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Acceleration due to gravity is independent of mass of the earth/mass of the body.

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  14. A rocket is fired from the earth towards the sun. At what distance fro...

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  15. How will you ‘weigh the sun’, that is estimate its mass? The mean orbi...

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  16. A Saturn year is 29.5 times the earth year. How far is the Saturn from...

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  17. A body weighs 63 N on the surface of the earth. What is the gravitatio...

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  18. Assuming the earth to be a sphere of uniform mass density, how much wo...

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  19. A rocket is fired vertically with a speed of 5 km s^(-1) from the eart...

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  20. The escape speed of a projectile on the earth’s surface is 11.2 km s^(...

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