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Class 9 - Practice Questions On Gravitation

This document provides 20 practice questions on the topic of gravitation. The questions cover concepts such as calculating the height of a building based on the time an object takes to fall, determining weight and mass on different planets or moons, calculating velocities and heights of objects moving under gravity, and explaining why objects with different properties fall at different rates through air resistance. The questions also address how changing mass or distance between objects impacts the gravitational force between them.

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Class 9 - Practice Questions On Gravitation

This document provides 20 practice questions on the topic of gravitation. The questions cover concepts such as calculating the height of a building based on the time an object takes to fall, determining weight and mass on different planets or moons, calculating velocities and heights of objects moving under gravity, and explaining why objects with different properties fall at different rates through air resistance. The questions also address how changing mass or distance between objects impacts the gravitational force between them.

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Practice Questions on Gravitation (take g = 9.

8m/s2)

1) A ball is dropped from the roof of a building. It takes 10s to reach the ground.
Find the height of the building. (Ans = 490m)
2) Find the weight of a 80kg man on the surface of the moon. What should be his
mass on the earth and on the moon? (Ans = 130.4N, 80kg, 80kg)
3) If the distance between two objects is increased four times, then by how many
times will the mass of one of the objects be changed to maintain the same
gravitational force? (Ans = mass of one object should be increased 16 times)
4) Two astronauts on the moon cannot talk to each other. State the reason.
5) What is the distance covered by a freely falling object during its first 3s of its
motion? (Ans = 45m)
6) A body is thrown up with a velocity of 40m/s. How long does it take to reach the
highest point? After how much time will the body come back to the ground?
(Ans= 4s, 8s)
7) A toy car falls to the ground in 0.4s. Calculate its speed before striking the
ground. (Ans= 4m/s)
8) A stone is dropped from a height of 10 m on an unknown planet having g =
20m/s2. Calculate the speed of the stone when it hits the surface of the planet.
Also calculate the time it takes to fall through this height. (Ans = 20m/s, 1s)
9) A boy throws a ball vertically upwards and catches it back in 10 seconds.
Calculate the velocity with which it was thrown up and the maximum height
attained by the ball. (Ans = 50m/s, 125m)
10)A stone is dropped from the edge of a roof. How long does it take to fall 4.9m ?
How fast does it move at the end of that fall? What will be its acceleration after 1s
and after 2s? (Ans = 1s, 9.8m/s, 9.8m/s2)
11) A stone is allowed to fall from the top of a tower 100m high and at the same time
another stone is projected vertically upwards from the ground with the velocity of
25m/s. Calculate when and where the two stones will meet. (Ans = 4s, 20m).
12)A person's weight is 110.84N on the moon's surface whose acceleration due to
gravity is one-sixth of that of Earth. If the value of g on earth is 9.8m/s2, then
calculate the (a) g on moon, (b) mass of person on the moon, (c) weight of
person on the Earth. (Ans= 1.63m/s, 68kg, 666.6N)
13) Why will a sheet of paper fall slower than one that is crumpled into a ball?
14)A coin and a feather are dropped from the top of the same building
simultaneously. Then why does the coin and feather take different times to reach
the earth's surface, although both of them experience the same acceleration due
to gravity?
15)If the moon attracts the earth then why does the Earth not move towards the
moon?
16)A ball thrown up vertically returns to the thrower after 6 s. Find (a) the velocity
with which it was thrown up, (b) the maximum height it reaches and (c)the
position after 4 seconds. (Ans = 30m/s, 45m, 39.2m from the ground).
17)A body weighs 30 kg on the surface of the Earth. Find its weight on a planet
whose mass is one-ninth of the mass of the earth and radius is half of the earth.
(Ans = 130.6N)
18)What happens to the force between two objects if (a) the mass of one object is
doubled? (b) the distance between the objects is tripled? (c) the masses of both
objects are doubled?
19)The gravitational force between two objects is 100N. How should the distance
between the objects be changed so that the force between them becomes 50N?
20)The earth is at the earth is acted upon by the gravitation of the Sun, even though
it does not fall into the Sun. Why?

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