Timeline for Do we all actually just weigh half of what our bathroom scales tell us?
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| May 14, 2015 at 23:58 | comment | added | Qmechanic♦ | More on forces and factors of two: physics.stackexchange.com/q/41291/2451 and links therein. | |
| May 14, 2015 at 23:35 | comment | added | Floris | Apart from the whole misconception of the action-reaction thing, calibration of the scale (when it displaces x mm, we call that y kg because the standard kg mass causes a displacement of x/y) means that it doesn't matter. We define your weight as "what the calibrated scale says". | |
| May 14, 2015 at 22:42 | answer | added | Ernie | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 14, 2015 at 22:10 | comment | added | Rations | The equal but opposite force paired with the downwards force of your weight is the upwards force exerted by the spring on you. In other words, the reaction force does not act on the scale itself. | |
| May 14, 2015 at 22:02 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| May 14, 2015 at 21:58 | history | asked | yippy_yay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |