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Is your mass and weight the same on Earth?
Mass and weight are not the same. Mass is a measurement of the amount of matter in an object. Weight is the force of gravity on an object. It is calculated by multiplying your mass by the acceleration of gravity.
How do we know the mass of Earth?
We start by determining the mass of the Earth. Because we know the radius of the Earth, we can use the Law of Universal Gravitation to calculate the mass of the Earth in terms of the gravitational force on an object (its weight) at the Earth’s surface, using the radius of the Earth as the distance.
Why the weight of an object varies from one planet to another?
An object’s weight is dependent on its mass and how strongly gravity pulls on it. The strength of gravity depends on how far away one object is from another. That’s why the same object weighs different amounts on different planets. Your weight is different on other planets due to gravity.
Does your weight change when you go to the moon?
Since the Moon is smaller than Earth, it has a weaker gravitational pull. In fact, the Moon only has 1/6 the gravity that Earth does. This means you weigh six times less on the Moon than you do on Earth!
Why does weight varies from place to place?
A person can weigh differently at various place on Earth because of the fluctuations in Earth’s gravity, according to a new high-resolution map. Gravity is often assumed to be the same everywhere on Earth, but it varies because the planet is not perfectly spherical or uniformly dense, researchers said.
What varies from place to place?
Weight varies from place to place because gravity varies from place to place too. In space, there’s no gravity, so we experience WEIGHTLESSNESS. At poles, the gravity is less as compared to the equator, so the weight is lesser at poles. That way, weight of a body varies from place to place.
What will happen to mass and weight when you go to the moon?
It is also defined as the force of gravity acting on the object. Therefore, the mass of an object on the Moon remains the same as its mass on Earth. But its weight gets less because the gravity on the moon is less than on the Earth.