Let's say your textbooks have a total mass of 3.0kg. What would the mass of the books be if they were taken to Jupiter where the acceleration due to gravity is 10 times that of Earth?
2007-10-03 09:06:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The mass would be the same. Mass is independent of gravitational field strength.
2007-10-03 09:10:04 · answer #1 · answered by 1,1,2,3,3,4, 5,5,6,6,6, 8,8,8,10 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The mass stays the same. What changes is the weight (the force by which you can stop them from accelerating towards the planet's centre).
In space, away from any other mass (no gravitational field), the mass is still 3 kg.
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Take a steel girder that weighs one tonne on Earth. Take it up in space, near the space station. Once in orbit near the station, the girder apepars to float weightlessless.
In older movies, they would show astronauts move the girder around with one hand. Hey, it is weightless.
However, that one tonne girder, even moving at 1 m/s relative to the station, will crush your hand if you get it caught between the girder and the station's side. It may weigh nothing but it still has a mass of 1 tonne and the speed of 1 m/s had to go to zero in the thickness of your hand (let's say 1 cm).
To go from 1 m/s to 0 in 1 cm, the required deceleration is 5 times the gravity at Earth's surface : the hand got 5 tonnes from the girder, even though it was weightless...
2007-10-03 09:19:01 · answer #2 · answered by Raymond 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The mass would be the same. Weight is the product of mass and acceleration due to gravity. On Jupiter your weight would be 10 times as much, but the mass would be the same.
2007-10-03 09:10:07 · answer #3 · answered by chemcook 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mass is a constant. Weight would change, since acceleration due to gravity would be different.
2007-10-03 09:10:33 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
on the same time as your question is worded in a puzzling way, i visit purpose perfect to describe. Gravity hurries up any mass down in direction of the midsection of the Earth. that's additionally represented as a stress, as F = mass*acceleration = mg An merchandise sitting on the floor won't pass down, in spite of the undeniable fact that gravity nonetheless acts upon it. for that reason, to counteract the stress of gravity (this is needed for an equilibrium "static" subject wherein the chair isn't moving), this is spoke of that there is an equivalent and opposite stress that pushes up on the chair to counteract the stress of gravity. This stress could be offered by ability of the floor the chair is sitting on. interior the same way, in case you have been sitting on the chair, you could journey the two a stress downward because of gravity, yet in addition a stress upward from the chair. for that reason, the two forces cancel out as they're in opposite instructions, and you do no longer pass up or down.
2016-12-17 16:15:53 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
30 kg
2007-10-03 09:09:03 · answer #6 · answered by 1chunx4u 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
accel. would be negative something, since the force of gravity would draw an object downwards.
2007-10-03 09:09:23 · answer #7 · answered by IggySpirit 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
mass doesn't change. weight does.
2007-10-03 09:09:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
mass = 3Kg
Weight = 300N
2007-10-03 09:10:49 · answer #9 · answered by WillsBradford 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋