Your Weight Throughout the Solar System Based on your experience using the Mass

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Your Weight Throughout the Solar System

Based on your experience using the Mass Versus Weight interactive, answer the following questions:

1) Where did you observe the largest weight among the listed bodies? Explain why.

2) Where did you observe the smallest weight among the listed bodies? Explain why.

3) How would your mass change from the Sun to Pluto?

4) What causes weight?

5) Would you be weightless inside the International Space Station (ISS)? Does this mean that Earth's gravity is zero? What would happen to your mass at the ISS?

Explanation / Answer

1) Sun because it hass the largest mass

2) in space weight is zero.

3) it will decrease because pluto is smaller than sun and so mass as well as gravitational force both are less.

4) force of gravity on that body.

5) yes. no. mass remains constant throught.

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