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  • Thumbnail for Mass versus weight
    the mass of an object is often referred to as its weight, though these are in fact different concepts and quantities. Nevertheless, one object will always...
    24 KB (3,443 words) - 14:58, 13 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orders of magnitude (mass)
    universe. Typically, an object having greater mass will also have greater weight (see mass versus weight), especially if the objects are subject to the same...
    79 KB (4,550 words) - 01:47, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Speed of light
    infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light. The speed of light is the upper limit for the speeds of objects with positive...
    144 KB (15,300 words) - 17:52, 8 June 2024
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    Mass (redirect from Metric unit of weight)
    effects of gravity on objects, resulting from planetary surfaces. In such cases, the generalized equation for weight W of an object is related to its mass...
    76 KB (10,141 words) - 17:56, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Light-emitting diode
    Because of metamerism, it is possible to have quite different spectra that appear white. The appearance of objects illuminated by that light may vary...
    164 KB (18,069 words) - 15:35, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Size
    smaller than other objects of the same kind. More formally, an object's magnitude is an ordering (or ranking) of the class of objects to which it belongs...
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    Buoyancy (redirect from Center of buoyancy)
    submerged objects with equal masses, objects with greater volume have greater buoyancy. This is also known as upthrust. Suppose a rock's weight is measured...
    28 KB (4,271 words) - 21:19, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gravity
    and it determines the motion of planets, stars, galaxies, and even light. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects, and the Moon's gravity is...
    69 KB (7,396 words) - 12:58, 12 June 2024
  • among completely submerged objects with equal masses, objects with greater volume have greater buoyancy. Suppose a rock's weight is measured as 10 newtons...
    23 KB (3,620 words) - 07:27, 30 October 2023
  • does any information travel faster than light. The rate at which two objects in motion in a single frame of reference get closer together is called the...
    68 KB (8,069 words) - 05:40, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herbig–Haro object
    wavelengths. Such objects, when observed in near infrared, are called molecular hydrogen emission-line objects (MHOs). The first HH object was observed in...
    37 KB (4,063 words) - 11:44, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diving weighting system
    weight belts or weights to counteract the buoyancy of other diving equipment, such as diving suits and aluminium diving cylinders, and buoyancy of the...
    61 KB (7,878 words) - 09:11, 15 May 2024
  • trailers with small heavy objects in them with light weight large objects to increase load factor. Generally cube and weight are reference data from the...
    14 KB (1,685 words) - 17:36, 16 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dispersity
    is a measure of the heterogeneity of sizes of molecules or particles in a mixture. A collection of objects is called uniform if the objects have the same...
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  • Thumbnail for List of mythological objects
    Mythological objects encompass a variety of items (e.g. weapons, armor, clothing) found in mythology, legend, folklore, tall tale, fable, religion, spirituality...
    188 KB (25,697 words) - 06:11, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mass–energy equivalence
    all objects having mass, or massive objects, have a corresponding intrinsic energy, even when they are stationary. In the rest frame of an object, where...
    93 KB (12,030 words) - 07:03, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Weightlessness
    Weightlessness is the complete or near-complete absence of the sensation of weight, i.e., zero apparent weight. It is also termed zero g-force, or zero-g (named...
    68 KB (7,342 words) - 19:24, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System
    upper stages and de-spin weights are leaving the Solar System, assuming they continue on their trajectories. These objects are leaving the Solar System...
    24 KB (2,264 words) - 12:56, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dobsonian telescope
    astronomers call deep sky objects). These dim objects require a large objective mirror able to gather a large amount of light. Because "deep sky" observing...
    33 KB (3,867 words) - 18:23, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of gravitational theory
    that objects immersed in a medium tend to fall at speeds proportional to their weight. Vitruvius (fl. 1st century BCE) understood that objects fall based...
    88 KB (10,501 words) - 15:35, 31 May 2024
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