CSERD: Mass and Weight Lesson

Title:

Mass and Weight Lesson

Url:

http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/Resources/Activities/MassWeight/index.php

Creator:

David Joiner, The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.

Contributor:

Brendan Cannell

Publisher:

The Computational Science Education Reference Desk

Description:

This exercise is designed to look at the difference between mass and weight, and to move students from a misconception of objects in space being weightless to objects in space being in free fall, and experiencing microgravity.

Format:

HTML

Language:

English

Subject:

Astronomy, Physics, Space

Keywords:

none listed

Audience:

none listed

Education Level:

Educator, Grades 10-12, Grades 4-6, Grades 7-9, Student, Undergraduate

Resource Type:

Text