Is the weight of an object really its mass multiplied by the acceleration due to gravity?
The Weight of an object is calculated by multiplying the mass of the object by the acceleration due to gravity. The mass of an object is always held to be constant wherever in the universe. The acceleration due to gravity is constant within the workable limits of our experiments, within our atmosphere. It can’t be denied that somewhere up there, when the zero-g region is reached, g = 0 and that is where there is “weightlessness” and the mass just floats in orbit, not falling towards the Earth or the Moon. So, in a way, you could say that “g” keeps on getting progressively smaller until this region is reached, and becomes bigger and bigger as you approach Earth again. The same mass on Earth when brought to the Moon would weigh only 1 / 6 of its weight here in Earth because g of the Moon is 1/ 6 of the Earth’s gravitational acceleration. Now, you can form some ideas regarding “g” which is variable according to its distance from Earth, but within the scope of our projectiles, the free-fal
