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A force of 50 N is making an angle of 30°with x-axis, Find the magnitude of the vertical component.

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A boy is hanging from a horizontal branch of a tree. The tension in the arms will be maximum when the angle between the arms is
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Two bodies of mass 4 kg and 6 kg are attached to the ends of a string passing over a pulley. The 4 kg mass is attached to the table by another string. The tension in this string T1 is g=9·8 m s-2


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The maximum and minimum magnitudes of the resultant of two forces are 17 newton and 7 newton respectively, if these two forces are acting at right angle to each other, then the value of resultant of these forces in newton will be :
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The sum of the magnitudes of two forces acting at a point is 16 N. The resultant of these forces is perpendicular to the smaller force and has a magnitude of 8 N. If the smaller force is of magnitude x, then the value of x is,
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A block of mass 10 kg is suspended through two light spring balances as shown in the figure.

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A mass M kg is suspended by a weightless string. The horizontal force required to hold the mass at 60o with the vertical is
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A balloon of gross weight w Newton is falling vertically downward with a constant acceleration a(<g). The magnitude of the air resistance is (Neglecting buoyant force)

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The strength of a force is usually expressed by its______.
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Two forces 3 N and 2 N are at an angle θ such that the resultant is R. The first force is now increased to 6 N and the resultant become 2R. The value of θ is:
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If a 5 N and a 15 N forces are acting opposite to one another. Find the resultant force and the direction of action of the resultant force.
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The engine of a car produces an acceleration of 6 m s-2 in the car. If this car pulls another car of the same mass, then the acceleration would be,
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At the instant t=0, a force F=kt ( k is a constant) acts on a small body of mass m resting on a smooth horizontal surface. The time, when the body leaves the surface is

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Two masses m1=5 kg and m2=10 kg, connected by an inextensible string over a frictionless pulley, are moving as shown in the figure. The coefficient of friction of horizontal surface is 0.15. The minimum weight m that should be put on top of m2 to stop the motion is:

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A body is under the action of two mutually perpendicular forces of 3 N and 4 N. The resultant force acting on the body is
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A bird of weight 5 N sits at the mid-point of a clothesline. The line is so distorted that it makes 30° angles with the horizontal at each end as shown in figure. The tension in the clothesline is :

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The square of resultant of two equal forces is three times their product. Angle between the forces is
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Cotyledons are also called-
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A body is said to be under balanced forces when the resultant force applied on that body is _______

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An elevator weighing 6000 kg is pulled upward by a cable with an acceleration of 5 m s-2. The tension in the cable is, g=10 m s-2

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Look at the diagram. Choose the best description of the total forces. (Lines with arrows indicate the forces and their directions)

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