Think Critically Because of your physics knowledge, you

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Think Critically Because of your physics knowledge, you are serving as a scientific consultant for a new science-fiction TV series about space exploration. In episode 3, the heroine, Misty Moonglow, has been asked to be the first person to ride in a new interplanetary transport for use in our solar system. She wants to be sure that the transport actually takes her to the planet she is supposed to be going to, so she needs to take a testing device along with her to measure the force of gravity when she arrives. The script writers dont want her to just drop an object, because it will be hard to depict different accelerations of falling objects on TV. They think theyd like something involving a scale. It is your job to design a quick experiment Misty can conduct involving a scale to determine which planet in our solar system she has arrived on. Describe the experiment and include what the results would be for Pluto (g " 0.30 m/s2 ), which is where she is supposed to go, and Mercury (g " 3.70 m/s2), which is where she actually ends up