2a – Weight

Let us start with the most intuitive force.

If you hold a ball, and release it, the ball will fall on the ground.

Our planet excert gravity on any object, includig the plane.

Weight is the force of gravity. It is equal to the mass of the airplane times the local gravitational acceleration:

For an A320:

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