
If acceleration due to gravity on the surface of earth is and let acceleration due to gravitational acceleration at surface of another planet of our solar system be . An astronaut weighing on earth goes to this planet in a spaceship with a constant velocity. The weight of the astronaut with time of flight is roughly given by,




Important Questions on Gravitation
A spherical hollow cavity is made in a lead sphere of radius , such that its surface touches the outside surface of the lead sphere and passes through its centre. The mass of the sphere before hollowing was . With what gravitational force will the hollowed-out lead sphere attract a small sphere of mass , which lies at a distance d from the centre of the lead sphere on the straight line connecting the centres of the spheres and that of the hollow, if

A straight rod of length extends from as shown in the figure. If the mass per unit length is The gravitational force it exerts on a point mass placed at is given by,

A uniform ring of mass is lying at a distance from the centre of a uniform sphere of mass just below the sphere as shown in the figure where is the radius of the ring as well as that of the sphere. Then gravitational force exerted by the ring on the sphere is



Two small balls of mass each are suspended side by two equal threads of length as shown in the figure. If the distance between the upper ends of the threads be , the angle that the threads will make with the vertical due to attraction between the balls is

A block of mass is lying at a distance from a spherical shell of mass and radius as shown in the figure. Then

