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The mass of the moon is 1/8th of the earth but the gravitational pull is 1/6th of the earth. It is due to the fact that

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Important Questions on Gravitation

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The earth's mass is 80 times that of moon and their diameters are 1600 km and 800 km, respectively. If g is the value of acceleration due to gravity on earth, what is its value on moon?
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In the reported figure of earth, the value of acceleration due to gravity is same at point A and C but it is smaller than that of its value at point B (surface of the earth). The value of OA:AB will be x:5. The value of x is

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Consider a planet in some solar system that has a mass double the mass of earth and density equal to the average density of the earth. If the weight of an object on earth is W, the weight of the same object on that planet will be:
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If the radius of earth shrinks by 2% while its mass remains same. The acceleration due to gravity on the earth's surface will approximately
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The value of acceleration due to gravity at a height of 10 km from the surface of earth is x. At what depth inside the earth is the value of the acceleration due to gravity has the same value x?
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The elongation of a wire on the surface of the earth is 10-4 m. The same wire of same dimensions is elongated by 6×10-5 m on another planet. The acceleration due to gravity on the planet will be _____ m s-2. (Take acceleration due to gravity on the surface of earth =10 m s-2)
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Imagine a new planet having the same density as that of the earth but it is 3 times bigger than the earth in size. If the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the earth is g and on the surface of the new planet is g', then
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Two satellites P and Q are moving in different circular orbits around the Earth(radius R). The heights of P and Q from the Earth surface are hP and hQ, respectively, where hP=R3. The accelerations of P and Q due to Earth’s gravity are gP and gQ, respectively. If gPgQ=3625, what is the value of hQ?

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The ratio of accelerations due to gravity g1:g2 on the surfaces of two planets is 5: 2 and the ratio of their respective average densities ρ1:ρ2 is 2: 1 .What is the ratio of respective escape velocities v1:v2 from the surface of the planets?
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A tunnel has been dug through the centre of the earth and a ball is released in it. It will reach the other end of the tunnel after about
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An object is dropped from a height onto the floor. Which one of the following remains uniform as it falls?
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Two planets A and B have the same average density. Their radii RA and RB are such that RA :RB=3:1. If gA and gB are the acceleration due to gravity at the surfaces of the planets, the gA :gB equals
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A planet has double the mass of the earth. Its average density is equal to that of the earth. An object weighing W on earth will weigh on that planet:

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A body weighs 900 gm. wt on the surface of the earth. Its weight on the surface of a planet whose mass is 18th of that of the earth and radius is half that of the earth, is

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The radii of two planets A and B are R and 4R and their densities are ρ and ρ3 respectively. The ratio of acceleration due to gravity at their surfaces gA:gB will be
 
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At what height from the surface of earth the gravitation potential and the value of g are -5.4×10J kg-2 and 6.0 s-2 respectively? Take the radius of earth as 6400 km:
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If the mass of the Sun were ten times smaller and the universal gravitational constant were ten times larger in magnitude, which of the following is not correct?
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The gravitational field strength at the surface of a certain planet is g . Which of the following is the gravitational field strength at the surface of a planet with twice the radius and twice the mass?
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The value of acceleration due to gravity at Earth's surface is  9.8 m s-2 . The altitude above its surface at which the acceleration due to gravity decreases to  4.9 m s-2, is close to: (Radius of earth  =6.4×106 m )
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A ball is launched from the top of Mount Everest which is at an elevation of 9000 m. The ball moves in a circular orbit around the earth. The acceleration due to gravity near the earth's surface is g. The magnitude of the ball's acceleration while in orbit is,