During a balloon ascension, wearing an oxygen mask, you measure the weight of a calibrated 5.00-kg mass

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During a balloon ascension, wearing an oxygen mask, you measure the weight of a calibrated 5.00-kg mass and find that the value of the gravitational field strength at your location is 9.792 N/kg. How high above sea level, where the gravitational field strength was measured to be 9.803 N/kg, are you located?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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