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Explain why your weight would be less on the moon than on Earth even though your mass would not change. Use the law of universal gravitation in your explanation.

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The weight is defined by:

w=mg\begin{aligned} &w=m\cdot g \end{aligned}

where mm is mass of a body and gg is free-fall acceleration.

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