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Date : MM :29

Give two characteristics of gravitational force. 1

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2 What are the factors affecting the value of G ? 1

3 An artificial satellite is at a height of 36,500 km above earth’s surface. What is the work done by earth’s gravitational force in
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keeping it in its orbit ?

4 Give the S.I. units of ‘g’ and ‘G’. 1

5 Define gravitational potential at a point. 1

6 Planet Mars has two moons– phobos and deimos. Phobos has a period of 7 hours 39 minutes and orbital radius of 9.4 × 10 3
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km. Calculate the mass of Mars. (G = 6.67 × 10 –11 Nm2 kg–2)

7 If suddenly the gravitational force of attraction between the earth and a satellite revolving around it becomes zero, what will
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happen to the satellite ?

8 What is escape velocity. Derive an expression for the same. 2

9 Define gravitational field strength. What is the field at a point distance r from a mass M ? 2

10 While approaching a planet circling a distant star, a space traveller determines the planet's radius to be half that of the earth. 2
After landing on the surface, he finds the acceleration due to gravity to be twice that on the surface of the earth. Find the ratio
 of the mass of the planet to that of the earth.

11 State Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and deduce Newton’s Law of gravitation from them. 2

12 The kinetic energy associated with a satellite is E. What is the total energy associated ? 3