A uniform rod of mass 20 kg and length 5 m leans against a smooth vertical wall making an angle of 60° with it. The other end rests on a rough horizontal floor. The friction force that the floor exerts on the rod is (take g = 10 m/s^2)

NEET UG 2025 · Physics · Question 22

NEET 2025 Physics, question 22

Question 22 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Physics question from System of Particles and Rotational Motion. Its idea, Rotational Equilibrium, was asked twice, in 2021 and 2025, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q22 · Physics

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Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key

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Rotational Equilibrium, in other papers

NEET asked this idea twice, in 2021 and 2025. The other question below.

2021 Q 43 A uniform rod of length 200 cm and mass 500 g is balanced on a wedge placed at 40 cm mark. A mass of 2 kg is suspended from the rod at 20\dots Numerical \cdot Medium

Rotational Equilibrium: every question and how it was framed

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25 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.4 a paper. Rotational Motion alone had 21.

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Rotational Equilibrium, in other papers

System of Particles and Rotational Motion in ten years of NEET

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