How does one go about measuring the mass of an object? Mass is defined as the amount of matter an object contains. This is very different from weight, of course, as the mass of our object would remain ...
Buoyancy corrections can become important when the density of the object being weighed is very different from the density of the masses employed for the calibration function. For example, this is true ...
A high-tech version of a balance scale has just brought scientists a critical step closer toward a new and improved definition of the kilogram. The scale, called the NIST-4 watt balance, has conducted ...
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