Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Gravitationand space science.


  1. Who was Isaac Newton?
  2. If you were in the place  of Issac Newton,what would you have done with the apple?
  3. What does the force of gravitation depend on?
  4. Who was Ptolemy? What was his contention?
  5. Who was Copernicus? What is heliocentric theory?
  6. Who was Tycho Brahe? What is his contribution?
  7. What did Johannes Kepler do with the data  of Tycho Brahe?
  8. What are the fundamental forces of nature?
  9. Which  is the weakest among them?
  10. What is Newton's Law?
  11. What are the features of Newton's law of gravitation?
  12. When does the value of acceleration  decreases?
  13. when does it become zero at the center of  the earth?
  14. Define gravitational potential at a point.
  15. when is it at maximum and  and  will have a negative value/
  16. What is a satellite?
  17. Define Escape velocity.
  18. Define orbital velocity.
  19. What do you know about geostationary satellite?
  20. What is the time period of the  satellite?
  21. What is  the inertial mass of a body?
  22. What is gravitational  mass?
  23. What is a rocket?

Friday, 19 August 2011

answer the following 2


  1. Define Physics.
  2. What does Physics deal with?
  3. write some  technological applications of physics.
  4. What is force?
  5.  What are the four basic forces of nature?
  6. What is an unit?
  7. What is SI system?
  8. How many fundamental units and supplementary units are there in SI sytem of units?
  9. Why does the SI system not vary with the time?
  10. What is one standard metre ?
  11. One standard metre is equal to -------------- wavelengths of the ---------------light emitted by the individual --------of--------in a krypton --------lamp.
  12. what is mass? 
  13. What is one kg equal to?
  14. What is  there at the International bureau of weights and measures  and where is this bureeau?
  15. Define one standard second.
  16. What is Kelvin?
  17. Define one light year.
  18. Define Astronomical unit
  19. Define precision of a number
  20. What are the significant figures?
  21. what is an error?
  22. What is constant error?
  23. What is systemic error?
  24. What are random errors?
  25. What are  dimensions of a physical quantity?
  26. What are dimensional constants?
  27. When or where is the principle of homogeneity used?
  28. When is an equation dimensionally correct?



answer the following 1


  1. Define physics.
  2. How do the practical applications help mankind?
  3. what are  physical quantities?give examples.
  4. How are the physical quantities or the relation explained?
  5. What is dimensional equation?
  6. What is error?
  7. What is approximation?
  8. What is one light year?
  9. What is one astronomical Unit?
  10. What is Laser pulse method?
  11. What is percentage error?
  12. Explain principle of homogeneity?
  13. Give the formula for surface tension of a liquid.
  14. Explain the time period of the simple pendulum.

Tuesday, 5 July 2011


  1. Nature of physical world and measurement.
  2. Kinematics
  3. Dynamics of Rotational motion.
  4. Gravitation and space science.
  5. Mechanics of solids and fluids
  6. Oscillation
  7. Wave motion
  8. Heat and Thermo- dynamics
  9. Ray optics
  10. Magnetism