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A spring balance is attached to the ceiling of a lift. A man hangs his bag on the spring and the spring reads 49 N, when the lift is stationary. If the lift moves downward with an acceleration of 5 m s-2, the reading of the spring balance will be

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Important Questions on Laws of Motion

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A person is standing in an elevator. In which situation, he experiences weight loss ?
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Two wooden blocks are moving on a smooth horizontal surface such that the block having mass m remains stationary with respect to block of mass M as shown in the figure below. The magnitude of the applied force P is, 

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A block of mass M placed inside a box descends vertically with acceleration a. The block exerts a force equal to one-fourth of its weight on the floor of the box. The value of a will be
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A particle of mass m is initially at rest at the origin. It is subjected to a force and starts moving along the x - axis. Its kinetic energy changes with time as dKdt=γt, where γ is a positive constant of appropriate dimensions. Which of the following statements is (are) true?
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A boy is standing on a weighing machine inside a lift. When the lift goes upwards with acceleration g4, the machine shows the reading 50kg. wt. When the lift goes downward with acceleration g4, the reading of the machine in kg. wt. would be
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A mass of 10 kg is suspended vertically by a rope from the roof. When a horizontal force is applied on the rope at some point, the rope deviated at an angle of 45° at the roof point. If the suspended mass is at equilibrium, the magnitude of the force applied is g=10 m s-2
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When a lift of mass 800 kg is ascending with an acceleration of 5 m s-2, the tension in its cable will be ______ take (g=10 m s-2
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An elevator of mass m  is connected to a rope which pulls the elevator up with a maximum acceleration equal to a . If the maximum bearable tension in the rope is T , then for a safe journey the minimum diameter of the rope is [ g = acceleration due to gravity]
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A girl drops an apple from the window of a train which is moving on a straight track with speed increasing with a constant rate. The trajectory of the falling apple as seen by the girl is
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A plumb line is suspended from a ceiling of a car moving with horizontal acceleration a. What will be the angle of inclination with vertical?
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A stream of water flowing horizontally with a speed of 15 ms-1 gushes out of a tube of cross-sectional area 10-2 m2 and hits a vertical wall nearby. The force exerted on the wall by the impact of water (assuming it does not rebound) is
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A particle is moving along the x -axis with its coordinate with time t given by xt=10+8t-3t2. Another particle is moving along the y -axis with its coordinate as a function of time given by yt=5-8t3. At t=1 s, the speed of the second particle as measured in the frame of the first particle is given as v. Then vin m s-1 is ___________.
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A rod of weight W is supported by two parallel knife edges A and B and is in equilibrium in a horizontal position. The knives are at a distance d from each other. The centre of mass of the rod is at distance x from A . the normal reaction on A is:
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A block A takes 2 s to slide down a frictionless incline of 30° and length l, kept inside a lift going up with uniform velocity v. If the incline is changed to 45°, the time taken by the block, to slide down the incline, will be approximately:
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Three blocks A, B and C, of masses 4 kg, 2 kg 1 kg and respectively, are in contact on a frictionless surface, as shown. If a force of 14 N  is applied on the 4 kg block, then the contact force between A and B is:

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Two blocks A and B of masses 3m and m respectively are connected by a massless and inextensible string. The whole system is suspended by a massless spring as shown in figure. The magnitudes of acceleration of A and B immediately after the string is cut, are respectively
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The machine as shown has 2 rods of length 1 m connected by a pivot at the top. The end of one rod is connected to the floor by a stationary pivot and the end of the other rod has roller that rolls along the floor in a slot. As the roller goes back and forth, a 2 kg weight moves up and down. If the roller is moving towards right at a constant speed, the weight moves up with a :

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A man weighing 60 kg is in a lift moving down with an acceleration of 1.8 ms-2. The force exerted by the floor on him is?
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Two blocks  A and  B of masses mA=1 kg and mB=3 kg are kept on the table as shown in figure. The coefficients of friction between A and B is 0.2 and between  B and the surface of the table is also 0.2. The maximum force F that can be applied on B horizontally, so that the block  A does not slide over the block B is : [Take  g=10 m/s2 ]
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A rocket is fired vertically from the earth with an acceleration of 2g, where g is the gravitational acceleration. On an inclined plane inside the rocket, making an angle θ with the horizontal, a point object of mass m is kept. The minimum coefficient of friction μmin between the mass and the inclined surface such that the mass does not move is: