Avitation
Avitation
Gravitation
• Can you recall :- Core Concept :-
• Distance • Gravitation
• Displacement • Circular motion
• Acceleration • Centripetal force
• Velocity • Kepler’s laws
• Speed • Newton’s universal law of gravitation
• Motion • Acceleration due to the gravitational
• Force force of the Earth
• Newton’s laws of motion
Definations
Distance :- Is the length of the actual path travelled by an object in motion while going
from one point to another.
Displacement :- Is the minimum distance between the starting and finishing points.
Sun (Focus)
c
X
Focus
Semi-major axis (a)
67,000 mi/hr
Aphelion Perihelion
m1 m2
F d F
Equator(9.78 m/s2)
B. Change with height :-
Radius of earth 6400 km.
6410km
10km (R+h)
R
C. Change with depth
M g=GM/ r2
m
g= Gm/ r2
Mass and Weight
• Mass : • Weight :
Mass is the amount of matter The weight of an object is
present in the object. defined as the force with which
The SI unit of mass is kg. the earth attracts the object.
The force (F) on an object of
Mass is a scalar quantity. mass m on the surface of the
earth can be written using
Its value is same everywhere. equation.
Its value does not change even Weight, W = F = m g
when we go to another planet.
g= Gm/ r2
• Weight being a force, its SI unit is Newton.
The weight, being a force, is a vector quantity and its direction is towards the
centre of the earth.
As the value of g is not same everywhere, the weight of an object changes
from place to place, though its mass is constant everywhere.
Escape velocity
• We have seen than when a ball is thrown upwards, its velocity decreases because of the
gravitation of the earth.
• The velocity becomes zero after reaching a certain height and after that the ball starts
falling down. Its maximum height depends on its initial velocity.
• According to Newton’s third equation of motion is
• v2=u2+2as v = the final velocity of the ball = 0
a=-g
• 0= u2+2(-g)s
• s = – u2/ 2g maximum height of the ball
• Thus, higher the initial velocity u, the larger is the height reached by the
ball