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A piece of paper Fig. (a) is in form of a square. Now an arrow sign is made by cutting and rejoining a quarter part of the square of side ' L ' as shown. If O is taken to be origin (0,0), the centre of mass of Fig. (b) will be at

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Two planks A and B are sliding in the same direction on smooth horizontal surface such that A is faster than B. Packets of equal weight are transferred from A to B. Due tò this: 

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An object comprises of a uniform ring of radius R and its uniform chord A B (not necessarily made of the same material) as shown. Which of the following can not be the centre of mass of the object?

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A machinist starts with three identical square plates but cuts one corner from first, two corners from the second and three corners from the third. Rank the three according to the x -coordinate of their centre of mass, from smallest to largest.

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An inverted T -shaped object is placed on a smooth horizontal floor as shown in figure.

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A force F is applied on the system as shown in figure. The value of x so that the system performs pure translational motion is

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A circular plate of uniform thickness has a diameter of 28 cm. A circular portion of diameter 21 cm is removed from the plate as shown. O is the centre of mass of complete plate. The position of centre of mass of remaining portion will shift towards left from ' O ' by

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Figure shows a thin uniform rod50 cm long and has a mass of 100 g. A hollow metal ball is filled with air and has a diameter 10 cm and total mass 50 g is fixed to one end of the rod. At what point along its length will the ball and rod balance horizontally?

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Two blocks of masses 6 kg and 4 kg are attached to the two ends of a massless string passing over a smooth fixed pulley. If the system is released, the acceleration of the centre of mass of the system will be 
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Three particles of equal masses are placed at the corners of an equilateral triangle as shown in the figure. Now particle A starts with a velocity v1 towards line A B, particle B starts with a velocity v2 towards line B C and particle C starts with velocity v3 towards line C A.The displacement of CM of three particle A, B and C after time t will be (given if v1=v2=v3 

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