2006-10-23 16:26:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Your mass always stays constant, unless you were to lose an arm. Your weight changes due to gravity. The moon has much less gravity than Earth, hence the jumping you do there. This means that although your mass is the same you weigh less because not as much gravity is pulling you down.
2006-10-23 16:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weight changes, never mass. Mass is how much matter an object consists of, whereas weight is really the measure of the gravitational pull on that certain amount of matter. You will not change size going to the moon, but you will weigh less because the gravitational pull is less on the moon than on Earth.
2006-10-23 16:34:58 · answer #2 · answered by Meollo de la vida 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your weight will change because of no gravity. I saw in the science book one day a weight table for different planets. It showed on the far left how much you weigh, then how much you would weigh on the other planets. And you weigh nothing on the moon because of no gravity. Each planet has either less or more gravity and makes you weigh different. Gravity is pushing you down on the scale to make you weigh more. If you are on a scale, and someone is on top of you pushing you down, it makes you weigh more. The less the gravity, the less you weith. Mass has nothing to do with it. That always stays the same. And i also read that people are taller in space because of no gravity. Your height changes on the moon too by a few inches
2006-10-23 16:31:18 · answer #3 · answered by Aaron 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weight will change, mass will not.
Mass is the amount of matter in an object. Weight is the amount of force that a local gravitational field exerts on a mass.
To change an object's mass, you need to modify the physical nature of the object, adding or removing pieces, or perhaps changing it chemically.
To change an object's weight, you just need to put it in a different gravitational field, or even move it within the same gravitational field, until said field itneracts with it in a different way, for example, moving it away to reduce the force that the field is able to exert on the object.
2006-10-23 16:43:02 · answer #4 · answered by omikapsi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The weight will change. Weight is the amount of gravitational pull on an object. Mass is how much space is taken up by an object. The mass of an item will not change just because of the different planet it is on.
2006-10-23 16:40:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
weight is defined as the pull of gravity. When you go to the moon (less gravity) your weight will also change. But the mass is constant since it is the amount of matter in an object.
2006-10-23 16:37:29 · answer #6 · answered by dennis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weight is the pull of gravity on a certain mass. Since gravity will be different on the moon, so will the weight.
2006-10-23 16:28:14 · answer #7 · answered by g0atbeatr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because weight is defined as mass*g where g is pretty much the same all over the surface of the earth. So clearly, as mass increases, so does weight.
2016-03-28 05:42:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weight, its determined by how hard the force of gravity pulls on your body. On the Moon there is little to no gravity so therefore no weight.
Mass would not change because it is a factor of the space you take up (the amount of matter you have) which won't change regardless of your weightlessness.
2006-10-23 17:46:06 · answer #9 · answered by NAUChica 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weight is relative to gravity. Your weight will be different on the moon, but not mass.
2006-10-23 16:28:29 · answer #10 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋