hank Wrote:
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> Roger Hogan Wrote:
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> >
> > . IMHO
> > the weight of a large lens gets heaver the
> farther
> > up the hill you get.
>
> Seems that way but, according to Sir Issac, it
> actually weighs less. Force goes down with the
> square of the distance between the centers of mass
> of two objects. Only a trivially small amount for
> climbing a hill, or Mt Everest for that matter,
> but it does go down as you go away from the Center
> of the Earth.
>
>
> Hank
>
> ps I knew all those physics classes would come in
> handy someday!
Right or wrong it feels heavier to me.