The mass of man on the surface of the earth is $100 kg$ . Does the weight of the man on the surface of the moon increase or decrease?

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Increases

Decreases

Neither increase nor decrease

Not predictable

answer is B.

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Detailed Solution

The weight of the man will decrease on the surface of the moon.
The weight of an object is the force with which it is pulled by the gravitational force. The weight of an object is calculated using the following formula:

W = mg

Where

m

is the mass and

g

is the acceleration due to gravity.
As mass is the amount of matter in a body, it does not change. The weight of any object on the moon will be lighter than that on Earth. The weight gets reduced to

1 / 6 th

on the moon as it does on Earth. As the gravitational pull of the moon is weaker in comparison with the Earth, so the weight of objects will decrease when they are on the surface of the moon.

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