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A spring balance is graduated on sea level. If a body is weighed with this balance at consecutively increasing heights from earth's surface, the weight indicated by the balance:

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Will go on increasing continuously
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Will go on decreasing continuously
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Will remain same
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Will first increase and then decrease
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Solution

The correct option is B Will go on decreasing continuously
We know weight of a body, W=mg where,
m is mass of the body and g is the acceleration due to gravity.
Also g=GMR2, where,
G is the universal gravitational constant, M is the mass of the Earth and R is the distance between the centre of the body and the centre of the Earth.
As the height of the body from Earth's surface increases, g decreases.
Therefore, the weight as measured by spring balance will decrease continuously.


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