@ OnlyMe - thanks for replying and with such understanding too! I think you know your stuff very well, but you still could see the complication of acceleration that can't be measured, and the feeling of acceleration when standing still. It has left me wondering how to comprehend this?
An objects gravitational mass and inertial mass are the same. The force of one is called weight (stationary) and the other "force” calculated from Mass times acceleration.
But mass times acceleration only works when the force can overcome friction on a frictionless surface, otherwise it will show that the force will be greater that M*A.
Surfaces on which objects are resting are providing more "friction" than the G force can muster. (Sometimes very slow movements are possible - e.g. landmasses sinking, or the tilting of the Leaning Tower of Pizza.)
But gravity never gives up! It is always "forcing away", where as other forces are relatively temporary. (We push for a while and then give up.)
An objects gravitational mass and inertial mass are the same. The force of one is called weight (stationary) and the other "force” calculated from Mass times acceleration.
But mass times acceleration only works when the force can overcome friction on a frictionless surface, otherwise it will show that the force will be greater that M*A.
Surfaces on which objects are resting are providing more "friction" than the G force can muster. (Sometimes very slow movements are possible - e.g. landmasses sinking, or the tilting of the Leaning Tower of Pizza.)
But gravity never gives up! It is always "forcing away", where as other forces are relatively temporary. (We push for a while and then give up.)