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प्रश्न
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Free Fall
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उत्तर
- The motion of any object under the influence of the force of gravity alone is called free fall.
- In free fall, the initial velocity of the object is zero and goes on increasing due to the acceleration due to gravity of the earth.
- During free fall, the frictional force due to air opposes the motion of the object and a buoyant force also acts on the object.
- Thus, true free fall is possible only in a vacuum.
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What is the acceleration of free fall?
A stone is released from the top of a tower of height 19.6 m. Calculate its final velocity just before touching the ground.
What is the acceleration produced in a freely falling body of mass 10 kg ? (Neglect air resistance)
What do you mean by the term free fall ?
Explain why, if a stone held in our hand is released, it falls towards the earth.
Name the force which wears away two surfaces as they move over one another.
Name the force which pulled the apple off Isaac Newton’s tree.
A metal ball of mass 5 kg falls from a height of 490 m. How much time it will take to reach the ground? (g = 9.8 m/s2)
Figure shows the velocity-time graph of a particle of mass 100 g moving in a straight line. Calculate the force acting on the particle.
(Hint : Acceleration = Slope of the v-t graph)

A car is moving with a uniform velocity 30 ms-1. It is stopped in 2 s by applying a force of 1500 N through its brakes. Calculate the following values : The retardation produced in car.
What force, in newton, your muscles need to apply to hold a mass of 5 kg in your hand? State the assumption.
In vacuum, all freely falling objects have the same force. Is it true?
Explain why:
Objects fall to the earth.
The free fall of an object is possible only in _______.
Write scientific reason.
When we drop a feather and a stone at the same time from a height the stone reach the earth faster than a feather.
Define acceleration due to gravity.
The mass and weight of an object on earth are 5 kg and 49 N respectively. What will be their values on the moon? Assume that the acceleration due to gravity on the moon is 1/6th of that on the earth.
Calculate the escape velocity on the surface of the moon given the mass and radius of the moon to be 7.34 × 1022 kg and 1.74 × 106 m respectively.
(Given: G = 6.67 × 10-11 Nm2/kg2)
When is free fall possible?
