What would change your mass or weight if you climbed up something?

Answer 1

The pull of gravity depends on the distance between the two objects. The total gravity of the earth is measured, roughly, from the center of the earth. The same with your body - your "center of gravity" is somewhere around your belly button. As you climb a mountain, the distance between your center and the earth's center gets a little bit longer, so the gravity is a little bit weaker. The end result is you weigh a little bit less. The same thing happens as you fly higher in an airplane. Keep going even higher in, say, the space shuttle, and eventually the gravity becomes so weak that you are practically weightless. (The mathematics and physics behind all of this is more complicated. I have tried to give a simpler answer, so before all you scientists blast me for over-simplifying, remember we don't know who asked this question in the first place, and how technical they want to get...)

Answer 2

Your weight is dependent on the force of gravity acting on you. The force of gravity is indirectly proporsionate to the square of the distance between you and the center of earth.

Your weight will therefore decrease as you go higher above the earth. Your mass however will stay constant.

Answer 3

-- Technically, your weight would decrease slightly because you would be farther

from the Earth's center. But certainly not enough for you to notice.

-- Technically, your mass doesn't change. It might, though, after a difficult climb,

since you've lost some of the protein, carbs, fat, etc. that comprise your body.

Answer 4

You would way the same on top of a mountain as you would on the ground because gravity affects you the same when your there.

Answer 5

yes the gravitational force will increase

Answer 6

No