Can you weigh yourself on the planet of Jupiter?, if so how?

Question

weighing yourself on planet Jupiter

Answer 1

If you know your mass (not weight), you can use the gravitational constant, your distance from the center of Jupiter, your mass, and the mass of Jupiter to find the weight.

Answer 2

Everyone is wrong. Well the math is right but you cannot weigh yourself on Jupiter because it has no solid surface on which to put a scale or measurement device. If you found a way to get a scale that is motionless relative to the surface while still being within Jupiter's atmosphere and be able to negate any outside accelerations on the body then you could find your weight on Jupiter.

Answer 3

same way you weigh yourself on earth: with a scale but your weight will be different from your weight on earth because each planet has a different gravitational force. For Earth, this force is 9.8 m/s^2 or 32.17ft/s^2. According to Newton's2nd law F = ma (force = mass × acceleration), where F is the weight and acceleration is the gravitational force. Therefore on Earth, F=9.8m or F= 32.17m. Gravitational force of Jupiter is F= ma where "a" is the gravitational force of Jupiter.

Answer 4

Remember, weight is the gravitational force a body is exerting on you, thus it depends on the planet. Mass on the other hand is universal.

Now you can actually "weigh" yourself in space. I believe this is done by putting the astronaut in a machine which vibrates at a designated velocity to determine their momentum. Since momentum is just mass times velocity, this gives the mass, which can then be converted to Newtons, or some otherwise meaningful unit typically associated with weight, generally using Earth and its gravitational acceleration as our point of reference.

Of course on Earth to find our mass we just take our weight (in Newtons) and divide that by the "constant" acceleration (approximately 9.81 m/s/s at the sea level). (A Newton is a unit of force, where Force = mass * acceleration.)

While your mass will be the same wherever you are, you will "weigh" considerably more on Jupiter, which can be determined by the equation:
F=G*m1*m2*r^(-2), where G is the gravitational constant, m1 would be the mass of Jupiter, approximately 1.9*10^27 kg, m2 would be your mass, and r would be your elevation in meters (distance from the center of mass of Jupiter). This is actually how we derive the constant acceleration (9.80 m/s/s) for Earth at standard elevation.

Note: By taking the two aforementioned equations, or by dividing the latter equation by your mass, we find the acceleration at Jupiter's surface to be F=G*m1/r^2, approximately 24.8 m/s/s. If we compare this to Earth's "constant" acceleration of 9.80 m/s/s, you should weigh about 2.5 times more on Jupiter.

Answer 5

yes and no. to find out what you would weigh on the planet jupiter, you would take your earth weight and divide by the gravitational constant for earth, which happens to be 9.8 m/s^2, considering you converted your weight from pounds to kilograms. from there, you would find the gravitational constant of jupiter, and multiply your raw mass by that constant to find your weight on jupiter.

i say no, because although i do not know jupiter's gravitational constant, i believe that it is nearly 9 to 10 times that of earth's gravitational constant, making you a squashed bug on jupiter.

Answer 6

yes because our weight is the attracting force between the planet and ourself.General rule:Every particles in the universe attracts each other

Answer 7

yes, you would weigh about 25 times more than you do on earth.

Answer 8

first, get a rocket............................well, let me know how it goes for ya, k?