Question

The acceleration due to gravity on Mars is 3.7 m/s^2. What is the weight of a 50-kg person on this planet?

(Use the formulas for weight, gravity and the triangle for the 2nd Newton's law to solve the problem)
a. What are you solving for?
b. What data is given in the text?
c. What is the formula to find what you are solving for?
d. Solve the problem.

Answer 1

185 Newtons

Step-by-step explanation:

We are solving for the weight of a person on a planet and we are given the mass and acceleration of the person on the planet. Because we know that weight is the force that a person exerts due to gravity and the formula for it is w = mg, all we need to do is plug in our values to get w = (3.7 m/s^2)(50 kg) which = 185 newtons