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Motion in A Plane
Question
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Read the statement below carefully and state, with reasons, if it is true or false: 

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(a) The net acceleration of a particle in circular motion is always along the radius of
the circle towards the centre

Answer

A. FALSE
The net acceleration of a particle is towards the centre only in case of a uniform circular motion. 

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The net acceleration of a particle is towards the centre only in case of a uniform circular motion.

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Some More Questions From Motion in A Plane Chapter

What is a vector quantity?

Give three examples of scalar quantities.

Give three examples of vector quantities.

What are the basic characteristics that a quantity must possess so that it may be a vector quantity?

Is a physical quantity, having a direction, necessarily a vector?

Name a quantity which is both scalar as well as vector.

Which of the followings is/are vector quantities: work, power, acceleration, mass, momentum?

Pick up the odd one from the following: force, linear momentum, mass, impulse.

Pick out the only vector quantities in the following list:
Temperature, pressure, impulse, time, power, total path length, energy, gravitational potential, coefficient of friction and charge.

Pick out the two scalar quantities in the following list:
force, angular momentum, work, current, linear momentum, electric field, average velocity, magnetic moment, reaction as per Newton’s third law, relative velocity.