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Re: [Phys-L] apparent weight


On 2014, Dec 11, , at 08:04, Jeffrey Schnick <JSchnick@Anselm.Edu> wrote:

I agree with David Bowman. I find that I weigh 1-2 pounds more after breakfast than I do when I first get up. However, for a person whose mass does not change during the day, I find that the person's apparent weight would be on the order of a tenth of a gram greater at noon than it would be at midnight. You can check my work here <http://youtu.be/l6RBVHGyRec> and here <http://www.anselm.edu/internet/physics/phys-l/apparentWeight.pdf>.


At an intermediate level Thornton | Marion devotes considerably space to this prob.

The fifth ed. pp. 198 => 204 + probs. in ch 5 Gravitation.

bc hasn’t chequed out JD’s version, yet. (or the above)