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Thank you We sneak and here's your smoke du jour

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Brought to you by space Travelling hats Yeah cats already

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rule the internet so outer space seems like the logical

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next step right Right Mr filch builds a teleporter and

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sends his pet cast this's norris to the moon How

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will mrs north has inertial and gravitational mass on the

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moon compared to her inertial and gravitational mass here on

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earth and here the potential answers All right way less

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rude That okay got him All right Well let's take

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a moment and let that mass in our skulls Think

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about what exactly mass is Well people often confuse mast

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and wait Mass is a measure of how much matter

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an object has Weight is a measure of gravity's force

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acting on that mask So wait changes as gravity changes

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For example some of the ways one hundred twenty pounds

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on earth would weigh about twenty pounds on the moon

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But mass doesn't depend on gravity After all if all

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of sudden were launched into space there just a cz

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much of us up there as there was on earth

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It's just that in space we don't experience the force

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Of gravity and mass But it plainly is just mass

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It could be measured in terms of gravitational mass or

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inertial mass but those are really just different ways of

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measuring the same mass well Something that has fifty kilograms

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of inertial mass will also have fifty kilograms of gravitational

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mass option A treats mass and weight is the same

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thing and we know that's wrong being searing correct to

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since gravitational mass and inertial mass are equal Just because

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we reduced gravity doesn't mean a gravitational mass changes All

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of this has been leading to the correct answer option

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d the mass of something or some cats doesn't change

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whether it's on the moon or on earth But the

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answer is d

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