Two students, Jordan and Taylor, are talking about light. Jordan says that light behaves as a stream of particles. Taylor declar
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Answer:
0.029%
Explanation:
Weight on the surface is given by,
The acceleration due to gravity at given height is,
The weight in another height is equal to
The change of the Weight is,
Answer:
C. Your mass is very small compared to Earth's mass.
Explanation:
Newton's third law of motion states that:
"When an object A exerts a force (action force) on an object B, object B exerts an equal and opposite force (reaction force) on object A".
If we apply this law to the situation described in the problem, we see that:
- The action force is the gravitational force exerted by the Earth on you
- The reaction force is the gravitational force exerted by you on the Earth
And according to the 3rd law, the magnitude of the two forces is equal:
(1)
We also know that, according to Newton's second law of motion, the force on an object is equal to the product between its mass (m) and its acceleration (a):
So we can rewrite (1) as
where
m is the your mass
a is your acceleration
M is the Earth's mass
A is the Earth's acceleration
For the term on the left, we see that m is small, so a is larger (therefore, your acceleration is visible). However, for the term on the right, we see that the mass of the Earth is very large (M is very large), therefore, A is very small, which means that the acceleration of the Earth is almost negligible because the Earth's mass is very large.