NEET UG 2020 · Physics · Question 160
NEET 2020 Physics, question 160
Question 160 of the NEET 2020 paper (code E1) is a Physics question from Laws of Motion. Its idea, Standard Atwood Machine, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q160 · Physics
Two bodies of mass 4 kg and 6 kg are tied to the ends of a massless string. The string passes over a pulley which is frictionless (see figure). The acceleration of the system in terms of acceleration due to gravity (g) is :
The figure, described in words
Atwood machine: fixed frictionless pulley with 4 kg block hanging on the left and 6 kg block hanging lower on the right.
- 1g
- 2g/2
- 3g/5Official answer
- 4g/10
Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Standard Atwood Machine
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Standard Atwood Machine: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Laws of Motion in ten years of NEET
20 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 1.9 a paper. Newton's Laws of Motion alone had 10.