Difference between revisions of "Mass"

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Mass is the concept that enables us to say that an object (or an idea) is weighty or massive.

Context

• Issac Newton needed a mathematical definition of what caused gravity and so defined it thus^[1]

  The quantity of matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjucntly ... It It is this that I mean hereafter everywhere under the name body, or mass. And the same is known by the weight of each body, for it is proportional to the weight, as i have found by experiments on pendulums, very accurately made, which shall be shown hereafter.

• There are two types of mass as commonly defined:

1. rest,
2. inertial.

References

1. ↑ Issac Newton Mathematical Principles