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Questions on Gravitation, Paper 1

1. A thief stole a box with valuable article of weight 9. If the gravitational force between two objects

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‘W’ and jumped down a wall of height h. Before he were proportional to 1/R (and not as 1/R ) where
0
reach the ground he experienced a load of R is separation
2 between them, then a particle in
circular orbit under such a force would have its
(a) zero (b) W/2 orbital speed
1 v proportional to
(c) W (d) 2W
2 3

2. The acceleration due to gravity g and mean 1 (b) R

density of the earth are related by which of the (a)
1
following relation? Where g is gravitational 3 R
constant and R is radius of the earth (d)
2
(c) R R
10. (a) T R (b) T
Imagine a light planet revolving around R a very
(a) = 4 gR (b) = 4 gR
massive
(c) Tstar in
R a circular(d)
orbit ofTradius
R R with a
3G 3G period of revolution T. If the gravitational force of
3g 3g attraction between the planet and the star is
(c) = (d) =
5
4 GR 4 GR
proportional to R then
3. When the planet comes nearer the sun moves surface of earth is
(a) fast
(a) 6 2 hr (b) 6 hr
( b ) slow
(c) 5 2 hr (d) 10 hr
( c ) constant at every point
(a) (b)
( d ) none of the above
d v d v
(c) (d)
4. Kepler’s second law regarding constancy of arial d d
velocity of a planet is a consequence of the law of
conservation of

( a ) energy

( b ) angular momentum

( c ) linear momentum

( d ) none of these
2 gM 2
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5. The period of geostationary artificial satellite is

(a) 24 hours (b) 6 hours r

(c) 12 hours (d) 48 hours

6. A geostationary satellite is orbiting the earth at a

height of 6R above the surface of the earth, R
being the radius of the earth. The time period of
another satellite at a height of 2.5 R from the
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d1 v 1 d2 v 1
2 2 2 2

3
d2 d1
2 2 2 3 2 2

1 1 2 1
11. The period of a satellite in a circular orbit of
radius R is T. The period of another satellite in 2 2

circular orbit of radius 4R is 2 1

(a) T/4 (b) 8T 13. The period of geostationary artificial satellite of

earth is
(c) 2T (d) T/8
(a) 6 hours (b) 12 hours
12. A planet moves around the sun. At a point A, it
is closest from the Sun at a distance d1 and has (c) 24 hours (d) 365 days
a speed v1. At another point B, when it is
14. If ‘r’ represents the radius of the orbit of a satellite
farthest from the sun at a distance d2, its speed
of mass ‘m’ moving round a planet of mass ‘M’,
will be
the velocity of the satellite is given by
7. The distance of Neptune and Saturn from the sun (a) v = (b) v = GMm
are nearly 10 m and 10 m respectively. r
Assuming that they move in circular orbits, their r
periodic times would be in the ratio of GM GM
(a) 10 (b) 100 (c) v= (d) v=
2
r
(c) 10 10 (d) 1000 15. A missile is launched with a velocity less than the
escape velocity. The sum of its kinetic and
8. A satellite is orbiting close to the surface of the potential energy is
earth, then its speed is
( a ) Positive
(a) 2gR (b) Rg
( b ) Negative
Rg
(c) Rg (d) ( c ) Zero
2 ( d ) may be positive or negative
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16. The escape velocity of projection from the earth is (a) A (b) B
approximately (R th
= 6400 km)
(c) C (d) D

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(a) 7 km/sec (b) 112 km/sec
24. The orbit velocity of an artificial satellite in a
(c) 12.2 km/sec (d) 1.1 km/sec circular orbit just above the earth’s surface is v.
For a satellite orbiting at an altitude of half of the
17. If the earth is 1/4 of its present distance from earth’s radius, the orbital velocity is
the sun, the duration of the year would be
ev 3
( a ) 1/4 of the present year
(a) (b) v
( b ) 1/6 of the present year 2 2
( c ) 1/8 of the present year 2 2
( d ) 1/16 of the present year (c) v (d)
(c) x=
3 (d) x3=
v h
18. The relation between escape velocity and orbit

velocity is 25. If the change in the value of g at the height h

above the surface of the earth is the same as at a
(a) ve = 2v 1 depth x below it, then (both x and h being much
orb (b) ve =
vorb smaller than the radius of the earth)
2 (a) x=h (b) x=2h
(c) ve =
(d) ve = 2 vorb
2vorb

19. There is no atmosphere on the moon because 22. The value of ‘g’ at a particular point is 9.8 m/sec
(a) it is closer ot the earth suppose the earth suddenly shrink uniformly to half
its present size without losing any mass. The value
( b ) it revolves round the earth of ‘g at the same point (assuming that the distance
( c ) it gets light from the sun of the point from the centre of the earth does not
shrink) will become
( d ) the escape velocity of gas molecules is
(a) 9.8 m/sec (b) 4.9 m/sec
less than their root mean square velocity
(a) 10
here (b) 10 (c) 19.6 m/sec (d) 2.45 m/sec
(c) 10 (d) 10
20. If the radius of the earth were to shrink by 1% its 23. The planet mercury is revolving in an elliptical
mass remaining the same, the acceleration due to
2 orbit around the sun as shown in figure. The
gravity on the earth’s surface would kinetic energy of mercury will be greater at
D
( a ) decrease by 2%
C
( b ) remain unchanged
2 2
( c ) increase by 2%
2 2
A Sun B
( d ) will increase by 9.8%
E
21. Fg and Fe represents gravitational and electrostatic
forces respectively, between the two electrons
situated at a distance of 10 m. The ratio Fg/Fe is of
the order of
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Answers to Gravitation, Paper 1

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