
What is the force of attraction between a hollow spherical shell of uniform density and a point mass located inside the shell?
Important Questions on Gravitation






Six objects are placed at the vertices of regular hexagon. The geometric centre of the hexagon is at the origin with objects and on the -axis (see figure). The mass of the th object is where is an integer, is constant with dimension of mass and is the angular position of the th vertex measured from the positive -axis in the counter-clockwise sense. If the net gravitational force on body at the centroid vanishes, the value of is







Four identical particles of mass are located at the corners of a square of side . What should be their speed if each of them revolves under the influence of other’s gravitational field in a circular orbit circumscribing the square?

A person whose mass is travels from Earth to Mars in a spaceship. Neglect all other objects in sky and take acceleration due to gravity on the
surface of the Earth and Mars as and , respectively. Identify from the below figures, the curve that fits best for the weight of the passenger as a function of time.

Four particles each of mass move along a circle of radius under the action of their mutual gravitational attraction as shown in figure. The speed of each particle is :



The force between a hollow sphere and a point mass inside it, as shown in figure is :


