A 2 kg body weighs 19.62 N at sea level

PHYSICS · Subjective · CBSE · Physics · Gravitation · Gravitation

Problem

A 2 kg body weighs 19.62 N at sea level. Its weight at a hill station is found to be 0.2 % less. Calculate the altitude of the station above sea level. Take Earth’s radius R=6.4×106 mR = 6.4 \times 10^{6}\,\text{m}.

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