EASY
JEE Advanced
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

Two spheres of masses 64kg and 289kg are placed a distance 10m apart. Find the position of a point on the line joining the centres of the two spheres, where the gravitational field is zero.

Important Questions on Gravitation

EASY
JEE Advanced
IMPORTANT

If the radius of Earth is 6000km, what will be the weight of 120kg body if taken to a height of 2000km above sea level (i.e., surface of the Earth)?

EASY
JEE Advanced
IMPORTANT
Where will you weigh more and why:
2km above the surface of earth or
2km helow the surface of earth?
MEDIUM
JEE Advanced
IMPORTANT
Find the maximum change in reading of a spring balance if a block of mass m is brought from pole to equator.
EASY
JEE Advanced
IMPORTANT
Find the height above the earth's surface, where the value of acceleration due to gravity is 3/4th the value on the surface, (take the radius of earth as R).
EASY
JEE Advanced
IMPORTANT
Find the percentage change in the acceleration due to gravity when a small body is taken to an altitude R100.
EASY
JEE Advanced
IMPORTANT
The value of 'g' at a depth d, is two-third the value that on the earth's surface. Find d in terms of radius of earth R.
MEDIUM
JEE Advanced
IMPORTANT
The distance between earth and moon is 3.8×105km and the mass of earth is 81 times the mass of the moon. Find the position of a point on the line joining the centres of earth and moon, where the gravitational field is zero. What would be the value of gravitational field there due to the earth and moon separately?
Given, radius of the earth =6.4×106m.
EASY
JEE Advanced
IMPORTANT
A uniform solid sphere of mass M and radius a is surrounded symmetrically by a uniform thin spherical shell of equal mass and radius 2a. Find the gravitational field at a distance
3a/2 from the centre