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GRAVITATION GRADE 9
LEVEL I
1. What do you mean by free fall?
2. What is the value of gravitational constant G on the surface of
moon?
3. What is acceleration due to gravity?
LEVEL II
4. Mention any four phenomena that the universal law of
gravitation was able to explain.
5. At what place on the Earth’s surface is the weight of a body is:
a) minimum
b) Maximum
6. Why does a body reach the ground quicker at poles than at
the equator when dropped from the same height?
LEVEL III
7. An object weighs 294N on the earth.
a. What would be its mass on the moon?
b. What is acceleration due to gravity on the moon?
8. A body weighs 490 N on a planet whose acceleration due to
gravity is half of that of the earth. Calculate (a) mass of the
body and (b) the weight of the stone on the earth. (take g=9.8
m/s2)
9. Calculate the gravitational force between two bodies A and B
having mass 50 kg each and situated at a distance of 1 m from
each other.
10. What happens to the force between two objects, if the
distance between the objects and the masses of both the
objects are doubled.