Objects and systems have properties of inertial mass and gravitational mass that are experimentally verified to be the same and that satisfy conservation principles.
Gravitational mass is the property of an object or a system that determines the strength of the gravitational interaction with other objects, systems, or gravitational fields.
a. The gravitational mass of an object determines the amount of force exerted on the object by a gravitational field.
b. Near Earth’s surface, all objects fall (in a vacuum) with the same acceleration, regardless of their inertial mass.
Design a plan for collecting data to measure gravitational mass and to measure inertial mass and to distinguish between the two experiments. [SP 4.2]
Objects and systems have properties of inertial mass and gravitational mass that are experimentally verified to be the same and that satisfy conservation principles.
This was completed when we experimented with the Atwood machine. Collecting data on how the mass of an object affected the acceleration or how the force affected the acceleration.