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WORKSHEET ASSIGNED SUBMISSION

CLASS: IX FOUNTATION TEST MATERIAL 29/11/2024 -

(GRAVITATION)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ASSIGNED WORK:

Bring a physical copy of the work sheet to the class and Solve the given foundation material
worksheet in class work.

1. A solid weighs 200 gf in air, 160 gf in water and 170 gf in a liquid. Calculate the relative density of
the solid and that of the liquid?
2. Define thrust. A force of 150N acts on the surface of an area of 15cm2. Calculate thrust and
pressure?
3. Relative density of gold is 19.3. The density of water is 1000kg/m3. Find the density of gold in SI
unit in g/cc?
4. The volume of a 350g sealed tin is 200 cubic.cm. Find the density of the tin in g/cc. Also find the
density in SI unit.
5. Relative density of silver is 10.8? What is the density of silver in SI unit? Given The density of water
is 1000kg/m3.
6. A force of 250N acts on the surface of an area of 15cm2. Calculate thrust and pressure?
7. A force of 400N acts on a surface of area 25cm2. Calculate thrust and pressure? Calculate the
changed pressure if the force now is made to 600N?
8. Define relative density. Relative density of mercury is 13.6. The density of water is 1000 kg/m 3.
What is the density of mercury in SI unit?
9. You are provided with a hollow iron ball of volume 20cm3, mass of 15g and a solid iron ball of mass
20g. Both are placed on the surface of water contained in a large tub. What will float? Give reason
for your answer? Given density of iron= 8 g/cc
10. The dining has dimensions of 50m×15m×3.5m. Calculate the mass of air in the hall? (Density of air=
1.30kg/m3)?
11. Mass of body 'A' is equal to mass of body 'B'. If the density of body 'A' is greater than the density of
body 'B', which is easier to lift through air?

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12. A force of 100N acts on a surface of area 25m2? Calculate thrust and pressure. Calculate the
changed pressure if the force now is reduced to 25N?
13. Two objects of masses m1m1 and m2m2 having the same size are dropped simultaneously from
heights h1h1 and h2h2 respectively. Find out the ratio of time they would take in reaching the
ground. Will this ratio remain the same if
(i) one of the objects is hollow and the other one is solid
(ii) both of them are hollow, size remaining the same in each case. Give the reason?
14. A piece of iron weighs 44.5gf in air, 39.5 gf in water and 40.3 gf in oil. Find:
a. the relative density of iron.
b. the density of oil in SI unit. What assumption have you made in your calculation?
15. A solid weighs 50 gf in air (where gf is gram force) and 44 gf when completely immersed in water.
Calculate: a. the upthrust b. the volume of the solid c. the relative density of the solid. Given
Density of water=1000kg/m3
16. An ball is thrown vertically upwards and rises to a height of 10 m.
Calculate (i) the velocity with which the object was thrown upwards
(ii) the time taken by the object to reach the highest point.?
17. A block of wood of mass 10kg and dimensions 40cm×25cm×10cm is placed on a tabletop. Find the
pressure exerted if the block lies on the tabletop with sides of dimension: a.10cm×25cm
b.40cm×10cm
18. Find the ratio of the pressure exerted by a block of 400N when placed on a tabletop along its two
different sides with dimensions 20cm×10cm and 10cm×15cm.
19. If two forces in the ratio 5:7 act on two areas in the ratio 4:5, Find the ratio of pressure exerted?
20. The mass of the earth is 6×1024kg and that of the moon is 7.4×1022kg. If the distance between the
earth and the moon is 3.84×105km3.84×105km, calculate the force exerted by the earth on the
moon. G=6.7×10−11Nm2 kg-2?
21. Acceleration due to gravity at Height H above earth surface is half of the value of Acceleration due
to gravity at the surface. What is the value H in terms of R where R is radius of Earth
22. A ball is dropped from a height of 20 m. A second ball is thrown downwards from the same height
after one second with initial velocity u. if both the balls reach the ground at the same time,
calculate the initial velocity of the second ball. (Take g=10 ms-2)
23. What happens to the gravitational force between two objects if:
(i)The mass of one object is doubled? (ii)The distance between the objects is doubled?
(iii)The masses of both the objects are doubled? (iv)The distance between them is halved?
(v)Mass of one of the objects is halved? (vi)the distance between them is reduced to 1/4th
24. Find the gravitational force between the sun and the earth. The mass of the sun is 2.0×1030 kg, and
the mass of the earth is 6.0×1024 kg. the distance between the sun and the earth is 1.5 x 1011 m.
(G=6.67× 10−11 Nm2 kg-2).
25. A ball thrown vertically up returns to the thrower after 6 s. find:
(i) The velocity with which it was thrown up. (ii) The maximum height it reaches.
(iii) Its position after 4 s.
26. At what height above the earth’s surface would the value of acceleration due to gravity be half of
what is on the surface? Calculate.
27. Communication satellites move in orbits of radius 44,400 km around the earth. Find the
acceleration of such a satellite if the only force acting on it is that due to the earth. Mass of the
earth = 6× 1024 kg. (G = 6.67× 10−11 Nm2 kg-2).
28. Find the weight of an object at the height 6400 km above the earth’s surface. The weight of the
object at the surface of the earth is 20 N and the radius of the earth is 6400 km.
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29. A firecracker is fired and it rises to a height of 1000 m. find the
(i) velocity by which it was released.
(ii) time taken by it to reach the highest point (take g=10 ms-2 )
30. A car falls off a ledge and drops to the ground in 0.5 s. let g=10 ms-2 .
(i) What is its speed on striking the ground?
(ii) What is its average speed during the 0.5 s?
(iii) How high is the edge from the ground?
31. The value of 'g' on earth’s surface is 9.8 m/s2. Suppose the earth suddenly shrinks to one – third of
its present size without losing any mass. What is the value of g on the surface of shrinked earth?
32. Two objects of different masses falling freely near the surface of moon would
(a) have same velocities at any instant (b) have different accelerations
(c) experience forces of same magnitude (d) undergo a change in their inertia
33. The value of acceleration due to gravity
(a) is same on equator and pole? (b) is least on poles
(c) is least on equator (d) increases from pole to equator
34. The gravitational force between two objects is F. If masses of both objects are halved without
changing distance between them, then the
gravitational force would become
(a) F/4 (b) F/2 (c) F (d) 2 F
35. A boy is whirling a stone tied with a string in an horizontal circular path. If the string breaks, the
stone
(a) will continue to move in the circular path
(b) will move along a straight line towards the centre of the circular path
(c) will move along a straight line tangential to the circular path
(d) will move along a straight line perpendicular to the circular path away from the boy.
36. An object is put one by one in three liquids having different densities. The object floats 12 3 with
1/9,2/11 and 3/7 parts of their volumes outside the liquid surface in liquids of densities d1r d2 and
d3 respectively. Which of the following statement is correct?
(a) d1 > d2 > d3 (b) d1>d2< d3 (c) d1<d2>d3 (d) d1<d2<d3
37. In the relation F=GM m/d2, the quantity G
(a) depends on the value of g at the place of observation
(b) is used only when the earth is one of the two masses
(c) is greatest at the surface of the earth
(d) is universal constant of nature
38. Law of gravitation gives the gravitational force between
(a) the earth and a point mass only (b) the earth and sun only
(c) any two bodies having some mass (d) two charged bodies only
39. The value of quantity G in the law of gravitation
(a) depends on mass of earth only (b) depends on radius of earth only
(c) depends on both mass and radius of earth
(d) is independent of mass and radius of the earth
40. Two particles are placed at some distance. If the mass of each of the two particles is doubled,
keeping the distance between them unchanged, the value of gravitational force between them will
be
(a) 1/4 times (b) 4 times (c) 1/2 times (d) unchanged
41. The atmosphere is held to the earth by
(a) gravity (b) wind (c) clouds (d) earth’s magnetic field.
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42. The force of attraction between two unit point masses separated by a unit distance is called (a)
gravitational potential (b) acceleration due to gravity
(c) gravitational field (d) universal gravitational constant
43. The weight of an object at the centre of the earth of radius R is
(a) zero (b) infinite (c) R times the weight at the surface of the earth
(d) 1/R2 times the weight at surface of the earth
44. An object weighs 10 N in air. When immeped fully in water, it weighs only 8 N. The weight of the
liquid displaced by the object will be
(a) 2N (b) 8 N (c) 10N (d) 12 N
45. A girl stands on a box that is 60 cm length, 40 cm breadth and 20 cm width in three ways. In which
of the following cases, pressure exerted by the brick will be
(a) maximum when length and breadth form the base
(b) maximum when breadth and width form the base
(c) maximum when width and length form the base
(d) the same in all the above three cases
46. An apple falls from a tree because of gravitational attraction between the earth and apple. If F, is
the magnitude of force exerted by the earth on the apple and F2 is the magnitude of force exerted
by apple on earth, then
(a) F1 is very much greater than F2 (b)F2 is very much greater than F1
(c)F1 is only a little greater than F2 (d)F1 and F2 are equal
47. What is the mass per unit volume of a substance called?
(a) Pressure (b) Force (c) Night (d) Density
48. One SI Unit of thrust is equal to ________ CGS Unit of it?
(a) 10 (b) 10-5 (c) 105 (d) 107
49. What is the units of relative density?
(a) kg/m3 (b) g/cm3 (c) g/m3 (d) no units
50. Acceleration due to gravity of the Earth increases with
(a) decrease in the height from the surface of the Earth
(b) increase in the height from the surface of the Earth.
(c) increase in the depth from the surface of the Earth.
(d) increase in the temperature of the Earth.
51. The upthrust that acts on a body placed in a liquid is due to _____.
(a) the volume of the displaced liquid (b) the volume of the body floating above the liquid (c)
the volume of body inside the liquid (d) both a and c
52. What will happen when a body of relative density more than that of water is dropped into
water? (a) floats on the water. (b) sinks into the water.
(c) suspends at the surface of the water. (d) sinks into or suspends in the surface.
53. The value of the universal gravitational constant is _______
(a) 6.67 x 10-11 Nm2/kg2 (b) 66.7 x 10-11 Nm2/kg2 (c) 0.6 x 10-11 Nm2/kg
(d) None of these
54. A cuboid is resting on a table in a way that its greater surface is in contact with the table. If its
position is changed, then the
(a) pressure applied by it on the table decreases.
(b) pressure applied by it on the table does not change.
(c) pressure applied by it on the table increases.
(d) Insufficient information.
55. Pressure applied at any point of the liquid is transmitted equally and distributed in all directions is
given by ______.
(a) Newton’s law (b) Pascal’s law (c) Archimedes’ principle (d) Universal law of gravitation
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56. Upthrust on a body immersed completely in the water is equal to
(a) the weight of the body. (b) the weight of the water displaced.
(c) the weight of the water in which the body is immersed. (d) None of these
57. Earth moves in a circular motion around the Sun because of ______force,
(a) frictional (b) static (c) applied (d) gravitational
58. If two bodies of masses 2 kg and 4 kg are separated by 10 m, the gravitational force of attraction
between them is _____N.
(a) 5.336 10-12 (b) 23.29 x 10–13 (c) 9.324 x 10-10 (d) 9.45 x 10-15
59. The SI unit of mass is________.
(a) milligram (b) gram (c) kilogram (d) All of these
60. Which of the following bodies can float in water?
(a) S (b) R (c) Q (d) P Body P Q R S
Mass 20g 5g 120g 18g
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Volume 2 cm 2 cm 1 m3 2 cm3

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