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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What is difference between gravitational mass and inertial mass?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Inertial ---> mass with aceleration (any class of aceleration) Gravitational (force with aceleration of the quantity produce by g)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Could be?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Can you please be more clear..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Inertial mass is the mass of an object measured by its resistance to acceleration. Consider two objects with different masses. If we apply an identical force to each, the object with a bigger mass will experience a smaller acceleration, and the object with a smaller mass will experience a bigger acceleration. We might say that the larger mass exerts a greater "resistance" to changing its state of motion in response to the force. That is the basic idea behind the inertial mass. And the gravitational mass is the normal term to describe the mass of the body in classical mechanics. It is simply the mass we normally talk about.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Also note that the inertial mass is a relative quantity, which is taken about a reference object and calculated using accelerations of their collision, not an absolute one.

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