.\n\nThough we won't be traveling close to the speed of light any time soon, there have been plans to get humans to high speeds without killing them. One such way is to accelerate in intervals. For example, you feel a strong force when taking off in an airplane but once the airplane reaches a few hundred miles per hour, and you've caught up, you can do it again.
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In your lab you are dealing with the relationship of:\nf=m*a\nso a=f/m\n\nIf you plot the values of acceleration versus mass holding force constant, this is a non-linear graph, so it will depend on the range of your data.  As m gets large, the slope will approach zero.  As m gets small the slope will approach infinity, which makes sense.  The instantaneous slope of this line is -f/m^2.  So your error will depend on the relative magnitude of the mass with respect to the net force.\nIf you plot the values of acceleration versus net force while holding the mass constant, the slope of this line is 1/m.  Your error will depend on the accuracy of the system.  If the coefficient of kinetic friction is not a constant, or the force applied is not a constant, then error will be introduced into the system.\n\nj
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The height of the plane does not affect the acceleration, only the angle.\n\nAcceleration will be constant as long as the force acting on it is constant. The force contributing to acceleration (gravity) is constant.
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Mass does two things:\ni) it provides resistance to accelerations\nii) it couples to gravitational fields\n - note that according to the equivalence principle of general relativity these two things could actually be the same thing.\n\nTo measure mass you measure one of those two effects.  For example you strongly accelerate a small particle (eg by strong magnetic field) and measure the velocity it reaches in a given time.  This measures its resistance to acceleration, hence its mass.  Or you measure how it moves in a known gravitational field and infer its mass from that.\n\n\nHope this helps!\nThe Chicken
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Weight is define by your mass times the acceleration due to gravity where you are.  So you mass is the same anywhere in the universe but your weight will be effected by where you are.  Now what is weight measured in?  This is dependent on the units you use for mass and acceleration.  Using kilograms for mass and m/s^2 for acceleration you will get newtons.  Use slugs and ft/s^2 you get a pound-force.  Using a standard equivalence between pounds and kilograms you get kilogram-force.  Many people think kilograms is a measure of weight when it really is not, its kilograms-force.  There should be somewhere on most scales that will show a lbf or kgf instead of just lb or kg.  Newtons is the standard SI unit of measure though.\n\nEdit: when i say acceleration, i mean acceleration due to gravity.  Weight *is* a unit of force.\n\nhoarp001:  Weight is a unit of force, all the units you put there are units of mass, not weight.\n\nzeno : "From other experiments, we know that g, or acceleration by free fall is actually an acceleration of 9.8N at sea level"  G is acceleration due to gravity.  According to your "9.8N" your mass would be a kg*N, not newtons.  Pay attention to your units, especially since he was asking a unit question.  Standard SI would be 9.8 meters / second^2, CGS would be 980 centimeters / second^2.  If using standard engineering units, it would be 32 feet / second^2.  Bascially anything that is a length per time ^2.
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Weight is the amount of force on an object and mass is the amount of matter in that object
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Weight = Acceleration*Mass\n\nAcceleration of the free fall is the earth gravity that is 9.797 645 m/s²\n\nWeight = 9.797645*Mass\n\nfree-falling object is an object which is falling under the sole influence of gravity; such an object has an acceleration on Earth of 9.8 m/s/s, downward. This numerical value for the acceleration of a free-falling object is such an important value that it has been given a special name. It is known as the acceleration of gravity – the acceleration for any object moving under the sole influence of gravity. As a matter of fact, this quantity known as the acceleration of gravity is such an important quantity that physicists have a special symbol to denote it – the symbol g. The numerical value for the acceleration of gravity is most accurately known as 9.8 m/s/s. \n\nThere are slight variations in this numerical value (to the second decimal place) which are dependent primarily upon altitude. The Physics Classroom will use the approximated value of 10 m/s/s in order to reduce the complexity of the many mathematical tasks performed with this number. By so doing, you will be able to better focus on the conceptual nature of physics without sacrificing too much in the way of numerical accuracy. When the moment arises that you need to be accurate (such as in lab work), use the more accurate value of 9.8 m/s/s. \n\ng = 10 m/s/s, downward\n\nthe acceleration is the rate at which an object changes its velocity. Between any two points in an object's path, acceleration is the ratio of velocity change to the time taken to make that change. To accelerate at 10 m/s/s means to change your velocity by 10 m/s each second.\na = dv/t = 10/1 = 10\nthen if a body falls in the first second his speed is 10m/s and in the 2nd second is 20m/s and so on
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Mass. I think.Depending on how strong the gravity is your mass changes.
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The effect of a force, relative to the gravitational pull of the Earth. For example, if you are pulling 2 G's, you are experiencing a force equal to 2x the gravitational pull of the Earth.
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will decrease as the mass remains the same and the volume increases
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we have F= G*M*m/r^2  and F=weight\n\nwhen M=M and r= r/2 then F=G*M*m/ (r/2)^2\n\ntherefore F(new)= 4*F and hence new weight is 4 times.\n\nthis is due to change in the value of g(acceleration due to gravity)\n\nsince F=mg= G*M*m/r^2   and hence only g is effected\n\nand hence weight also changes mass remainig same.
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Yes, anything with mass generates gravity.  Gravity will only effect things which have mass, so the fact that you are stuck down means you have mass, and thus gravity.
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this is the amount of force.  Force equals mass times acceleration.  The mass is ur bodyweight in kilos and the acceleration is gravity 9.8m/s/s
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Newton = N or kg/m/s^2\n\nThe numerical information demonstrates some important qualitative relationships between force, mass, and acceleration.Doubling of the net force results in a doubling of the acceleration (if mass is held constant)."halving" of the net force results in a "halving" of the acceleration (if mass is held constant). Acceleration is directly proportional to net force.doubling of the mass results in a "halving" of the acceleration (if force is held constant).halving" of the mass results in a doubling of the acceleration (if force is held constant). Acceleration is inversely proportional to mass.The analysis of the table data illustrates that an equation such as Fnet = m*a can be a guide to thinking about how a variation in one quantity might effect another quantity. Whatever alteration is made of the net force, the same change will occur with the acceleration. Double, triple or quadruple the net force, and the acceleration will do the same. On the other hand, whatever alteration is made of the mass, the opposite or inverse change will occur with the acceleration. Double, triple or quadruple the mass, and the acceleration will be one-half, one-third or one-fourth its original value.
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Weight is defined as the force of attration b/w the earth and the object.\nAs we know that the force is defined as:\nF=m*a    (Force = mass * acceleration)\n\nIn our case, this force is the wieght of the body and the acceleration is the acceleration due to gracity i.e g. So the formula becomes:\n\nw = m*g
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Force is some thing that alters the state of things. According to Newton's second law of motion force produce acceleration in a mass object - either by putting it to motion from a state of rest or from a slower speed, or by slowing things down. In either way F= ma or F = -ma (slowing down).Where F is force, 'm' is unit mass, and 'a' stands for acceleration, and '-a' for deceleration.\nBasically it is about change - change in inertia.\n\nWhereas momentum M= mv is not about change in inertia but about inertia itself. You see every thing in universe if composed of mass and energy. Energy  of a stationary object of of 1 kg is not same as that of an object of same mass moving with certain speed.\nSo momentum is a product of mass and velocity of the object.\nAnd force in lay man's term is a means of transferring energy from on object to an other.