Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
What do you understand by the term weight?
Advertisements
उत्तर
Weight of a body is defined as the force with which the earth attracts it.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
When a shot is fired from a gun, the gun is recoiled. Explain.
In the Figure a block of weight 15 N is hanging from a rigid support by a string. What force is exerted by (a) a block on the string and (b) a string on the block? Name and show them in the diagram.

What do you understand by the term force due to gravity ?
Explain the meaning of the following statement '1 kgf = 9.8 N'.
What is the (a) force of gravity and (b) weight of a block of mass 10.5 kg ? Take g = 10 ms-2 .
Name the device used for measuring weight
A man weigh 800 N at the equator. How does the weight of man change at the following place?
At poles
How is weight affected in the following case, when initially the body is weighed in Delhi with a spring balance?
Body is taken to Ceylon.
A truck rolls down a hill with constant acceleration after starting from rest. It travels a distance of 100 m in 10 s. find its acceleration. Find the force acting on it, if its mass is 5 metric tons. (tonne)
Does the force of gravitation between two objects depend on the medium between them?
