Set- A
City Children’s Academy Set- B
III Unit Test 2024-25 City Children’s Academy
Class- XI III Unit Test 2024-25
Time- 40Minutes Physics Marks- 20 Class-XI
Time- 40Minutes Physics Marks- 20
Attempt all questions.
(a) State and explain Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. [3]
GR ρ, where 𝜌 is mean density of earth,
4π Attempt all the questions.
(b) Establish the relation; g= (a) Find expression for binding energy of a satellite. [4]
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(b) How far from Earth’s surface does the value of g decrease to 4 of its
g is acceleration due to gravity, G is universal gravitational constant, R is
value on Earth’s surface, given that the Earth’s radius is 6400 kilometres?
radius of earth [3]
[3]
(c) Define escape velocity and find a relation for it near earth’s surface.[4]
(c) State Newton’s law of gravitation. Hence define universal
gravitational constant. Give the value and dimensions of G. [3]
Answer the following in detail. [10]
(d)Where does a body weigh more – at the surface of the earth or in a
Answer the following questions in detail [10]
mine?
(d) What would be the weight of the body inside the earth if it were a hollow
(e) If the earth is regarded as a hollow sphere , then what is the weight of
sphere?
an object below the surface of the earth?
(e) What is weightlessness?
(f). A particle is to be placed in turn, outside four objects, each of mass m. (f) A person sitting in a satellite of Earth feels weightlessness but a person
(i) a large uniform solid sphere (ii) a large uniform spherical shell standing on Moon has weight though Moon is also a satellite of Earth. Why?
(iii) a small uniform solid sphere (iv) a small uniform shell. In (g) The acceleration due to gravity at the moon’s surface is 1.67 ms-2 . If the
each situation, the distance between the particle and the centre of radius of the moon is 1.74×106m, calculate the mass of the moon. Use the
the object is d. Rank the objects according to the magnitude of the known value of G
gravitational force they exert on the particles, greatest first. (h) Define acceleration due to gravity. Show that the value of ‘g’ decreases with
(g). If earth shrinks to half of its present radius , its mass remaining the altitude or height.
same, the weight of an object on the earth will increase ….. times. Fill in
the blank.
(h) What is the dimensional formula of universal constant of gravitation?
