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You have more bacterial cells than human cells ā ~38 trillion bacteria vs ~30 trillion human cells.
Did you know?
You have more bacterial cells than human cells ā ~38 trillion bacteria vs ~30 trillion human cells.
A body weighs N on the surface of the earth. How much will it weigh half way down to the centre of the earth?
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To solve this problem, we need to understand how gravity changes as we move inside the Earth.The weight of a body is given by where is the acceleration due to gravity.On the surface of the Earth, the weight of the body is N.The acceleration due to gravity at a distance from the center of the Earth is given by:where is the acceleration due to gravity on the surface, is the radius of the Earth,and is the distance from the center of the Earth.Halfway down to the center of the Earth, Substitute into the equation for The weight of the body halfway down is then:Since the weight on the surface is N, we have: N.Thus, N.Therefore, the weight of the body halfway down to the center of the Earth is N.This corresponds to Option 4.
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