MHT-CET Gravitation — practice questions
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Practice MHT-CET Gravitation in the app →Kepler derived his three laws by analysing naked-eye planetary records compiled by whom?For Earth's orbit, the ratio of semi-minor to semi-major axis b/a is closest to:Kepler's second law follows from angular momentum conservation, which holds for:For a planet orbiting the Sun, which is NOT conserved?An astronaut in orbit feels weightless because:A body placed inside a hollow metal sphere is shielded from the gravity of outside masses:The gravitational force between two arbitrary finite rigid bodies is:The familiar expression mgh for gravitational potential energy is:In which year did Henry Cavendish first measure the gravitational constant G?The conventional value of standard gravity g_n, fixed by the CGPM in 1901, is:An object at sea level weighs roughly how much more at the poles than at the Equator?Besides Earth's spin, what lowers g at the Equator?Local changes in g caused by mountains and rock density are called:What is the measurement of Earth's gravity called?Dense ore-bearing rock below a site makes local g:Apart from m/s², acceleration due to gravity can also be expressed in:A rock weighs 72 N on Earth's surface. Its weight at height R_E/2 above the surface is:For a uniform-density Earth, a 100 N body taken to depth R_E/4 weighs:What minimum launch speed lets a body leave Earth for good?A rocket leaves Earth at three times the escape speed. Its speed far from Earth is about?A satellite in a circular orbit has kinetic energy 5 MJ. What is the magnitude of its potential energy?What is the sign of the total energy of an orbiting satellite?What is the gravitational force on a particle inside a uniform hollow spherical shell?Can a hollow shell shield a body inside it from outside gravitational pulls?For a particle outside a spherically symmetric body, the body's pull acts as if its mass were?Changing the arbitrary constant in gravitational potential energy changes the gravitational force by?For a satellite in an elliptical orbit, the orbital radius in the period formula is replaced by the?In an elliptical satellite orbit, the total mechanical energy is?Kepler's first law says a planet's orbit around the Sun is a(n)?A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps equal areas in equal times. This is Kepler's?According to Kepler's second law, when is a planet moving fastest?Kepler's third law relates a planet's orbital period T to its semi-major axis a as?A planet orbits at 4 times Earth's distance from the Sun. Its period is about how many Earth years?One planet has an orbital period 8 times that of another around the same star. Their orbital radius ratio is?Kepler's third law implies that the farther a planet is from the Sun, the?Kepler's laws were derived mainly from whose precise observations?Kepler's analysis of which planet's orbit first showed that orbits are elliptical?In which work did Kepler publish his third law, in 1619?Kepler's laws replaced which feature of Copernicus's model?Kepler noted in 1621 that his third law also fits the four brightest moons of which planet?Newton's law says gravitational force varies as?If the separation of two bodies is tripled, their mutual attraction becomes?Both masses and their separation are doubled. The gravitational force between them?One mass is tripled and the distance is also tripled. The force becomes?A uniform sphere attracts outside objects as if its mass were?Newton's Principia, which stated the law of gravitation, was first published in?In SI base units, the universal gravitational constant G has units of?Which experiment gave the first laboratory test of gravitation between masses?Newton's gravitation law resembles which electrical law, as both are inverse-square laws?Newton's law of gravitation was later superseded by whose theory?Newtonian gravity cannot fully explain the perihelion precession of which planet?Inside a spherical mass, what do layers beyond radius r0 produce at r0?Newton tested his inverse-square form using the period and distance of which orbit?Kepler's second law, Newton showed, holds for any force that is?Escape speed is the minimum speed needed for an object to?An object is in a circular or elliptical orbit. Compared with escape speed at that distance, its speed is?An object on a hyperbolic trajectory always has a speed that is?The escape speed from Earth's surface is about 11.2 km/s. In km/h this is?At a given height, escape speed is how many times the circular orbital speed there?A rocket under continuous thrust can escape from a planet at?Why is reaching escape speed near the ground impractical on Earth?Earth's equator spins at about 465 m/s. A launch to the east there is helped because it?The energy needed to remove mass m from a planet of mass M and radius r is?Gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in?Within one gravitational field, how do bodies of different mass accelerate in vacuum?The conventional standard value of g is defined exactly as?Earth's measured g at a point combines gravitation with which effect?Across Earth's surface, free-fall acceleration varies roughly between?The force each of two masses exerts on the other is?In general relativity, gravitation is described as an attribute of?The 1774 Schiehallion experiment compared Earth's pull with that of a?