This document is a test paper for Chapter 8 on Gravitation, containing multiple-choice questions and problems related to gravitational concepts. It includes questions on orbital speed, escape velocity, gravitational forces, and Kepler's laws, among others. The paper is structured to assess understanding of gravitational principles through calculations and theoretical questions.
This document is a test paper for Chapter 8 on Gravitation, containing multiple-choice questions and problems related to gravitational concepts. It includes questions on orbital speed, escape velocity, gravitational forces, and Kepler's laws, among others. The paper is structured to assess understanding of gravitational principles through calculations and theoretical questions.
This document is a test paper for Chapter 8 on Gravitation, containing multiple-choice questions and problems related to gravitational concepts. It includes questions on orbital speed, escape velocity, gravitational forces, and Kepler's laws, among others. The paper is structured to assess understanding of gravitational principles through calculations and theoretical questions.
This document is a test paper for Chapter 8 on Gravitation, containing multiple-choice questions and problems related to gravitational concepts. It includes questions on orbital speed, escape velocity, gravitational forces, and Kepler's laws, among others. The paper is structured to assess understanding of gravitational principles through calculations and theoretical questions.
1. Suppose there existed a planet that went around the sun twice as fast as the earth. What would be its orbital size as compared to that of the earth? 1
a. Larger by a factor of 1.23
b. Smaller by a factor of 0.5 c. Larger by a factor of 1.11 d. Smaller by a factor of 0.63
2. The escape speed of a projectile on the earth’s surface is 11.2 km sec-1. A body is projected out with thrice this speed. What is the speed of the body far away from the earth? Ignore the presence of the sun and other planets. 1
a. 29.7 km/s b. 31.6 km/s c. 28.7 km/s d. 32.7 km/s
3. Deimos, a moon of Mars, is about 12 km in diameter with mass 2.0 kg.
Suppose you are stranded alone on Deimos and want to play a one-person game of baseball. You would be the pitcher, and you would be the batter! With what speed would you have to throw a baseball so that it would go into a circular orbit just above the surface and return to you so you could hit it? 1
a. 4.7 m/s b. 5.1 m/s c. 4.3 m/s d. 4.9 m/s
4. Determine the kinetic energy a 5 000-kg spacecraft must have in order to escape the Earth’s gravitational field. Mass of the earth = 6.0 kg; radius of the earth = 6.4
m; G = 6.67 N m2 kg-2 1
1/9 a. 3.14 J b. 3.04 J c. 3.34 J d. 3.53 J
5. According to Kepler’s Law of periods, The ___________ of the time period of revolution of a planet is proportional to the cube of the ___________ of the ellipse traced out by the planet 1
a. square, semi-minor axis
b. square, semi-major axis c. cube, semi-major axis d. cube, semi-major axis
6. Why a tennis ball bounces higher on hills than on plains? 1
7. The distance of Pluto from the Sun is 40 times the distance of earth if the masses of earth and Pluto be equal, what will be the ratio of gravitational forces of sun on these planets? 1
8. Can we determine the mass of a satellite by measuring its time period? 1
9. If T be the period of a satellite revolving just above the surface of a planet, whose
average density is , show that T2 is a universal constant. 2
10. The asteroid Pallas has an orbital period of 4.62 yr. Find the semi-major axis of its
orbit. Given, G =6.67 10-11 Nm kg-2, mass of the sun = 1.99 1030 kg and 1 yr = 3.156
107 s. 2
11. Show that for a two-particle system .2
12. Two stationary particles of masses M1 and M2 are a distance d part. A third particle
lying on the line joining the particles experiences no resultant gravitational force. What is the distance of this particle from M1? 3
13. Three equal masses of M kg each are fixed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle
2/9 ABC. 3 [Take AO = BO = CO = 1 m]
i. What is the force acting on a mass 2M placed at the centroid of the triangle? ii. What is the force if the mass at the centroid is doubled?
14. Assuming the earth to be a sphere of uniform mass density, how much would body weigh halfway down to the centre of the earth if it weighted 250 N on the surface? 3
15. Two heavy spheres each of mass 100 kg and radius 0.10 m are placed 1.0 m apart on a horizontal table. What is the gravitational force on a sphere of mass m placed at midpoint of the line joining spheres? What is the potential at the mid-point of the line joining the centers of the spheres? Is an object placed at that point in equilibrium? If so, is the equilibrium stable or unstable? 5
