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What is mean by free fall?

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Falling of a body towards earth due to force of gravity is said to be free fall.
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  2. If a body of mass 40 kg is kept at a distance of 0.5 m from a body of ...

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  3. How the mass and distance between objects affects gravitational force?

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  7. Fill in the blanks. Acceleration due to gravity does not affect the ...

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  8. Fill in the blanks. 1 kg wt = ……N

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  9. What is mean by free fall?

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  10. Weight of an object in free fall is zero? Why.

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  11. Drill a hole at the bottom of an open bottle and fill it with water. ...

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  12. Correct the following. Force of attraction increases when an object ...

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  13. Correct the following. Value of g remains the same on all regions of...

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  14. Calculate the weight of a body in the moon if it weights 150 kg in ear...

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  15. What will be the weight of a body at the centre of earth.

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  16. State Universal Law of gravitation?

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  17. The dimensions of universal gravitational constant are

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  18. Mention each letter of gravitation indicates to what?

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  19. How the mass and distance between objects affects gravitational force?

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  20. List the situations in which gravitational force experiences.

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