When You Step on a Weighing Scale at Noon, Earth

question 83

Multiple Choice

When you step on a weighing scale at noon, Earth pulls you downward and the overhead Sun pulls you upward. The reason the Sun's pull doesn't decrease your weight at noon is because

• A)the Sun's pull on you is negligibly small.
• B)the weighing scale is calibrated only in Earth weight.
• C)you, the scale, and Earth are in free fall (in orbit)around the Sun.
• D)the Sun's pull is cancelled by the gravitation of other celestial bodies.
• E)of tidal effects in the "solid" Earth.

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