Monday, November 3, 2008

Force and weight

Knowing that force = mass * accleration, why is your weight change when you travel from one planet to the next??

7 comments:

ale said...

Because your weight deppends on your acceleration. So if you are in an different planet with less gravity, your weight is gonna be less to. And if your acceleration is gonna be height, your weight isgonna be height too.

streckfuss said...

Because your mass changes. Your acceleration also changes too. It is pretty wierd how that happens.

bertsch said...

The earth has more gravity so you wiegh more here. Out in space there is very little gravity so you wiegh next to nothing

amanda said...

Your mass changes when you change planets. Your weight is based on acceleration. Planets have less gravity which changes your weight.

Anonymous said...

It depends on the force of the acceleration due to gravity. If I went to the moon I would weigh less. If i went to Jupiter i would weigh more.

aaron peterson said...

The acceleration of gravity is different depending on the planet. The more mass the planet has the more gravity it has. That is why it varies from planet to planet.

jacob ochsner said...

The earth has a different amount of gravity thatn other planets. Larger planets have more gravity. Smaller planets have less gravity.