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The mass and weight of an object on earth are 5 kg and 49 N respectively. What will be their values on the moon? Assume that the acceleration due to gravity on the moon is 1/6th of that on the earth. - Science and Technology 1

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The mass and weight of an object on earth are 5 kg and 49 N respectively. What will be their values on the moon? Assume that the acceleration due to gravity on the moon is 1/6th of that on the earth.

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उत्तर

Given: Mass on earth (me) = 5 kg, weight on earth (We) = 49 N,

acceleration due to gravity on moon (gm) = `9.8/6` m/s2 = 1.6333 m/s2

To find: Mass (mm), weight (Wm) on moon

Formula: Wm = mmgm

Calculation: The mass of the object is independent of gravity and remains unchanged i.e., 5 kg.

From formula,

Wm = 5 × 1.6333

∴ Wm = 8.1665 N ≈ 8.17 N

On moon, the mass of the object is 5 kg and the weight is 8.17 N.

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पाठ 1: Gravitation - Exercises [पृष्ठ १५]

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 49 m/s. Calculate

  1. the maximum height to which it rises.
  2. the total time it takes to return to the surface of the earth.

A stone is released from the top of a tower of height 19.6 m. Calculate its final velocity just before touching the ground.


State whether the following statement is true or false :
A falling stone also attracts the earth.


Explain what is meant by the equation :
`g= Gxxm/r^2`
where the symbols have their usual meanings.


What do you understand by the term 'acceleration due to gravity of earth' ?


The values of g at six distances A, B, C, D, E and F from the surface of the earth are found to be 3.08 m/s2, 9.23 m/s2, 0.57 m/s2, 7.34 m/s2, 0.30 m/s2 and 1.49 m/s2, respectively.
(a) Arrange these values of g according to the increasing distances from the surface of the earth (keeping the value of g nearest to the surface of the earth first)
(b) If the value of distance F be 10000 km from the surface of the earth, state whether this distance is deep . inside the earth or high up in the sky. Give reason for your answer.


Name the force which pulled the apple off Isaac Newton’s tree.


The value of acceleration due to gravity of earth :


A force of 15 N acts on a body of mass 2 kg. Calculate the acceleration produced.


A force causes an acceleration of 10 m s-2 in a body of mass 500 g. What acceleration will be caused by the same force in a body of mass 5 kg?


A car is moving with a uniform velocity 30 ms-1. It is stopped in 2 s by applying a force of 1500 N through its brakes. Calculate the following values :  The retardation produced in car.


What is the acceleration due to gravity?


In vacuum, all freely falling objects have the same force. Is it true?


The free fall of an object is possible only in _______.


Write scientific reason.

When we drop a feather and a stone at the same time from a height the stone reach the earth faster than a feather.


Write acceleration due to gravity value on the surface of Earth.


The mass of planet ‘X” is four times that of the earth and its radius is double the radius of the earth. The escape velocity of a body from the earth is 11.2 × 103 m/s. Find the escape velocity of a body from the planet 'X’. 


Distinguish between:

Universal gravitational constant - Gravitational acceleration of earth.


Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions.

We know that the force of gravity due to the earth acts on each and every object. When we were holding the stone in our hand, the stone was experiencing this force, but it was balanced by a force that we were applying on it in the opposite direction. As a result, the stone remained at rest. Once we release the stone from our hands, the only force that acts on it is the gravitational force of the earth and the stone falls down under its influence. Whenever an object moves under the influence of the force of gravity alone, it is said to be falling freely. Thus the released stone is in a free fall. In free fall, the initial velocity of the object is zero and goes on increasing due to the acceleration due to the gravity of the earth. During free fall, the frictional force due to air opposes the motion of the object and a buoyant force also acts on the object. Thus, true free fall is possible only in a vacuum.

1) Complete the following statement by choosing the right option.

The stone held in the hand is stable because on it __.

  1. two unbalanced forces are exerted.
  2. only the gravitational force of the earth is exerted.
  3. gravitational force of the earth is not exerted.
  4. two balanced forces are exerted.

2) Why does free fall not happen on the earth?

3) Why does the velocity of the object increase during the free fall?

4) Which type of force exerts on the object during free fall?

5) Why does free fall happen only in a vacuum?


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