Matric Notes Physics 9th Ch 3 Dynamics Long Questions
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- The quantity of matter in a body is called mass.
- Mass is constant everywhere.
- Mass is measured by ordinary balance I-ie beam balance.
- It is represented by “m”.
- It is scalar quantity.
- Its unit is kg.
- The force with which earth attracts things toward its center is called force.
- Weight is variable quantity.
- Weight is measured by spring balance.
- It is denoted by w.
- It is vector quantity.
- Its unit is Newton.
Q.18) What is force? What are its units? Distinguish between contact and non-contact forces?
Answer: Force: “A force is a kind of a push or a pull on an object”. OR “Force is a physical quantity which moves or tends to move a body, stops or tends to stop a moving body”.
Unit of Force: In SI the unit force is Newton ‘N’. One newton is defined as “the force that produces an acceleration of one meter per second squared (a = 1m/s2) in a body of mass one kilogram (1 kg).
1 N = 1 kg × 1 m / s2 or N = kg m / s2
Contact and Non-Contact forces:
We can think of different ways in which we can move textbook. We can push or pull it, or we can tie a string around it and pull on the string. We often call these contact forces because the force is exerted when one object comes in contact with another object. As we are holding physics textbook right now, our hands are exerting a contact force on it. There are other ways in which we can change the motion of the textbook. It would accelerate as if it falls to the ground. This time the gravitational force of Earth (which is not a contact force) is acting on the book which is causing this acceleration. We call such forces as non- contact forces, field forces or action-at-a-distance forces.
Q.19) State Newton’s three laws of motion. Give one example for each.
Answer: First law of motion: Statement: “If the net (external) force acting on an object is zero, the object will maintain its state of rest or of uniform motion (constant velocity)”.
Explanation: The study of first law of motion can be divided into two parts.
Bodies At Rest: The first part of the law sates that a body at rest will remain at rest if no net force acts on it. This part of first law is easy to understand and goes with our common observation. For example a chair laying in a room will remain stationary and will not start moving or flying around by itself unless some one moves it by applying a net force.
Bodies In Motion: The second part of the law states that a body in motion will continue to move in a straight in line with uniform speed if no net force acts on it. However our daily observation is against this. For example if we roll a ball it comes to rest after some time. But careful study of the moving ball shows that there are forces (like friction and air resistance) which oppose the motion of the ball.
This means that object would continue to move in a straight line for ever, with uniform speed if the forces opposing the motion of the object are removed.
Newton’s second law of motion: Statement: “A net force(unbalanced force) applied on the body produces an acceleration ‘a’ in the body. This acceleration is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force and inversely proportional the as of the object”.