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State and explain the law of inertia (or Newton's first law of motion).

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Force is an external agency that changes the state of rest or of uniform motion of a body.
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ICSE-LAWS OF MOTION-TOPIC 2 (2 Marks Questions )
  1. Draw graphs to show the dependence of force on mass for a constant acc...

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  2. How does the acceleration produced by a given force depend on the mass...

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  3. State Newton's third law of motion.

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  4. A light ball falling on ground, after striking the ground rises upward...

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  5. What is meant by the term inertia?

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  6. State and explain the law of inertia (or Newton's first law of motion)...

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  7. Name the factor on which the inertia of a body depends and state how ...

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  8. Name the two kinds of inertia.

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  9. Give one example in each of the following constant

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  10. Give one example of the following: inertia of motion.

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  11. Why does a person tend to fall when he jumps out from a moving train a...

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  12. Why does a coin, placed on a card, drop into the tumbler when the card...

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  13. “When a train suddenly moves forward, the passenger standing in the co...

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  14. "People often shake branches of a tree in an attempt to cause the fru...

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  15. Explain the following After alighting from a moving bus, one has t...

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  16. Dust particles are removed from a carpet by beating it.

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  17. A ball is hanging by string from the ceiling of the roof. Draw a neat ...

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  18. A spring is compressed against a rigid wall. Draw a neat and labeled d...

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  19. A wooden block is placed on a table top. Name the forces acting on the...

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  20. In the Fig., a block of weight 15 N is hanging from a rigid support by...

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