What Has Mass And Takes Up Space
Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What has mass and takes up space. Mass is the amount of matter or stuff in a certain object. Any thing that has mass and takes up space is matter. Basically any type of energy or any abstract concept is an example of something that is not matter.
Every day you encounter phenomena that either don t have mass or don t take up space. Sometimes matter may be difficult to identify. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
For most common objects that we deal with every day it is fairly simple to demonstrate that they have mass and take up space. A book is matter a computer is matter food is matter and dirt in the ground is matter. For example air is matter but because it is so thin compared to other matter e g a book a computer food and dirt we sometimes forget that air has mass and takes up space.
You might be able to imagine however the difficulty for people several hundred years ago to demonstrate that air has mass and volume.