75 kg man weighs himself at the north pole and at the equator. Which scale reading is higher and by how much? Assume the Earth is a perfect sphere with a completely uniform mass distribution.

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A particle, body, object or certain mass while travelling in a rotational path or semicircular path, experiences an inertia force. If that inertia force pulls the towards the inward of the imaginary circle in the rotation, it is termed as centripetal force.