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Why a beam balance will give the same reading on both the earth and the moon?

April 26, 2017Balance beam earth moon Reading

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Why a beam balance will give the same reading on both the earth and the moon?

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A beam balance is designed to measure mass, not weight, and as such is not affected by local gravity. While the “weight” of the unknown object and the standardized mass are affected by gravity, as mass is evaluated by comparison, rather than by scale, the comparative masses remain the same.