Matter In Our Surroundings

Question

What is meant by a point object? Give some examples.

Answer

Whenever the size of the object is much smaller than the distance it moves in a given time interval, the size of the object can be neglected. The objet can be regraded as point object in such cases.

Examples:

(i) A car covering a distance of 10 km can be treated as a point object.

(ii) Earth can be regarded as a point object for studying its motion around the Sun.

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