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The escape velocity from the Earth's surface is approximately ($R = 6.4 \times 10^6$ m, $g = 9.8$ m/s²):Read the answer and worked solution →Newton's law of gravitation states the force between two masses is:Read the answer and worked solution →At the surface of Earth, acceleration due to gravity g equals:Read the answer and worked solution →A body falls from infinity to Earth's surface. Its velocity at the surface (in terms of escape velocity v_e):Read the answer and worked solution →As per your syllabus, eqn 7.25, the gravitational potential energy of a particle of mass m at distance r from a mass M (V = 0 at ∞) is which?Read the answer and worked solution →As per your syllabus, the period of Mars' orbit (orbit radius 1.52 × Earth's) is approximately which?Read the answer and worked solution →Which planet has the higher surface gravity?Read the answer and worked solution →Conserved, or not conserved?Read the answer and worked solution →True or false: conservation under gravityRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the weightlessness explanationRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: weightlessnessRead the answer and worked solution →Kepler's third lawRead the answer and worked solution →Assertion and reasonRead the answer and worked solution →Two are true, one is notRead the answer and worked solution →Three of these are wrong. Find the one that holds.Read the answer and worked solution →Tap every quantity conserved for orbital motionRead the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: law with what it saysRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not belongRead the answer and worked solution →Order the reasoning: why an astronaut floatsRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: Kepler's lawsRead the answer and worked solution →Which law is being described?Read the answer and worked solution →Orbits and satellitesRead the answer and worked solution →Tap every true statement about orbital motionRead the answer and worked solution →Complete Kepler's third lawRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not belongRead the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: statement with its subjectRead the answer and worked solution →Assertion and reason: orbitsRead the answer and worked solution →

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The escape velocity from the Earth's surface is approximately ($R = 6.4 \times 10^6$ m, $g = 9.8$ m/s²):

  1. $7.9$ km/s
  2. $11.2$ km/s
  3. $20$ km/s
  4. $1000$ m/s
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Correct answer: B. $11.2$ km/s

Escape velocity from Earth's surface: $v_e = \sqrt{2gR}$ (using the surface relation $GM/R^2 = g$). $v_e = \sqrt{2 \times 9.8 \times 6.4 \times 10^6} = \sqrt{1.25 \times 10^8} \approx 1.12 \times 10^4$ m/s $= 11.2$ km/s. Option A ($7.9$ km/s) is the *orbital* velocity at Earth's surface, smaller by a factor of $\sqrt{2}$. That trap is identical to the one in the orbital-velocity question.

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Newton's law of gravitation states the force between two masses is:

  1. Repulsive
  2. Proportional to distance
  3. Attractive, inversely proportional to square of distance
  4. Independent of mass
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Correct answer: C. Attractive, inversely proportional to square of distance

F = G m1 m2 / r². Always attractive, follows inverse square law. Direction along the line joining the centres.

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At the surface of Earth, acceleration due to gravity g equals:

  1. GM/R
  2. GMR
  3. GM/R²
  4. GM²/R
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Correct answer: C. GM/R²

g = GM/R² at Earth's surface, where M is Earth's mass and R its radius. Approximately 9.8 m/s².

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