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Question
A body weighs 4.0 kg-wt on the surface of the Earth. What will be its weight on the surface of a plant whose mass is `1/8` th of the mass of the Earth and radius half `(1/2)` of that of the Earth?
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Solution
We = 4.0 kg-wt.,
Weight of the body on the surface of a planet will be 2 kg-wt
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