The weight of a person at the equator, as determined by a spring balance is 715N.
By how much does this differ from the true force of gravitational attraction at the same point? Assume that the Earth is spherically symmetric.
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A physics student playing with an air hockey table (a frictionless surface) finds that if she gives the puck a velocity of 3.82 m/s...