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The effective weight of an object at any place on earth mainly depends on three things:
1. The gravitational pull of the earth on the object.
2. The centripetal acceleration on the object caused by the rotation of the earth on its axis.
3. The mass of the object.
The gravitational acceleration is typically quoted as g is 9.80665\mathrm{ms}^{-2} and the weight W of an object as W=mg.
Part 1: The figure quoted in this question for g assumes that the earth is a sphere. Newton's law of gravitation says that the gravitational acceleration felt at a distance R from the centre of a uniform sphere is given by
g =\frac{GM}{R^2}\;,\quad G = 6.67300\times 10^{-11} \mathrm{m}^3 \mathrm{kg}^{-1} \mathrm{s}^{-2}.
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