CHAPTER-8 : GRAVITATION NUMERICAL

1. A man can jump 2 m high on the Earth. Up to what height he can jump on a planet
whose density is one-quarter that of Earth and radius is one-third of the Earth’s
surface? [24 m]
2. A body weighs 54 kgf on the surface of Earth. How much will it weigh on the surface
of mars whose mass is 1/9 times and radius is ½ that of earth? [24 kgf]
3. If the radius of Earth were increased by a factor of 5, by what factor would its density
have to be changed to keep the value of acceleration due to gravity the same? [⅕]
4. At what height from the surface of earth will the value of ‘g’ become 40% of the value
on the surface of earth? [3.72 X 106 m]
5. Find the percentage decrease in weight of the body when taken to a height of 16 km
above the surface of Earth. [0.5 %]
6. What is the percentage decrease in weight of the body when taken 64 km below the
surface of Earth. [1%]
7. How much below the surface of earth does the acceleration due to gravity become
70 % of its value on the surface of earth? [ 1.92 X 106 m]
8. Find the work done to bring 4 particles each of mass 200 gm from a large distance to
the vertices of a square of side 20 cm.
9. A remote sensing satellite of Earth is in a circular orbit at a height of 400 km above
the surface of Earth. What is the (i) orbital speed (ii) period of revolution of the
satellite?
10. A black hole is a body from whose surface nothing can escape. What is the condition
for a uniform spherical body of mass M to be a black hole? What should be the
radius of such a black hole if mass is nine times the mass of earth?
11. Two bodies of masses 100 kg and 10000 kg are at a distance 1 m apart. At which
point on the line joining them will the resultant gravitational field intensity be zero?
What is gravitational potential at that point? [ 1/11 m, - 8 X 10-7 J/kg]
NCERT
12. A rocket is fired from the earth towards the sun. At what point on its path is the
gravitational force on the rocket zero? [2.59 X 108 m]
13. Assuming the earth to be a sphere of uniform mass density, how much would a body
weigh half way down to the centre of the earth if it weighed 250 N on the surface of
earth? [ 125 N]
14. A rocket is fired vertically with a speed of 5 km/s from the earth’s surface. How far
from the earth does the rocket go before returning to earth? [1.6 X 106 m]
15. The escape velocity of a projectile on the earth’s surface is 11.2 km/s. A body is
projected out with thrice this speed. What is the speed of the body far away from the
earth? [31.68 km/s]
16. A satellite orbits the earth at a height of 400 km above the surface. How much energy
must be expended to rocket the satellite out of earth’s gravitational influence? [5.89 X
109 J]