Gravitation — JEE Main PYQs & Practice Questions

Gravitation is a Physics chapter in the JEE Main syllabus. This page brings together 171 previous-year and practice questions on Gravitation, organised into 6 topics: Kepler's Laws, Newton's Law of Gravitation, Gravitational Field and Potential, Escape Velocity, Satellites and Orbital Motion and Variation of g. Most questions come with a step-by-step solution you can work through free in PrepWiser.

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Kepler's Laws

• The minimum and maximum distances of a planet revolving around the sun are x₁ and x₂. If…
• Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is…
• Choose the incorrect statement from the following:
• Two planets A and B of equal mass are having their period of revolutions T A and T B…
• The maximum and minimum distances of a comet from the Sun are 1.6 × 10¹² m and 8.0 ×…
• A planet takes 200 days to complete one revolution around the Sun. If the distance of…
• A satellite is in an elliptical orbit around a planet P. It is observed that the…
• A planet revolving in elliptical orbit has : A. a constant velocity of revolution. B…
• A light planet is revolving around a massive star in a circular orbit of radius R with a…
• Kepler's third law: the square of the orbital period T is proportional to:
• A planet (P₁) is moving around the star of mass 2M in the orbit of radius R. Another…
• The angular momentum of a planet of mass M moving around the sun in an elliptical orbit…
• If a satellite orbiting the Earth is 9 times closer to the Earth than the Moon, what is…
• Every planet revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit :- A. The force acting on a…
• The distance between Sun and Earth is R. The duration of year if the distance between…
• Kepler's first law states that the planets move in:
• If the distance of the earth from Sun is 1.5 × 10⁶ km. Then the distance of an imaginary…
• If Earth's period is 1 year at 1 AU, a planet orbiting the Sun at 4 AU has a period of:

Newton's Law of Gravitation

• Three identical particles A, B and C of mass 100 kg each are placed in a straight line…
• Two planets have masses M and 16 M and their radii are a and 2a, respectively. The…
• Two identical particles each of mass ' m ' go round a circle of radius a under the…
• A solid sphere of radius R gravitationally attracts a particle placed at 3R from its…
• The gravitational field strength g at the Earth's surface in terms of Earth's mass M and…
• The gravitational force between two masses is F. If the distance between them is…
• Four particles each of mass M, move along a circle of radius R under the action of their…
• A 90 kg body placed at 2 R distance from surface of earth experiences gravitational pull…
• Net gravitational force at the center of a square is found to be F₁ when four particles…
• Two bodies each of mass 100 kg are placed 1 m apart. The gravitational force between…
• Two particles of equal mass 'm' move in a circle of radius 'r' under the action of their…
• A small point of mass m is placed at a distance 2 R from the centre ' O ' of a big…
• Three identical spheres of mass m , are placed at the vertices of an equilateral…
• Two objects of equal masses placed at certain distance from each other attracts each…
• Two stars of masses m and 2m at a distance d rotate about their common centre of mass in…
• Four spheres each of mass m from a square of side d (as shown in figure). A fifth sphere…
• The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of earth is g. If the diameter of earth…
• Given below are two statements : Statement I : The law of gravitation holds good for any…
• Four identical particles of equal masses 1 kg made to move along the circumference of a…
• Find the gravitational force of attraction between the ring and sphere as shown in the…

Gravitational Field and Potential

• The mass density of a planet of radius R varies with the distance r from its centre as…
• The gravitational potential at a point above the surface of earth is -5.12 × 10⁷ J / kg…
• The change in gravitational PE of a body of mass m raised a small height h above Earth's…
• Three masses 200 kg,300 kg and 400 kg are placed at the vertices of an equilateral…
• A mass of 50 kg is placed at the centre of a uniform spherical shell of mass 100 kg and…
• A body is released from a height equal to the radius (R) of the earth. The velocity of…
• Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is…
• Suppose two planets (spherical in shape) in radii R and 2R, but mass M and 9M…
• If the gravitational field in the space is given as (-K/r²). Taking the reference point…
• On the x-axis and at a distance x from the origin, the gravitational field due a mass…
• Inside a uniform spherical shell : (1) the gravitational field is zero (2) the…
• A metal wire of uniform mass density having length L and mass M is bent to form a…
• A body of mass is taken from earth surface to the height h equal to twice the radius of…
• Consider two solid spheres of radii R₁ = 1m, R₂ = 2m and masses M₁ and M₂, respectively…
• An object is allowed to fall from a height R above the earth, where R is the radius of…
• An asteroid is moving directly towards the centre of the earth. When at a distance of…
• A body of mass m is taken from the surface of earth to a height equal to twice the…
• If one wants to remove all the mass of the earth to infinity in order to break it up…
• An object of mass 1 kg is taken to a height from the surface of earth which is equal to…
• By convention, the gravitational potential at infinity is taken as:

Escape Velocity

• Given below are two statements: Statement I : For a planet, if the ratio of mass of the…
• Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is…
• If Earth's mass were doubled and its radius halved, the escape velocity would become k…
• The radius in kilometer to which the present radius of earth (R = 6400 km) to be…
• The masses and radii of the earth and moon are (M₁, R₁) and (M₂, R₂) respectively. Their…
• An object is kept at rest at a distance of 3 R above the earth's surface where R is…
• Escape velocity from a planet depends on:
• A body is projected vertically upwards from the surface of earth with a velocity…
• Planet A has mass M and radius R. Planet B has half the mass and half the radius of…
• A body is projected vertically upwards from the surface of earth with a velocity equal…
• Escape velocity of a body from earth is 11.2 km / s. If the radius of a planet be…
• A body of mass m is projected with velocity λ vₑ in vertically upward direction from the…
• The escape velocities of two planets A and B are in the ratio 1: 2. If the ratio of…
• To project a body of mass m from earth's surface to infinity, the required kinetic…
• The escape velocity from the surface of the Earth is about 11.2 km/s. If the radius of…
• A space ship of mass 2 × 10⁴ kg is launched into a circular orbit close to the earth…
• Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is…
• A planet having mass 9 Me and radius 4 Rₑ, where Me and Re are mass and radius of earth…
• The mass of the moon is 1/144 times the mass of a planet and its diameter is 1/16 times…
• The escape velocity of a body on a planet 'A' is 12 kms⁻¹. The escape velocity of the…

Satellites and Orbital Motion

• The orbital angular momentum of a satellite is L, when it is revolving in a circular…
• An astronaut takes a ball of mass m from earth to space. He throws the ball into a…
• If a body of mass 1 kg falls on the earth from infinity, it attains velocity ( v ) and…
• Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is…
• A satellite is launched into a circular orbit of radius ' R ' around the earth. A second…
• Two identical particles of mass 1 kg each go round a circle of radius R, under the…
• Given below are two statements: Statement I: If E be the total energy of a satellite…
• Two satellites of masses m and 3m revolve around the earth in circular orbits of radii r…
• Given below are two statements : Statement I : A satellite is moving around earth in the…
• Two satellites A and B, having masses in the ratio 4: 3, are revolving in circular…
• The escape velocity from a spherical planet A is 10 km/s. The escape velocity from…
• Two satellite A and B go round a planet in circular orbits having radii 4R and R…
• Two satellites S₁ and S₂ are revolving in circular orbits around a planet with radius R₁…
• A satellite is launched into a circular orbit of radius R around earth, while a second…
• A particle of mass m moves in a circular orbit under the central potential field, U(r) =…
• The time period of a satellite, revolving above earth's surface at a height equal to R…
• The orbital speed of a satellite just above the Earth's surface is approximately:
• The time period of a satellite in a circular orbit of radius R is T. The period of…
• Consider two satellites S₁ and S₂ with periods of revolution 1 hr. and 8 hr…
• A body A of mass m is moving in a circular orbit of radius R about a planet. Another…

Variation of g

• Assuming the earth to be a sphere of uniform mass density, the weight of a body at a…
• The acceleration due to gravity at height h above the earth if h << R (Radius of earth)…
• The length of a seconds pendulum at a height h = 2R from earth surface will be: (Given R…
• At a certain depth "d " below surface of earth, value of acceleration due to gravity…
• Assume that a tunnel is dug along a chord of the earth, at a perpendicular distance…
• If the acceleration due to gravity experienced by a point mass at a height h above the…
• Assuming the earth to be a sphere of uniform mass density, a body weighed 300 N on the…
• Given below are two statements: Statement I : Acceleration due to earth's gravity…
• The percentage decrease in the weight of a rocket, when taken to a height of 32 km above…
• The height of any point P above the surface of earth is equal to diameter of earth. The…
• Given below are two statements: Statement I : Rotation of the earth shows effect on the…
• A person whose mass is 100 kg travels from Earth to Mars in a spaceship. Neglect all…
• T is the time period of simple pendulum on the earth's surface. Its time period becomes…
• A body weights 49N on a spring balance at the north pole. What will be its weight…
• The height ‘h’ at which the weight of a body will be the same as that at the same depth…
• Acceleration due to gravity on the surface of earth is ' g '. If the diameter of earth…
• If R E be the radius of Earth, then the ratio between the acceleration due to gravity at…
• The weight of a body on the surface of the earth is 100 N. The gravitational force on it…
• The approximate height from the surface of earth at which the weight of the body becomes…
• The variation of acceleration due to gravity (g) with distance (r) from the center of…

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• Circular Motion
• Work, Energy & Power
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• Elasticity
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• Surface Tension
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• Kinetic Theory of Gases
• Thermodynamics
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• Mechanical Waves
• Sound Waves
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• Electrostatics II — Potential & Capacitance
• Current Electricity
• Moving Charges & Magnetism
• Magnetism & Matter
• Electromagnetic Induction
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Frequently asked questions

How many Gravitation questions are there for JEE Main?

PrepWiser has 171 Gravitation questions for JEE Main, grouped into 6 topics such as Kepler's Laws, Newton's Law of Gravitation and Gravitational Field and Potential.

Are these Gravitation questions from previous-year JEE Main papers?

Yes — most are genuine previous-year questions from past JEE Main papers, and the rest are practice questions written to match the JEE Main pattern and difficulty.

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