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Old 01-18-2012, 10:43 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ProDarwin View Post
You guys are confusing un-sprung weight with un-sprung mass. Most of the time the terms are interchangeable, but even if you somehow achieved negative weight, the mass is what matters.
Quite right, it was only me getting sloppy with my grammer. Mass would be the correct word since we are interested in the objects inertia, which is not subject to change. Weight on the other hand changes with acceleration.
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