A person throws an object on a horizontal frictionless plane surface. It is noticed that there are two forces acting on this object - (i) gravitational pull and (ii) normal reaction of the surface. According to the third law of motion, the net resultant force is zero. Which one of the following can be said for the motion of the object?

Two parallel, but not necessarily unidirectional, forces of magnitude 1 N and 2 N are acting on a body. Two more, parallel, again not necessarily unidirectional, forces of magnitude 3 N and 1 N, but…

A person is standing on a frictionless horizontal ground. How can he move by a certain distance on this ground?

Which of the following statements give characteristics of contact forces ? 1. It appears between an object when it is in contact with some other object 2. It satisfies the third law of motion 3. It m…

Which one of the following equations related to the motion of an object is NOT correct? (Symbols carry their usual meanings)

Weight and mass of an object are defined with Newton's laws of motion. Which among the following is true ?