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On the moon, the acceleration due to the effect of gravity is only about 1/61 / 6 of that on Earth. An astronaut whose weight on Earth is 600 N600 \mathrm{~N} travels to the lunar surface. His mass, as measured on the moon, will be (a)600 kg(a) 600 \mathrm{~kg}, (b) 100 kg100 \mathrm{~kg}, (c)61.2 kg(c) 61.2 \mathrm{~kg}, (d)9.81 kg(d) 9.81 \mathrm{~kg}, (e) 360 kg360 \mathrm{~kg}.

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In this question, we have to find the astronaut's mass on the moon where we have:

w=Fg=600 Nge=9.81 ms2gm=16ge=1.635 ms2\begin{aligned} w&=F_{g}\\ &= 600 \mathrm{~N}\\ g_{e}&=9.81\mathrm{~\dfrac{m}{s^{2}}}\\ g_{m}&=\dfrac{1}{6}\cdot g_{e}\\ &=1.635\mathrm{~\dfrac{m}{s^{2}}}\\ \end{aligned}

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