Gravitation Concepts

   Wednesday, July 22, 2020   

Gravitation Concepts include all Definitions, Laws, Diagrams, Rules, Examples, Results etc.

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Gravitational Constant | Gravitational unit of force | Characteristics of Gravitational Force | Universal Law of Gravitation | Importance of Universal Law of Gravitation | Force due to gravity | Gravitational force between two objects | Understanding Earth's gravitation using universal law of gravitation | Problems involving universal law of gravitation | Experimental method to determine the value of gravitational constant

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Superposition principle and concept of negative mass | Comparision of order of magnitude of gravitational forces with electrical forces | Freely falling body | Relationship between acceleration due to gravity and gravitational constant | Acceleration due to Gravity | Variation in time period of pendulum due to change in acceleration due to gravity | Experimental determination of 'g' with the help of simple pendulum | Weight and Mass | equivalence principle in einstein's general relativity | Inertial and Gravitational mass

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Weight of Object on Moon | Variation in acceleration due to gravity | Approximate variation of acceleration due to gravity with height and depth | Effect of non-spherical shape of earth on the value of acceleration due to gravity | Affect of sun's gravitation on earth's surface | Variation of acceleration due to gravity with latitudinal position on earth | Problems on relation of g and G | Gravitational field lines | Gravitational Field | Gravitational force due to continuous masses by integration of elemental masses

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Gravitational field due to a continuous mass system with variable mass density | Gravitational potential due to a continuous mass | Force between continuous bodies | Gravitational Field due to a point mass | Gravitational Field due to solid sphere | Graph for gravitational field due to Solid Sphere | Vector sum of gravitational forces on a mass due to a system of masses | Gravitational Field due to a uniform ring | Define and use analogous gauss's law for gravitation | Gravitational Potential (V)

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Gravitational Field due to Spherical Shell | Graph for gravitational field due to thin Spherical Shell | Gravitational Potential due to a point mass | Gravitational Potential due to a uniform ring | Gravitational Potential inside and outside of a thin spherical shell | Gravitational Potential due to a solid sphere | Change in gravitational potential energy as work done by gravitational force | Gravitational field as a gradient of gravitational potential | Potential as path integral of gravitational field | Gravitational energy density per unit volume

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Gravitational Potential Energy between two point masses | Gravitational Energy of a System | Work done in assembling a system of masses | Change in potential energy of a mass in a given potential field | Work done in changing configuration of a system of masses | Work done in changing configuration of a system of continuous masses | Field due to different arrangements of shells | Aerial Velocity | Kepler's Law | Kepler's Second Law | Kepler's Third Law

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Newton's Conclusions From Kepler's Laws | Definition of Binding Energy | Define Escape Velocity | Expression for Escape velocity | Find the variation of escape velocity | Escape Velocity in an Orbit | Maximum Height Attained by a projectile | Escape Velocity for an object projected at an angle | Escape velocity of a body under force from two planets | Critical velocity

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Escape Velocity on moon | Reason for presence of atmosphere on big planets | Time Period of revolution of satellites | Time Period of satellites | Orbital Speed of satellites | Relative motion of geostationary satellite with respect to earth | Binary System of Stars

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Conservation of Angular Momentum of masses in orbits | Condition on minimum and maximum distance of approach | Condition for elliptical, parabolic and circular orbits | Problem on Angular momentum conservation in elliptical orbits | Use angular momentum conservation in problems where nature of orbit of earth changes | Energy of satellites

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Geostationary Satellite | Orbital speed and distance from earth's surface of geostationary satellite | Polar Satellite | Time period of polar satellites | Application of satellites | Weather monitoring satellite | Describe the possible cases of projection of satellite