JEE Main & Advanced Physics Simple Harmonic Motion Question Bank Simple Pendulum

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    The mass and diameter of a planet are twice those of earth. The period of oscillation of pendulum on this planet will be (If it is a second's pendulum on earth)  [IIT 1973; DCE 2002]

    A)            \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\] sec 

    B)            \[2\sqrt{2}\]sec

    C)            2 sec                                        

    D)            \[\frac{1}{2}\]sec

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

                       As we know \[g=\frac{GM}{{{R}^{2}}}\]                    \[\Rightarrow \] \[\frac{{{g}_{\text{earth}}}}{{{g}_{\text{planet}}}}=\frac{{{M}_{e}}}{{{M}_{p}}}\times \frac{R_{\rho }^{2}}{R_{e}^{2}}\Rightarrow \frac{{{g}_{e}}}{{{g}_{p}}}=\frac{2}{1}\]                    Also \[T\propto \frac{1}{\sqrt{g}}\Rightarrow \frac{{{T}_{e}}}{{{T}_{p}}}=\sqrt{\frac{{{g}_{p}}}{{{g}_{e}}}}\Rightarrow \frac{2}{{{T}_{p}}}=\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}\]            \[\Rightarrow \] \[{{T}_{p}}=2\sqrt{2}\,\sec \].


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