If you were standing on a mountain, would you weigh more, less, or the same standing at sea level?

Question

If you were standing on a mountain, would you weigh more, less, or the same standing at sea level?? Why??

Answer 1

A little less. the further you are from the center of gravity of a mass (in this case the center of the earth) the less you weight.
Think of the space station, although its orbiting the earth, it is far from its center of gravity and is floating around it.
Also immagine dropping a marble down a hill, why is the marble rolling down the hill? It is "trying" to fall as close as it can to the earth's center of gravity. Dig a hole, same thing.
So you weight less because you are further away from the center of gravity.

Answer 2

Depends partly on the density of your mountain, LOL. Let's assume that your mountain is the same density as the usual ground and rock beneath your feet when you're at sea level.

Then, here's the answer your teacher wants to hear:

You'd weigh less, because you would be farther away from the center of mass of the Earth. The law of gravitation states that the gravitational force between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. So: The farther away you are from the Earth, the less you'd weigh. Being on a mountain is one way of being farther away from the center of the Earth.

Answer 3

You would weigh less (being further from the center of the Earth), but your mass would be the same. Taken to an extreme, if you stood on a very, very, very high mountain that reached up above the atmosphere, you would be in microgravity and would weigh almost nothing (though, once again, your mass does not change). I don't think the difference in buoyancy due to the air would make much difference (but I could be wrong)

Answer 4

You would weigh less. You would be VERY slightly farther away from the earth's center of mass (the core). The following equation is used to calculate gravitational force:

F = -G m2 * m1/r^2

So, gravity weakens as you get farther away from the object's center of mass. You would probably weigh about 10 grams or so less atop the 6-mile-tall Mt. Everest. A lot of work for an unnoticeable weight decrease. But think of all the exercise you'd get climbing!

Answer 5

It depends entirely on the mountain.

The composition of rock has vastly more impact on gravity than does altitude - the earth is very far from homogeneous.

In fact, the lowest gravity is India - if you want to weigh less go there, even at sea level.

Answer 6

you're able to weigh an exceedingly very small quantity much less. (that's the comparable as asserting that as quickly as you bounce into the sea it will develop the sea point.) you're able to weigh much less by fact which you're far off from the middle of the earth have been gravity is the main effective.

Answer 7

Less. Newton's law of gravity.

"Weight" is a force, and newton's law of gravity calculates that force like so:
Force equals (mass of object 1 times mass of object 2), divided by (the distance between the two objects, squared), times a constant ("G").

F = G * m1*m2 / d^2

Since you're further away from the bulk of earth's mass, the force due to gravity would be less, hence you'd weight less.

Same reason you'd weigh almost nothing in outer space.

Answer 8

we weigh less on mountain than what we weigh on sea level

Answer 9

you'de weigh the same. the gravitational lines go way out from the earths surface. thats why parachutes work. so, no matter what you put into space ,but not over 100,000 feet is still in gravitational pull. remenber that a pints a pound the world around....

Answer 10

im not sure of what kind of mountain you're talking about, but while in WV. two years back i was on a mountain that went up 2 and half miles. i can tell you this much...when my 4 wheeler roll on me it was the same weight as when we started up that mountain.