How can you lift this amount of weight with so less force?

Classical Mechanics Level 3

By applying a force of 1N How much weight can one hold? Answers in Grams.

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The answer is 1000.

Mehul Arora by Mehul Arora , 20, India

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2 solutions

Yash Khatri
Jan 1, 2015

F=mg=W (weight of the body)

Therefore W=1kg or 1000g

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First of all weight cannot be equal to 1kg. Weight = 1N. mass =1/9.8*1000=102 or 100gm.

answer should be Weight=1

Gautam Sharma - 6 years, 5 months ago

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The question already states answer in grams, W=mg

Therefore, Answer WILL BE 1000g

Yash Khatri - 6 years, 5 months ago

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I know its in gms.

Weight cannot be in grams firstly and if we are saying it in grams we are talking about gram-weight force. And if it is Gram-weight force then also it will be 100gm-wt force which will give 1N so answer should be 100 in grams and I tried 100 firstly .

Gautam Sharma - 6 years, 5 months ago
Nelson Mandela
Dec 31, 2014

1N is in SI units. so we can lift 1 Kg i.e. 1000g

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you cannot lift 1kg as acceleration due to gravity is not 1 m / s 2 1m/s^2 it is 10 or 9.8 . so we can approximately lift 100gms.

Gautam Sharma - 6 years, 5 months ago

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