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A black hole is an object whose gravitational field is so strong that even light cannot escape from it. To what approximate radius would earth (mass =6×1024 kg) have to be compressed to be a black hole?

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At what height from the surface of earth the gravitational potential and the value of g are -5.4×107 J kg-1 and 6.0 ms-2 respectively ?
Take the radius of earth as 6400 km:  
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The ratio of escape velocity at earth ve to the escape velocity at a planet vp whose radius and mean density are twice as that of the earth is
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Starting from the centre of the earth having radius r, the variation of g (acceleration due to gravity) is shown by
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Two astronauts are floating in gravitational free space after having lost contact with their spaceship. The two will
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The kinetic energies of a planet in an elliptical orbit about the Sun, at positions A, B and C are KA, KB and KC respectively. AC is the major axis and SB is perpendicular to AB at the position of the Sun S as shown in the figure. Then

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If the mass of the Sun were ten times smaller and the universal gravitational constant were ten times larger in magnitude, which of the following is not correct? 
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Two spherical bodies of mass M and 5M and radii R and 2R released in free space with initial separation between their centres equal to 12R If they attract each other due to gravitational force only, then the distance covered by the smaller body before collision is 
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The height at which the acceleration due to gravity becomes g/9 (where g= the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of earth) in terms of R, the radius of the earth is