Textbook presentations of weight: Conceptual difficulties and language ambiguities
The term “weight” has multiple related meanings in both scientific and everyday usage. Even among experts and in textbooks, weight is ambiguously defined as either the gravitational force on an object or operationally as the magnitude of the force an object exerts on a measuring scale. This poses bo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.11.010117 |