myinkheart:

Physics question for all you nerds out there: weight = mass*acceleration due to gravity, yeah? If something is on a different planet to Earth with different gravity, its weight changes because acceleration is different, but its mass remains the same? Is that correct? (It might seem really simple but I have been taking Physics for a grand total of about three weeks so idk :/)

Yeah, that sounds right. The mass is the amount of matter, so it doesn’t change. But the force of gravity does, which makes it the object accelerate more to the center of gravity, changing the weight. It’s not the matter, it’s how much it’s being pulled.