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Do you weigh more at night or during the day?

if you are standing on the equator, at night you have less pull from the sun but it is pulling you into the ground (weigh more) and during the day it is pulling you up (weigh less). But the centripetal and centrifugal forces (due to the earths orbit rather than rotation) have the opposite effect, so how does it work out?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There's possibly a negligible difference due to the differences in forces, however, on average you're actually heavier and shorter at night than during the day. It has more to do with biological processes than cosmological processes.

  • 1 decade ago

    Never really thought about that one or had it brought up in any Physics classes.

    However, I would think that it would be at night considering the conditions you give.... additive forces versus subtractive forces??

    I agree with the poster above that the difference is probably so small as to be hard to measure.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The upshot is that you will weigh less both at noon and at midnight compared to sunrise and sunset, if by "weight" you mean the net difference between your accelaration due to gravity and that of the Earth. (This is why there are two tidal bulges instead of just one.)

  • 1 decade ago

    That's a good question. I'm not too sure to be honest with you but I know the heights. I think, and I'm not entirely sure, that you are taller at night rather than the day with something related to gravitiy?

    Everything's a mystery, isn't it?!

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  • Izonu
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    the variance is so slight due to our size compared to the earth and sun etc. that it can't be noticeably measured.

  • 1 decade ago

    Could that be why we lie down at night - to conserve energy?.

  • los
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    depends on whether or not i had a late supper...

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