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Physics · 术语表

什么是 Weight?

又称: vertical

Definition 24.1 Primary & Middle School Physics · 第 24 章 — Weight and Mass

The weight of a thing is the force with which the Earth pulls it downward. Weight is what your arm fights when you hold a bucket, and what stretches the spring when the bucket hangs from it. Like every force, weight has a direction: straight down, always.

示例

Example 24.3 (Cousins, not twins)

Mass answers: how much stuff? It is a property of the thing alone — the same in your hand, underwater, or on the Moon. Weight answers: how hard is it pulled down here? It depends on the thing and on where it is. Change nothing but the place, and the mass stays; the weight can change.

Example 24.6 (The Moon is a weaker puller)

The Moon is much smaller than the Earth, and it pulls things far more weakly — about six times more weakly. An astronaut’s pack keeps every gram of its mass on the trip, but its weight up there shrinks to a sixth. That is the whole secret of the bouncing: legs trained to fight Earth-pull suddenly fight a gentle Moon-pull, and every step becomes a leap.

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Definition 4.9 High School Physics · 第 4 章 — Universal Gravitation and Weight

The weight P→\vect P of an object at the surface of a star (a planet, a moon, …) is the gravitational force the star exerts on it. It points toward the star’s center — the direction we call vertical — and is measured in newtons.

示例

Example 4.6 (Two friends)

Two 70 kg70\,\mathrm{kg} friends stand with their centers 1.0 m1.0\,\mathrm{m} apart:

F=6.67×10−11×70×701.02≈3.3×10−7 N.F = 6.67 \times 10^{-11} \times \frac{70 \times 70}{1.0^2} \approx 3.3 \times 10^{-7}\,\mathrm{N}.

Each friend’s weight is about 6.9×102 N6.9 \times 10^{2}\,\mathrm{N} — two billion times larger. Their mutual attraction is real, but hopeless to feel.

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