Physics

Gravitation

Question:

Comment on application of Newton’s third law of motion to gravitation.Illustrate by examples.

Answer:

Refer to Art 3.7,Page 145.
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Gravitation

Q 1.

State Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion. How did Newton guess inverse square law ?

Q 2.

Calculate the force of gravitation between the Earth and the Sun,given that the mass of the Earth = 6x1024 kg and mass of the Sun = 2 x 1030 kg. The average distance between the two is 1.5x1011 m.

Q 3.

Can you calculate density of Earth from Newton’s law of gravitation ?

Q 4.

What do we call the gravitational force between the Earth and an object ?

Q 5.

What is the value of ‘g’ at the centre of Earth ?

Q 6.

What do you mean by acceleration due to gravity ?

Q 7.

Why do sewing needles and all pins have a sharp pointed tip?

Q 8.

Fill in the blanks :
Weight of an object is the product of ______ and ________.

Q 9.

At what height above the surface of the earth, the value of 'g' becomes 64% of its value at the surface of the earth. Take radius of the earth = 6400 km.

Q 10.

A particle is dropped from a tower 180 m high.How long does it take to reach the ground ? What is the velocity when it touches the ground ? Take g = 10 m/s2

Q 11.

Suppose a planet exists whose mass and radius both,are half those of Earth.Calculate the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of this planet.

Q 12.

Fill in the blanks :
Every object in the universe ________ other bodies.

Q 13.

Two stones A and B are dropped from a multistoried building. A is dropped from 100 m and after some time B is dropped from 50 m height. Both of them reach the earth at the same time. Will they have equal velocity while reaching the ground ? Calculate and find out the answer (take g =10 m/s2).

Q 14.

Calculate the force of gravitation between the earth and the Sun, given that the mass of the earth = 6 × 1024 kg and of the Sun = 2 × 1030 kg. The average distance between the two is 1.5 × 1011 m.

Q 15.

A boy on a clif£ 49 m high drops a stone.One second later,he throws a second stone after the first.They both hit the ground at the same time. With what speed did he throw the second stone ?

Q 16.

In Fig.,the line that joins a planet to the sun sweeps out areas A1A2,A3in time intervals 6 weeks,3 weeks and 2 weeks respectively.How are A1 A2,A3 realted ?

Q 17.

Is weight a scalar quantity?

Q 18.

Fill in the blanks :
The gravitational force between the earth and the object is generally called ____________.

Q 19.

Calculate the value of acceleration due to gravity on Moon. Given mass of Moon = 7.4x1022 kg, radius of Moon = 1740 km

Q 20.

Fill in the blanks :
Heliocentric model was proposed by ______.

Q 21.

Define weight? How it is related to mass?

Q 22.

Define thrust.

Q 23.

A stone falling towards Earth also attracts the Earth with the same force.Is it true ?

Q 24.

Define g and G.Establish relation between them.

Q 25.

Mass of an object is 10 kg. What is its weight on the Earth? (g = 9.8 m/s2.)

Q 26.

Write the standard equations of motion when an object is thrown upwards with some initial velocity?

Q 27.

A stone is allowed to fall from the top of a tower 100 m high and at the same time another stone is projected vertically upwards from the ground with a velocity of 25 m/s. Calculate when and where the two stones will meet.

Q 28.

Is mass a scalar quantity?

Q 29.

Define gravity.

Q 30.

Fill in the blanks :
The SI unit of mass is ______.

Q 31.

What are Plimsoll Lines?

Q 32.

The volume of 50 g of a substance is 20 cm3. If the density of water is 1 g cm-3, will the substance float or sink?

Q 33.

As you climb up a mountain, your ears “pop” because of the changes in atmospheric pressure. In which direction, outward or inward, does your eardrum move when you climb up?

Q 34.

The mass of Earth is 6x1024 kg and that of moon is 7.4x1022 kg. If the distance between the Earth and the Moon is 3.84x105 km, calculate the force exerted by Earth on the Moon. Given G = 6.7x10-11 Nm2/kg2.

Q 35.

What is the gravitational acceleration of a spaceship at a distance equal to two Earth’s radius from the centre of the Earth ?

Q 36.

A ball is thrown up with a speed of 15 m/s.How high will it go before it begins to fall ? Take g= 9.8 m/s2

Q 37.

The distance between two objects is doubled. What happens to gravitational force between them

Q 38.

Who gave three laws of planetary motion ?

Q 39.

Can a body have weight but no mass ?

Q 40.

How are gravitation and gravity related ?

Q 41.

What is the relation between g and G ?

Q 42.

State and explain universal law of gravitation given by Newton.What is the importance of this law

Q 43.

Fill in the blanks :
Geocentric model i.e. the Earth is the orbital centre of all celestial bodies was proposed by _____.

Q 44.

Fill in the blanks :
According to the Heliocentric theory, the _____ is at centre and _______ move around it.

Q 45.

Fill in the blanks :
Kepler's Law of ______ states that a line that connects a planet to the Sun sweeps out equal ______ in the plane of the planet's orbit in _____time intervals.

Q 46.

Fill in the blanks :
The value of Universal Gravitation constant (G) is ________ Nm2kgs-2.

Q 47.

Fill in the blanks :
Acceleration due to gravity (g) is _______ (dependent/independent) of mass.

Q 48.

Fill in the blanks :
The value of g on the earth's surface is ______.

Q 49.

What are the Kepler Laws that govern the motion of the planets?

Q 50.

How is gravitational force of attraction between two bodies affected if(i) Mass of both bodies is doubled.(ii) Distance between them is halved.