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The document contains 13 multiple choice questions related to gravitational fields, escape velocity, and planetary properties such as density, radius, and acceleration due to gravity. The questions cover topics including how gravitational field and escape velocity change with planetary radius and mass, calculating orbital parameters of satellites, and relating planetary density, radius, and surface gravity.

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Gravitation - Worksheet

The document contains 13 multiple choice questions related to gravitational fields, escape velocity, and planetary properties such as density, radius, and acceleration due to gravity. The questions cover topics including how gravitational field and escape velocity change with planetary radius and mass, calculating orbital parameters of satellites, and relating planetary density, radius, and surface gravity.

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Roll No.

: Time -
Date : MM - 30

1. How the gravitational field at a point inside a solid sphere vary with distance x from its centre, if x 1
< R and x > R (R-radius) ?

2. Draw graph showing the variation of acceleration due to gravity with (a) height above the earth’s 1
surface (b) depth below the earth’s surface.

3. The change in the value of g at a height h above the earth is same as at a depth d below it. If h 2
and d are small as compared to the radius of the earth, what is the ratio (h/d) ?

4. The radius of the earth is reduced by 4%. The mass of the earth remains unchanged. What will 2
be the change in escape velocity ?

5. A high jumper can jump 1.5 m on earth. With the same effort, how high will he be able to jump on 2
a planet whose density is one-third and radius is one-fourth of that of the earth ?

6. If the radius of the earth were increased by a factor of 3, by what factor would its density have to 2
be changed to keep ‘g’ the same ?

7. To what height a mass can go, when sent up with a velocity half of the escape velocity ? 3

8. A body weighs 90 kgf on the surface of earth. How much will it weigh on the surface of a planet 3
whose mass is 1/9 and radius 1/2 that of earth ?

9. An artificial satellite of mass 1000 kg revolves around the earth in circular orbit of radius 6500 4
km. Calculate
(i) Orbital velocity.
(ii) Orbital kinetic energy.
(iii) Gravitational potential energy.
(iv) Total energy in the orbit.
[Mass of the earth = 6 × 1024 kg, G = 6.67 × 10−11 Nm2/kg2]

10. Two masses of 90 kg and 160 kg are at a distance 5 m apart. Compute the magnitude of 4
intensity of the gravitational field at a point distance 3 m from the 90 kg and 4 m from the 160 kg
mass. G = 6.67 × 10−11 Nm2kg−2.

11. Two bodies of masses M1 and M2 are placed at a distance d apart. Show that at the position, 4
where the gravitational field due to them is zero, the potential is given by

12. The escape velocity or earth is Ve. If the mass of a certain planet is 3 times and radius 3 times 1
than that of the earth, then the escape velocity from the planet will be

(a) 3Ve
(b) 6Ve
(c) 3 Ve
(d) Ve

13. The density of a newly discovered planet is twice that of earth. The acceleration due to gravity at 1
the surface of the planet is equal to that at the surface of the earth. If the radius of the earth is
surface of the earth. If the radius of the earth is R, the radius of the planet would be

(a) 2R

(b) 4R

(c) R/4

(d) R/2

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