How much does a piece of paper weigh
How much does a piece of paper weigh?
One standard, 8.5×11 inch, 20# sheet of paper weighs approximately .16 ounce. This is useful in calculating the postage of a mailing. You could multiply the number of sheets plus the weight of the envelope to get the entire weight of the shipment.
The remarkable fact realized by Galilean is that all objects accelerate towards the Earth at the same rate. You can verify this yourself by doing the following simple experiment. Hold a sheet of paper in one hand and your physics text book in the other, and drop them simultaneously from the same height above your desk. Do they hit the desk at the same time? The answer is no, but we know that the reason has to do with air resistance, which has more effect on the light piece of paper than on the heavy text book. Now if the piece of paper is just a bit smaller than the size of your textbook you can place the paper on top of the book, and drop the two together. You should find, quite dramatically, that the book and paper hit the desk at precisely the same instant.