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Motion in Straight Line
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What is mass and weight?

Answer

Mass is the amount of matter present in the body and weight is the force with which the earth pulls the mass.
Mass of a body is same at every point and is a scalar quantity.
The weight of body is different at different places and is a vector quantity. 

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