Gravitation

Question

The weight of a body on the earth is …. Then weight of the body when taken to a depth half of the radius of the earth will be:

Accepted Answer

Option B. The gravitational field inside a uniform spherical body varies linearly with distance from the center. If we consider the Earth to be such a body, then the gravitational field strength (and hence weight) of an object would decrease linearly as we go deeper inside the Earth.

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