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.
Earth, Pluto, Charon, and Earth's Moon compared. Pluto's diameter less than 20 percent that of the Earth's (smaller than the Earth's Moon) It has less than one percent the mass. If you weigh 180 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 11 pounds on Pluto. Pluto is 30 to 48 times further from the Sun than the Earth (Pluto's orbit is highly elliptical)