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A. If you moved to a planet that has the same mass as the Earth but twice the diameter, how would your weight be affected?

b. If you moved to a planet that has twice the mass of the Earth and also twice the diameter, how would your weight be affected?

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Weight of a body of mass m is given by W = GMm/R^2 where G = Universal gravitational constant, M = ...

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