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Why does the weight of a body vary on moving from poles to equator?

Important Questions on Gravitation

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The weight of a body is 9.8 N, when g=9.8 m s-2 the mass of the body is
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The weight of an object on a planet is 0.25 times of its weight on earth. A pendulum clock that ticks once every second on earth is taken to the planet. In that planet the clock would tick once in every. 
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The ratio of gravitational acceleration on the surface of Earth and Moon is
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The mass of a plant is twice and its radius is three times that of the earth. The weight of a body, which has a mass of 5 kg, on that planet will be

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What do we call the gravitational force between the earth and an object?
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A person can jump up to 5 feet on the surface of the earth. On the surface of the moon, the same person can jump :
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1 kg wt=
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Weight is a scalar quantity.
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If the mass of a body is 5 kg, what is its weight?
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Why is the weight of an object on the moon 16 th its weight on the earth?
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The mass and weight of an object on earth are 5 kg and 49 N respectively. What will be their values on the moon? Assume that the acceleration due to gravity on the moon is 16th of that on the earth.
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Mass of an object is 7 kg. What is its weight?
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Gravitational force on the surface of the moon is only 16 as strong as gravitational force on the earth. What is the weight in newtons of a 10 kg object on the moon and on the earth?
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Define weight of a body.
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If the mass of a body is 5 kg, what is its weight?
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What is the difference between mass and weight of an object? Will the mass and weight of an object on the earth be same as their values on Mars? Why?
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The weight of a body of mass 6.0 kg on moon is 10 N. If a boy of mass 30 kg goes from earth to the moon surface, what will be his mass? 
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There are two kinds of balances-beam balance and spring balance. If both the balances give the same measure of a given object on the surface of the earth, will they give the same measure on the surface of the moon? Explain why.
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Mass and weight have the same units.
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If the value of g suddenly becomes twice its value, it will become two times more difficult to pull a heavy object along the floor. Why?