INDIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL CBSE

NEAR CHALLAKERE TOLLGATE NH - 4 CHITRADURGA

GRAVITATION NOTES
Class 09 - Science
Time Allowed: 50 minutes Maximum Marks: 79

1. Mention any five phenomena that the universal law of gravitation was able to explain. [2]
2. What is the source of the centripetal force that a planet requires revolving around the Sun? On what factors does [2]
that force depend?
3. What do you mean by acceleration due to gravity? [2]
4. A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 49 ms-1. Calculate:i) the maximum height to which it [2]

rises.ii) the total time it takes to return to the surface of the earth.
5. Suggest a method for calculating the mass of the moon. [2]
6. A ball is thrown up with a speed of 0.5 m/s. [2]
i. How high will it go before it begins to fall?
ii. How long will it take to reach that height?
7. A stone is thrown vertically upward with an initial velocity of 40 m/s. Taking g = 10m/s
2
, find the maximum [2]
height reached by the stone. What is the net displacement and the total distance covered by the stone?
8. How does the force of attraction between the two bodies depend upon their masses and distance between them? [2]
A student thought that two bricks tied together would fall faster than a single one under the action of gravity. Do
you agree with his hypothesis or not? Comment.
9. What is the magnitude of the gravitational force between the earth and a 1 kg object on its surface? (Mass of the [2]

earth is 6 × 1024 kg and radius of the earth is 6.4 × 106 m.)

10. The earth and the moon are attracted to each other by gravitational force. Does the earth attract the moon with a [2]
force that is greater or smaller or the same as the force with which the moon attracts the earth? Why?
11. Why is the weight of an object on the moon th its weight on the earth? [2]
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12. Why is it difficult to hold a school bag having a strap made of a thin and strong string? [2]
13. A ball is thrown vertically upwards. The speed of the ball was 10m/s when it had reached one half of its [3]
maximum height.

i. How high does the ball rise?Take g= 10ms2

ii. Find the velocity and acceleration 1s after it is thrown.

14. What is the up thrust experienced by a balloon of volume 120m3 filled with hydrogen.( Given.The density of air [3]

is 1.140 Kg/m3 and density of hydrogen is 0.081Kg/m3) at room temperature. What is the maximum weight this
balloon can lift?
15. A ball thrown up vertically returns to the tower after 6 s. Find [3]
i. the velocity of the ball with which it was thrown up,
ii. the maximum height it reaches, and
iii. the position of the ball after 4 s.

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16. The mass of the mars is 6.39 × 1023 kg and that of the jupiter is 1.89 × 1027 kg. If the distance between mars [3]

and jupiter is 749 × 103 m. Calculate the force exerted by the jupiter on the mars. (G = 6.7 × 10-11 Nm2 kg-2)
17. i. According to universal law of gravitation, every object in this universe attracts every other object. Explain, [3]
why then a table and a chair lying in the same room do not collide with each other?
ii. An object is thrown vertically upwards to a height of 12 m. Calculate its
a. velocity with which it was thrown upwards.
b. time taken by the object to reach a height of 12 m.
18. A stone is dropped from the edge of a roof. [5]
i. How long does it take to fall 4.9 m?
ii. How fast does it move at the end of that fall?
iii. How fast does it move at the end of 7.9 m?
iv. What is its acceleration after 1s and after 2 s?
19. From a cliff of 49 m high, a man drops a stone. One second later, he throws another stone. They both hit the [5]
ground at the same time. Find out the speed with which he threw the second stone.
20. A block of wood is kept on a tabletop. The mass of the wooden block is 5 kg and its dimensions are 40 cm × 20 [5]
cm × 10 cm. Find the pressure exerted by the wooden block on the table top if it is made to lie on the table top
with its sides of dimensions

i. 20 cm × 10 cm and
ii. 40 cm × 20 cm.
21. The weight of any person on the moon is about 1/6 times that on the earth. He can lift a mass of 15 kg on the [5]
earth. What will be the maximum mass, which can be lifted by the same force applied by the person on the
moon?
22. A stone is allowed to fall from the top of a tower 100 m high and at the same time another stone is projected [5]

vertically upwards from the ground with a velocity of 25 ms-1. Calculate when and where the two stones will
meet.
23. i. Suppose the mass of the earth somehow increases by 10% without any change in its size. What would [5]
happen to your weight?
ii. Suppose the radius of the earth becomes twice of its present radius without any change in its mass. What will
happen to your weight?
24. A stone is dropped from a 100 m high tower. How long does it take to fall? [5]
a. the first 50 m and
b. the second 50 m.
25. What are the differences between the mass of the object and its weight? [5]

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