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the acceleration due to gravity on the top of the Mount
Everest of height 8848m from the sea level. Also calculate
the weight of a body having mass 80kg at that height of the
radius & mass of the earth is 6400km and 6x10^24kg
respectively.

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What is the acceleration due to gravity on the top of Mount Everest ? Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak of the world at the height of 8848 m. The value at sea level is 9.80 ms

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Given,

h=8848m

The value of sea level is 9.08m/s

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So,

Let g

′

be the acceleration due to the gravity on the Mount Everest.

g

′

=g(1−

h

2h

)

=9.8(1−

6400000

17696

)

=9.8(1−0.00276)

9.8×0.99724

=9.773m/s

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Thus, the acceleration due to gravity on the top of Mount Everest is =9.773m/s

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