How is mass different from weight?

Question

Somebody said they are different because of gravity.

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Answer 1

You may have heard of the term inertial mass, this is a useful term to understand what mass is. Mass is the resistance a “body” has to being accelerated. A “heavy” object requires more **energy** to be accelerated to a certain velocity than a “lighter” object

Weight is the gravitational force an object exerts on another object. Every particle exerts gravitational pull but to create significant gravitational pull, an object has to have the mass/energy equivalent of a very large asteroid. When such an object exists, the gravitational pull it exerts on other objects is what we would call “weight”, it is the **force** that the large object’s gravitational pull exerts on the smaller object

In literally 5 year old terms. Mass tells you how tired you’d get from pushing something. Weight tells you how strong you have to be to lift something