JAMB Physics · Interaction of matter, space and time
Gravitational field: JAMB Physics Past Questions and Answers
What the JAMB syllabus covers in Gravitational field
Our summary: How masses attract each other, how gravity varies, and what escape velocity and weightlessness mean.
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Gravitational potential
- Conservative and non-conservative fields
- Acceleration due to gravity
- Variation of g on the earth's surface
- Distinction between mass and weight; escape velocity
- Parking orbit and weightlessness
Objectives
- identify the expression for gravitational force between two bodies;
- apply Newton's law of universal gravitation;
- give examples of conservative and non-conservative fields;
- deduce the expression for gravitational field potentials;
- identify the causes of variation of g on the earth's surface;
- differentiate between mass and weight;
- determine escape velocity;
- relate the expression for gravitational force between two bodies;
- apply Newton's law of universal gravitation.
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JAMB Physics questions on Gravitational field
- JAMB 2025The gravitational force between two masses, P and Q, is 10N, find the new value of the force if both masses are doubled
- JAMB 2025The gravitational pull between two bodies is 20N. Find the gravitational pull when their distance of separation is doubled.
- JAMB 2025If the weight of an object on the Earth's surface is 2.5 x 10 ^3 N, what is its weight on the moon's surface if the gravitational force of the moon is one-sixth…
- JAMB 2024The gravitational force between two objects masses 10 ^ 24 kg and 10 ^ 27 kg is 6.67N. Calculate the distance between them [ G = 6.6 x 10 ^ -11 Nm ^2 kg ^ -2 ]
- JAMB 2024The acceleration of a free fall due to gravity is not a constant everywhere on the Earth's surface because
- JAMB 2024The gravitational force between two objects is 10N, what is the new value of the force if the distance between them is halved?
- JAMB 2024The moon's acceleration due to gravity is 1/6 of the earth's value. The weight of a bowling ball on the moon would be
- JAMB 2022The gravitational pull on the moon is 1/6 that of the earth. If a body weighs 6.0 N on the moon, what will be the weight on the earth?
- JAMB 2019The earth's gravitational field intensity at its surface is about (G = 6.7 × 10 ^ -11 Nm ^2 /kg ^2 , mass of the earth is 6 × 10 ^ 24 kg, radius of the earth is…
- JAMB 2016A satellite revolving around the earth is kept on its orbit by?
- JAMB 2016A satellite moves in a circular orbit of radius 4R round the earth. The acceleration of the satellite in terms of g is
- JAMB 2015A member of the crew of a SPACESHIP experiences weightlessness in a space when they
- JAMB 2015The dimension of universal gravitational constant is … .?
- JAMB 2015A structural engineer stood on a top of a building releasing a light and heavy object to the ground which of the following statement is true?(Neglect Air…
- JAMB 2015Calculate the gravitation force of attraction between two planets of 10^ 24 kg and 10^ 27 kg separated by a distance of 10^ 20 meters
- JAMB 2014Calculate the escape velocity of a satellite launched from the earth's surface if the radius of the earth is 6.4x106m
- JAMB 2013When a brick is taken from the earth's surface to the moon, its mass
- JAMB 2012A rocket is fired from the earth's surface to a distant planet. By Newton's law of universal gravitation, the force F will
- JAMB 2011A man standing on a lift that is descending does not feel any weight because
- JAMB 2010A stone and a feather are dropped from the same height above the earth surface. Ignoring air resistance, which of the following is correct?
- JAMB 2010An object is weighed at different locations on the Earth. What will be the right observation?
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