Gravitational and inertial effects of mass on the perceived heaviness of objects

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 27 - Trang 18-20 - 2013
Kerry L. Greer1
1Department of Psychology, University College, London, England

Tóm tắt

Previous research has drawn a distinction between mass perception and weight perception. This distinction is based on data showing that subjects’ ability to judge the heaviness of an object is less acute under conditions of zero gravity. Following a discussion about the mass of an object and the gravitational and inertial effects of that mass is a proposal that this distinction between mass and weight perception is misleading. An experiment is reported that shows that the perceived heaviness of an object is a function of the magnitude of the external forces acting on that object rather than a function of the type of force, inertial or gravitational, acting on that object.

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