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How Stokes law helps a man coming down with the help of parachute?

Important Questions on Dynamics: Explaining Motion

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Two objects of different masses falling freely near the surface of the moon would 
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If the resultant of all the forces acting on a body is zero, then the forces are
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A boy is whirling a stone tied with a string in a horizontal circular path. The string breaks, the stone
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On a normal day if you drop a feather and a rubber ball together from a height, then the rubber ball reaches the surface of the earth first because of :
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A stone of mass 0.25 kg tied to the end of a string is whirled round in a circle of radius 1.5 m with a speed of 40 rev/min in a horizontal plane. If the speed of the stone is increased beyond the maximum permissible value, and the string breaks suddenly, which of the following correctly describes the trajectory of the stone after the string breaks?
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Forces acting on a body are said to be balanced if
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The unequal and opposite forces acting on a body, which changes its state of rest or uniform motion are called :
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 An object moving along a straight line with constant speed is said to be in _____ (uniform/non-uniform) motion.
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When a toothpaste tube is squeezed, its shape changes. The force responsible for this is an example of 
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Neglecting rotation of the earth, if suddenly the attractive power of the earth drops to zero, a man standing on the earth will 
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An unbalanced force acting on an object changes its _____.
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When a body covers equal distance in equal intervals of time, however small may be the time intervals, the body is said to describe:
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Which motion does not require force to maintain its motion?
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Which of the following statement is not correct for an object moving along a straight path in an accelerated motion?
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A moving body will remain  ______________ if balanced forces acts on it.
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In which of the following cases is the net force NOT zero?
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_____ external force causes acceleration in a body.
(Choose one of the following: Unbalanced / Balanced).
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A body of weight W1 is suspended from the ceiling of a room through a chain of weight W2. The ceiling pulls the chain by a force W1_____W2. (Fill in the blank with the appropriate mathematical operator)
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In figure a 100kg uniform log hangs by two steel wires A and B, both the area of cross-section 5mm2. Initially, wire A was 2.50m long and 2.00mm shorter than wire B. The log is now horizontal. The Young's modulus of steel is 2×1011Nm2.
(dA and dB are the distances measured from the centre of log).

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The extension produced in wire A is:

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A ball is thrown up with an initial speed of 9.8 m s-1. How high does it travel?