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A body attached to a spring balance weighs 10 kg on the earth. The body attached to the same spring balance is taken to a planet, where gravity is half that of the earth. The spring balance will read

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Important Questions on Gravitation

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Consider the following figure. 

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Which of the following labelled points in the figure given above indicate the unstable state of an object?

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Gravitational force shares a common feature with electromagnetic force. In both cases, the force is
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A piece of paper and a coin both having the same mass are dropped from the 10th floor of a building. The piece of paper would take more time to reach the ground because 
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Statement I- The acceleration due to gravity decreases with an increase in height from the surface of the earth.

Statement II- The acceleration due to gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the centre of the earth. 

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Statement I- A body weighs less on a hilltop than on the Earth's surface even though its mass remains unchanged.

Statement II- The acceleration due to the gravity of the Earth decreases with height.

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If radius of the earth were to shrink by 1%, its mass remaining the same, then g would decrease by nearly
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The radius of the moon is about one-fourth that of the earth and acceleration due to gravity on the moon is about one-sixth that on the earth. From this, we can conclude that the ratio of the mass of the earth to the mass of the moon is about