A spring balance is graduated on sea level. If a body is weighed with this balance at consecutively increasing heights from earth's surface, the weight indicated by the balance

  • A

    Will go on increasing continuously

  • B

    Will go on decreasing continuously

  • C

    Will remain same

  • D

    Will first increase and then decrease

Similar Questions

A body weight $500 \,N$ on the surface of the earth. How much would it weigh half way below the surface of the earth ....... $N$

If a man at the equator would weigh $(3/5)^{th}$ of his weight, the angular speed of the earth is

At  ..... $km$ height from the surface of earth the gravitation potential and the value of $g$ are  $-5.4 \times 10^7\, J kg^{-1}$ and $6.0\,m s^{-2}$ respectively . Take the radius of earth as $6400\, km$.

  • [NEET 2016]

The acceleration due to gravity is found upto an accuracy of $4 \,\%$ on a planet. The energy supplied to a simple pendulum to known mass ' ${m}$ ' to undertake oscillations of time period $T$ is being estimated. If time period is measured to an accuracy of $3\, \%$, the accuracy to which ${E}$ is known as $..........\,\%$

  • [JEE MAIN 2021]

The ratio of inertial mass and gravitational mass has been found to be $1$ for all material bodies. Were this ratio different for different bodies, the two bodies having same gravitational mass but different inertial mass would have?