Question

A container of rocks with a mass of 65.0 kilograms is brought back from the Moon’s surface where the acceleration due to gravity is 1.62 meters per second2. What is the weight of the container of rocks on Earth’s surface?

Answer 1

Answer: 637.7 N

Step-by-step explanation:

The weight of an object on Earth's surface is given by

`W=mg`

where

m is the mass of the object

g is the value of the gravitational acceleration

In this problem, we have a container with mass m=65.0 kg, while the value of g on Earth's surface is g=9.81 m/s^2. Therefore, the weight of the container on Earth's surface is

`W=mg=(65.0 kg)(9.81 m/s^2)=637.7 N`