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Assertion: The apparent weight of a body in an elevator moving with some downward acceleration is less than the actual weight of body.

Reason: The part of the weight is spent in producing downward acceleration, when body is in elevator.

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Important Questions on Newton's 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 moving in the xy-plane experiences a velocity dependent force F=kυyi^+υxj^, where υx and υy are the x and y components of its velocity υ. If a is the acceleration of the particle, then which of the following statements is true for the particle ?
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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 ball is thrown upward with an initial velocity V0 from the surface of the earth. The motion of the ball is affected by a drag force equal to  mγv2 (where m is mass of the ball, v is its instantaneous velocity and γ is a constant). Time taken by the ball to rise to its zenith is:
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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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A ball of mass 0.45 kg which is initially at rest is hit by a bat. The bat remains in contact with the ball for 3×10-3 s. During this time period the force on the ball by the bat is given as Ft=α×106t-β×109t2 N where α and β are constants. The ball's speed immediately as it loses contact with the bat is 20 m s-1. The correct relation between α and β is
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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 body of mass m is moving in a straight line with momentum p. Starting at time t=0, a force F=at acts in the same direction on the moving particle during time interval of T. So that its momentum changes from p to 2p. The value of T 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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The force on a body of mass 1 kg is 20 i^+10 j^ N. If it starts from rest, then the position of the body at time t=2 s, 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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When will a body of mass 20 kg moving at 15 m s-1, subjected to a retarding force of 100 N, come to rest?
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The graph below shows the variation of a force F with time t on a body which is moving in a straight line. Dependence of force on time is Ftn. Initially body is at rest.

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If the speed of the object is 2 m/s at 3 s, then the speed at 4 s will be approximately (in m/s )

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Two horizontal forces F1 and F2 act on a ball of mass 8 kg. The forces are such that F1=14 N i^ and F2=20 N. If the x component of velocity vx changes linearly by 3 m s-1 in 1 sec, the angle between two forces is
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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: