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  • Understanding Weight Measurement with Spring Scales
    With a spring scale, what you would weigh is the force exerted on the scale due to the pull of gravity on your mass. Since the scale measures the force acting on it, it would show a value equal to the gravitational force between you and the Earth, which depends on your mass and the local gravitational acceleration.

    Therefore, what you would weigh with a spring scale is not your mass but the weight or gravitational force acting on you.

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