I stand by my original statement. The label on the box is a mass specification, not a force specification. See the reference provided.
If you want to pick at the statement you would have to resort to relativity, in which case I would correct to "rest mass." Sent from my iPad > On May 20, 2015, at 1:51 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > -------- > In message <[email protected]>, "Jonathan E. > Hardis" writes: > >> That box of Wheaties that is labelled 'Net Weight 10 oz' would >> correctly weigh 10 oz everywhere on Earth, on the Moon, and on the ISS. > > It does not. > > For several reasons, but mainly because the enclosed air changes > means that the bouyancy depends on air-pressure and thus altitude. > > That goes for anything which isn't enclosed by a rigid container > with neglible elasticity in the range of relevant air-pressures. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
