COSMIC PERSPECTIVE LL FD
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Chapter 7, Problem 47EAP
Comparative Weight. Suppose you weigh 100 pounds. Calculate how much you would weigh on each of the other planets in our solar system. Assume you can stand either on the surface or in an airplane in the planet’s atmosphere. (Hint: Recall from Chapter 4 that weight is mass times the acceleration of gravity; the “surface gravity” column in Appendix E tells you how the acceleration of gravity on other planets compares to that on Earth.)
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