The mass of a basketball on the earth is taken as 60 kg. What will be the weight of that basketball on moon?
Take acceleration due to gravity on earth to be $10 m s^{- 2}$ .

100 N

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Solution

The correct option is A $100 N$
Acceleration due to gravity on moon is $\frac{1}{6} t h$ of the earth.
$g^{'} = g / 6$
$g^{'} = 10 / 6 m / s^{2}$

Weight on the moon would be:
$W^{'} = m g^{'}$
$W^{'} = 60 \times 10 / 6 = 100 N$

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The mass of a basketball on the earth is taken as 60 kg. What will be the weight of that basketball on moon? Take acceleration due to gravity on earth to be 10 ms−2.

The correct option is A 100 NAcceleration due to gravity on moon is 16th of the earth. g′=g/6 g′=10/6 m/s2 Weight on the moon would be: W′=mg′ W′=60×10/6=100 N

The mass of a basketball on the earth is taken as 60 kg. What will be the weight of that basketball on moon?
Take acceleration due to gravity on earth to be $10 m s^{- 2}$ .

The correct option is A $100 N$
Acceleration due to gravity on moon is $\frac{1}{6} t h$ of the earth.
$g^{'} = g / 6$
$g^{'} = 10 / 6 m / s^{2}$

Weight on the moon would be:
$W^{'} = m g^{'}$
$W^{'} = 60 \times 10 / 6 = 100 N$