Homework Help: PHYSICS

Posted by Katie on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 7:30pm.

assume you have a mass of 100 kg on earth. on the moon, where the gravitation of the moon is 1/6 gravitation of the earth, what is your mass on the moon and what is your weight on the moon

PHYSICS - bobpursley, Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 7:32pm
Mass is the same on the moon. Weight, however, on the moon is 1/6 of the weight on Earth.
PHYSICS - Harshid, Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 1:21am
Weight on earth= mg
= 100 kg x 9.8 m/s²
= 980 N

Weight on moon = 1/6 x mg
= 1/6 x 980 N
= 163.33 N

However mass is same anywhere in the universe.

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