Answer to the Question 09/97
The question was:Lunar Olympics will be conducted in a closed stadium located on the Moon. The stadium will be filled with air, pressurized to one atmosphere. What will be the Lunar-Olympic records in various fields. The table below details several sports and their records on Earth. (The numbers are approximate and slightly rounded.) Find the equivalent records on the Moon.
The following table will be filled out gradually as the answers arrive. Please send your answers, and suggestions.
| Sport | Earth record | Lunar record | Comment |
| 100m/10000m race | 9.8 sec/27 min | ||
| long jump | 9 m | ||
| shot put | 23 m | ||
| high jump | 2.5 m | ||
| pole vault | 6.1 m | ||
|
weight lifting- snatch/jerk/press | 148kg/188kg/?
1450N/1840N/? |
900kg/1140kg/? 1450N/1840N/? | 6a,6b |
6a. The snatch and clean-and-jerk world records belong to N. Suleymanoglu who is 150cm tall and weighs 64 kilograms
6b. (9/97) (Y. Kantor) It is resonably clear that at least approximately the weight which can be lifted on the Moon is equal to the weight on Earth (i.e. the athlete applies the same force). Consequently the mass which can be lifted on the Moon is larger than the mass on Earth by the ratio between the free-fall acceleration on Earth (=9.8m/sec2) and Moon (=1.62m/sec2). However, if you try to be a bit more accurate there must be some difference.
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