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  1. 111MPPSC1992General ScienceEnglish

    If an object is falling from above, its weight remains

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    Correct option: B — Same

  2. 112RPSC1992General ScienceEnglish

    If pieces of equal size of woods, wax and iron falling from a same height, which one will reach the surface of the Earth first?

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    Correct option: D — Reach at the same time

  3. 113UPPSC1992General ScienceEnglish

    The two balls of iron and wood of same weight dropped from the same height, then

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    Correct option: C — The wooden ball falls later

  4. 114Goa PSC2018General ScienceEnglish

    Two balls A and B are of 10 kg and 1 kg, respectively. They are dropped simultaneously from a height of 20 m. Which of the following is correct?

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    Correct option: C — Both A and B will reach the ground at the same time

  5. 115MPSC2017General ScienceEnglish

    The weight of human body is

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    Correct option: A — Maximum at the poles

  6. 116UPSC1998General ScienceEnglish

    A ball is dropped from the top of a high building with a constant acceleration of 9.8 m/s². What will be its velocity after 3 s?

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    Correct option: C — 29.4 m/s

  7. 117UPSC2003General ScienceEnglish

    If the radius of the Earth were to shrink by one percent, its mass remaining the same, the value of g on the Earth’s surface would

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    Correct option: B — Increase by 2%

  8. 118UPSC1994General ScienceEnglish

    The acceleration due to gravity of a destructive Earthquake will be

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    Correct option: D — >980 cm/s²

  9. 119UPSC2001General ScienceEnglish

    The mass of a body on the Earth is 100 kg (acceleration due to gravity, ge = 10 m/s²). If acceleration due to gravity on the Moon is (ge = 10⁶ m/s²), then the mass of the body on the Moon is

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    Correct option: C — 100 kg

  10. 120MPPSC1991General ScienceEnglish

    Weightlessness is

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    Correct option: A — Zero gravity

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