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Q1.

According to Kepler's second law of planetary motion, the magnitude of areal velocity $\left(\dfrac{\Delta A}{\Delta t}\right)$ of a planet of mass '$m$' revolving around the sun is constant and is equal to ('$p$' is the linear momentum and '$L$' is the angular momentum)

(A)
$\dfrac{p^2}{2m}$
(B)
$2mL$
(C)
$\dfrac{p}{m}$
(D)
$\dfrac{L}{2m}$
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Q2.

The mass of earth is 81 times the mass of the moon and the distance between their centres is $\mathrm{R}$. The distance from the centre of the earth where gravitational force will be zero is

(A)
$\frac{9 \mathrm{R}}{10}$
(B)
$\frac{\mathrm{R}}{2}$
(C)
$\frac{\mathrm{R}}{81}$
(D)
$\frac{\mathrm{R}}{4}$
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