Where in the world do you weigh the least? and the most?

Question

I have heard that a person has a different weight depending on where he or she is in the world, on those electronic scales. If this is true where do you weight the most and least?

Answer 1

I would guess the higher the less the lower the more...that is to say lower and higher than sea level...I wager that you way more in Death Valley CA than on Mt Everest.

Gravity is stronger closer to earth...weight is after all the result of gravity affecting ur mass....UR MASS CANT CHANGE...unless u lose a limb or something.

Answer 2

On Earth, TWO forces are defining your weight: the gravitational force that pulls you towards the center of the Earth, and the centripetal force due to the Earth rotation, which is in opposite direction to the gravitational force.
It is true that the gravitational force varies depending on being high or low on Earth, according to (k * M * m') / d^2, but by an infinitesimal value (really negligible!).
k is a constant, M the mass of the Earth, m' your mass, and d^2 the square of the distance between your center of gravity and the center of the Earth. Since the radius of Earth is around 6360km, even 10 km change in altitude will only change your weight by just about 0.01 %. Check 6360^2 versus 6370^2...
However, the centripetal force make a noticeable difference. At the poles, there is no centripetal force and you feel the full force of gravity: you "weight" more.
At the equator, the centripetal force opposes the gravitational pull, and you weight less...
But not much...

Answer 3

You are heaviest at the poles and lightest at Equator. This has to do with the centrifugal force from Earth's rotation which makes the Earth a little bit "flat": the distance between the poles is slightly smaller than the distance between two opposite points on Equator.

Therefore, at equator, you're further away from the center so gravity is weaker.

Also, the centrifugal force pulls you away from the Earth, so that you don't feel the entire gravity at Equator.

Answer 4

Weight is defined by gravity so you will weight the same on earth because the gravity of the earth pulls the same. If you move to a larger or smaller planet your weight would decrease or increase depending on the mass of the planet. Your mass or the ability to move an object without the pull of gravity would not change.

Answer 5

Yes, thats true. Our weight varies at different points on the earth depending upon the magnitude of the gravitational force experienced at that point, which varies with the distance of a body from the center of the earth.

In simpler words, our weight would be maximum at the center of the earth and the least at the farthest distance away from the center of the earth, which would occur in outer space, as there would be practically no gravitional force exerted by the earth at tht point.

Basically the magnitude of the force exerted by the earth upon any body is inversely proportional to the distance measuerd from the center of the earth to the body

Answer 6

You would weigh the least at the top of Mount Everest, and you would weigh the most at the bottom of the Marianas Trench (I think that's the deepest one in the ocean).

Why?

Gravity decreases according to a particular formula the further you get from the center of a planet.

Gravitational force = (G * m1 * m2) / (d2)

where G is the gravitational constant, m1 and m2 are the masses of the two objects for which you are calculating the force, and d is the distance between the centers of gravity of the two masses.

Answer 7

Earth's rotation causes our planet to bulge at the equator. This extra girth around the equator partly explains why things weigh more there than at the poles.

Answer 8

If you were on the moon you would only weigh 20 pounds if you weigh 120 on earth.

Answer 9

you weigh about 1/2 lb less at the equator than you do at one
of the poles on earth..
Nothing you would notice...
Unless you are a girl....