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The weight of a body is minimum at the poles.

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The weight of a body at the poles is greater thasn the weight at the equator. Is it the actual weight or the apparent weight we are talking about? Does your answer depend on whether only the earth's roptation is taken into account or the flattening of the earth at the poles is also taken into account?

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  1. The CGS unit of the universal constant of gravitation is the dyne cm^(...

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  2. At the centre of the earth , the value of the acceleration due to grav...

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  3. The weight of a body is minimum at the poles.

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  4. Mass is a vector quantity.

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  5. Weight is a vector at the equator.

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  6. g has maximum value at the equator.

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  7. Outside the earth, g varies as 1//(R+h)^(2).

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  8. The value of G changes from place to place.

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  9. The value of g increases with altitude.

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  10. The escape velocity of a body does not depend on the mass of the body.

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  11. The mass of a body is the amount of matter present in it.

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  13. Study the entries in the following table the rewrite then putting the ...

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  14. State the SI and CGS units of G.

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  15. State any one characteristic of gravitational force.

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  16. Name the force that keeps a satellite in the orbit around the earth.

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  17. Name the force due to which the earth revolves around the Sun.

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  18. What is the acceleration due to gravity at a height h ( = radius of th...

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  19. What is the relation between the SI unit of weight and CGS unit of wei...

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  20. Write the formula for the centripetal force acting on a body performin...

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