Four particles A, B, C and D with masses are at the corners of a square. They have accelerations of equal magnitude with directions as shown. The acceleration of the centre of mass of the particles is:

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Four particles A, B, C and D with masses are at the corners of a square. They have accelerations of equal magnitude with directions as shown. The acceleration of the centre of mass of the particles is:

Three particles of masses and are placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side 1m (as shown in the figure). The co-ordinates of the centre of mass will be:

A simple pendulum, made of a string of length l and a bob of mass m, is released from a small angle . It strikes a block of mass M, kept on a horizontal surface at its lowest point of oscillations, elastically. It bounces back and goes up to an angle. Then M is given by :
A uniform rectangular thin sheet ABCD of mass M has length a and breadth b, as shown in the figure. If the shaded portion HBGO is cut-off, the coordinates of the centre of mass of the remaining portion will be

A body of mass 2 kg makes an elastic collision with a second body at rest and continues to move in the original direction but with one fourth of its original speed. What is the mass of the second body?
A body of mass 1 kg falls freely from a height of 100 m on a platform of mass 3 kg which is mounted on a spring having spring constant k = 1.25 × N/m. The body sticks to the platform and the spring's maximum compression is found to be x. Given thatg = 10 , the value of x will be close to :
The position vector of the centre of mass cm of an symmetric uniform bar of negligible area of cross-section as shown in figure is :

Two Particles , of masses M and 2M moving , as shown,with speeds of 10m/s and 5m/s , collied elastically at the origin. After the collision , they move along the indicated directions with speeds and , respectively , The value of and are nearly:

Three blocks A, B and C are lying on a smoothhorizontal surface, as shown in the figure. A andB have equal masses, m while C has mass M.Block A is given an brutal speed v towards Bdue to which it collides with B perfectlyinelastically. The combined mass collides with C, also perfectly inelastically th of the initial kinetic energy is lost in whole process. What is value of M/m ? [9-Jan-2019 Shift 1]

A man (mass = 50 kg) and his son (mass = 20 kg) are standing on a frictionless surface facing each other. The man pushes his son so that he starts moving at a speed of 0.70 with respect to the man. The speed of the man with respect to the surface is.
A particle of mass m is moving in a straight linewith momentum p. Starting at time t = 0, a forceF = kt acts in the same direction on the movingparticle during time interval T so that itsmomentum changes from p to 3p. Here k is aconstant. The value of T is :
If gas molecules each of mass kg collide with a surface (perpendicular to it) elastically per second over an area 1 with a speed m/s, the pressure exerted by the gas molecules will be of the order of :
A body of mass m1 moving with an unknown velocity of , undergoes a collinear collision with a body of mass moving with a velocity . After collision, and move with velocities of and , respectively. If and , then is:
A piece of wood of mass 0.03 kg is dropped from the top of a 100 m height building. At the same time, a bullet of mass 0.02 kg is fired vertically upward, with a velocity 100 , from the ground. The bullet gets embedded in the wood. Then the maximumheight to which the combined system reaches above the top of the building before falling below is : (g = 10 )
A wedge of mass M = 4m lies on a frictionless plane. A particle of mass mapproaches the wedge with speed . There is no friction between the particle andthe plane or between the particle and the wedge. The maximum height climbed bythe particle on the wedge is given by :
A ball is thrown vertically up (taken as +z-axis) from the ground. The correct momentum - height (p-h) diagram is:
A proton of mass collides elastically with a particle of unknown mass at rest. After the collision, the proton and the unknown particle are seen moving at an angle of with respect to each other. The mass of unknown particle is :
The mass of a hydrogen molecule is kg.If hydrogen molecules strike, per second, a fixed wall of area at an angle of 45° to the normal, and rebound elastically with a speed of m/s, then the pressure on the wall is nearly[Main 8 April 2018]
In a collinear collision, a particle with an initial speed strikes a stationary particle of the same mass. If the final total kinetic energy is 50% greater than the original kinetic energy, the magnitude of the relative velocity between the two particles, after collision, is:[Main 8 April 2018]
Two particles A and B of equal mass M are moving with the same speed v as shown in the figure. They collide completely in elastically and move as a single particle C. The angle θ that the path of C makes with the X-axis is given by :[Main 9 April 2017]

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