Homework Help: physics

Posted by jill on Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 5:36pm.

on the surface of earth, a spacecraft has a mass of 2.00x10^4 kilograms. What is the mass of the spacecraft at a distance of one earth radius above earths surface?

physics - Azren, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 5:57pm
the mass of the spacecraft would be the same because mass doesn't change when distance from the earth changes. so the answer is 2.00x10^4 kg

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