Mass and Weight

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Mass and Weight: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Weightlessness, Weight of an Object on the Moon, Apparent Weight, Mass of an Object, Weight of an Object, Application of Newton’s Law of Gravitation and, Apparent Weight and Moving Lift

Important Questions on Mass and Weight

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Mass of the star can be calculated using the law of gravitation.

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Dimensions of the heavenly bodies can be measured using the gravitation law.

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Newton's law of gravitation helps to predict the path of the astronomical bodies.

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Newton's law of gravitation helps to explain germination of roots is due to the property of geotropism which is the property of a root responding to the gravity.

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List the application of newton's law of gravitation.

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What is apparent weight, explain relation between apparent weight and actual weight when lift is falling freely.

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What is apparent weight, explain relation between apparent weight and actual weight when lift is at rest.

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What is apparent weight, explain relation between apparent weight and actual weight when lift is moving downward with acceleration 'a'.

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What is apparent weight, explain relation between apparent weight and actual weight when lift is moving upward with acceleration 'a'.

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Define apparent weight.

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If the weight of a body on earth is 6 N, then its weight be on the moon is 36 N.

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The weight of same body is _____ at earth and at the moon.

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Mass of an object can be measured with the help of a _____.

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The weight of an object on the moon is _____th of the weight on the earth.

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Examples for scalar quantity(s) are

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Examples for vector quantity is

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Choose the statements which are correctly related to weight.

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Choose the Statements which are related to Mass.

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A spring balance is used to determine the mass of a solid iron cube whose side is 3cm. Supposing the iron has a density of approx 8.5g/cm3, then the solid weight would be best determined by using the spring balance of range:

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Archimedes' Principle is used in