Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Tracy on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 5:00pm.

A 784 Newton astronaunt travels to Neptune's largest moon, Triton, with a simple bathroom scale. While standing on the surface of the moon, he finds that he now weighs only 62 Newtons. What is g, acceleration due to gravity, on Triton?

g=weight/mass

Is that 784/62?

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