Decentralization, on the other hand, refers to the extent to which authority has been passed down to the individual school. Site-based management is an example of decentralization in which individual schools can make their own decisions related to finances and curriculum.
Mass and weight example - the moon. In the below example, we've featured an astronaut on earth and on the moon. The Moon's gravity is much less than the Earth's gravity - approximately one sixth. So, a 100 kg astronaut weighs 980N on Earth. On the Moon, the astronaut would weigh only 162.2N. However, the astronaut's mass is 100kg where-ever they are. Weight on Earth: 100kg x 9.8m/s2 = 980N. Weight on Moon: 100kg x 1.622 m/s2 = 162.2N.
Weight is measured on a scale. The Mass of an object doesn't change when an object's location changes. Weight, on the other hand does change with location.â. If you took a scale with you to the Moon, the lower gravity there would show you had lost almost 84% of your weight! A 100 kg person would only weigh 16.5 kg on the surface of the Moon. If however, instead of a scale, he took a balance and 100 kg mass to the moon, he would be able to measure his actual mass, because the scale would stay in balance regardless of how much, or how little, the gravitational pull was.