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Is it true that the acceleration due to gravity of the moon is one-sixth of that of the Earth?


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a

True

b

False 

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

The above statement is True.
The acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the Moon is about 1.625 ms-2, approximately 16.6 %  that on earth’s surface or 0.166 g. Over the entire surface, the variant in gravitational acceleration is about 0.0253 ms-2 (1.6 %  of the acceleration due to gravity).
 
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