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What are the numerical value and SI unit of G?

Important Questions on Gravitation

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What is the force of gravity between the earth and the mass of 20 kg placed on its surface? (Given, g=9.8 ms2)
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Name the source of centripetal force that the moon requires to revolve around the earth.
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If the distance between masses of two objects is increased by five times, by what factor would the mass of one of them have to be changed to maintain the same gravitational force? Would there be an increase or a decrease in the same?
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State Kepler’s first law of planetary motion.
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What is the difference between perihelion and aphelion.
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The distance of a planet from the sun is 40 times that of the earth. What is the ratio of their time periods of revolution around the sun?
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Suppose a planet exists whose mass and radius both are half that of the earth. The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of this planet will be double? Justify.
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Acceleration due to gravity of the earth is less at the equator than at poles. Why?