The easy way
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Weight = Mass x Acceleration due to gravity.
Example:
A 2.5 kg board at sea level.
Weight = 2.5kg x 9.8m/s/s = 24.5 N
A confusion here is the use of Newtons (N). Outside of science you may not often see the metric unit of force. Scales will read kilograms (kg) instead. This is actually incorrect. Scales cannot measure mass, only force. However, they assume that you are standing at sea level and convert to kilograms.
The Hard Way
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Use Newton's gravitational equation with one mass being the mass of earth. Do not forget that r = distance from object to the center of the earth.
F = (G*m1*m2) / r^2
Weight = mass x gravity.
Example calculation with SI units: Weight of an object of a mass of one ton (1000 kilograms)?
1000 kilogram x 9.8 meter/second2 = 9800 Newton.
Weight is the measurement of gravitational force on an object, relevant to Earth.
The concept of the weight of the earth makes no sense. The weight of an object on earth is the force of the earth's gravity acting on that object's mass. The earth's gravity does not exert a force on itself. The earth does not have a weight in the context of the sun because it is in free-fall in its orbit around the sun. The mass of the earth is 5.97*1024 kilograms.
The object's mass is the same wherever it is. Mass doesn't change. What changes is the object's weight.The weight depends on what other mass happens to be nearby.When you know the object's weight on earth, multiply that by 0.1633 to find its weight on the moon.If you don't need it that close, it might be easier to just divide the earth weight by 6.
Your mass is always the same.
Mass is an inherent property of an object and it does not change. Most commonly, we weigh objects on the earth. An object's weight depends on the attraction by gravity to another object. The formula for weight on the earth is weight = (a constant) x (mass of object) x (mass of earth)/(d-squared) where d = distance between center of mass of object and center of mass of earth d-squared is the distance d, raised to the second power. A person weighs slightly less on the top of a mountain than they weigh at sea level. Because moon's mass is only about one-sixth the mass of the earth, the weight of a man on the moon is about 1/6 of his weight on the earth.
Weight = Mass multiplied by acceleration due to gravity Trust me! I'm a doctor!
Weight = Mass x Acceleration due to gravity W = mg
The downward force exerted on an object is caused by gravity (from the Earth). This force is called weight and can be calculated by multiplying the mass of the object by the acceleration due to gravity on Earth (about 9.8).
The weight of any object on the Moon is about 1/6 of the weight of the same object on the Earth.
This object has a weight on Earth of 67.5 pounds.
Since the weight of an object is calculated as the product of its mass times the mass of the Earth divided by the square of the distance between the object being weighed and the center of the Earth, almost no perceivable change will occur. This is because the two masses do not change, and the square of the distance from the Earth's center changes only slightly even in the deepest valley.
On the Earth, the object weighs 6.04 times as much as its weight on the moon.
The force of gravity between the Earth and an object on its surface is what we call the object's "weight". What is not generally appreciated is that the object attracts the Earth toward it with the same force. This means that whatever your weight is on Earth, it's the same as the Earth's weight on you.
The weight of an object on the moon's surface is 16.3% of the same object's weight on the earth's surface.
Weight is the measure of the earth's pull of an object.
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it is your weight on earth divided by 10