Gravitation

Author:Jharkhand Board
9th Jharkhand Board
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Important Questions on Gravitation

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What happens to the force between two objects, if the masses of both objects are doubled?

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What happens to the force between two objects, if the distance between the objects is doubled and tripled?

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Write the formula to find the magnitude of the gravitational force between the earth and an object on the surface of the earth.

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State the universal law of gravitation.

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What do you mean by acceleration due to gravity?

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Calculate the force of gravitation between the earth and the Sun, given that the mass of the earth = 6×1024 kg and of the Sun = 2×1030 kg. The average distance between the two is 1.5×1011 m and the gravitational constant is G = 6.7 × 10-11 N m2kg-2.

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What do we call the gravitational force between the earth and an object?

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What is the importance of universal law of gravitation?

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What happens to the force between two objects, if the mass of one object is doubled?

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If the moon attracts the earth, why does the earth not move towards the moon?

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The earth and the moon are attracted to each other by gravitational force. Does the earth attract the moon with a force that is greater or smaller or the same as the force with which the moon attracts the earth? Why?

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What is the magnitude of the gravitational force between the earth and a 1 kg object on its surface? (Mass of the earth is 6×1024 kg, radius of the earth is 6.4×106 m and the gravitational constant is G = 6.7 × 10-11 N m2kg-2).

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How does the force of gravitation between two objects change when the distance between them is reduced to half?