Question

mass of an object is 10 kg.What is its weight on the earth?What would be its weight when measured on the surface of the moon​

Answer 1

Answer:

on earth

is given as 10 kg.

Therefore, Weight = 10 kg * 9.8 m/s^2.

Weight = 98 kg.m/s^2. = 98 Newtons.

On moon

Weight is defined as the force which pulls a body towards the centre of the planet. The weight is directly proportional to the gravitational force of any area. The gravitational force on moon is one sixth of the gravitational force on earth.

Hence if a body is weighting 10 kilo on moon, its weight on the earth will be 60 kilograms. Hence the correct answer to the given question is 60 kilograms. This is done by the fact that weight on Earth will be 6 times the weight on moon because earths gravitational pull is 6 times that on moon.