A stone is dropped from rest from a height of on Earth

PHYSICS · Subjective · CBSE · Physics · Gravitation · Gravitation

Problem

A stone is dropped from rest from a height of 10 m10\,\text{m} on Earth. How many times longer will it take to reach the ground on the Moon, where the acceleration due to gravity is 16 gE\dfrac16\,g_{E}? Give your answer as a ratio tMoontEarth\dfrac{t_{\text{Moon}}}{t_{\text{Earth}}}.

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