PHYSICSPRACTICE ASSIGNMENT

CLASSXI
CHAPTER 3: MOTION IN A LINE

1. A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km away with a speed of 5 km/h. Finding
the market closed, he instantly turns and walks back home with a speed of 7.5 km/h. What is the
(a) magnitude of average velocity and
(b) average speed of the man over
the interval of time (i) 0 to 30 min, (ii) 0 to 50 min and (iii) 0 to 40 min?
[(i) 5km/h, 5km/h (ii) 0, 6 km/h (iii) 1.875 km/h, 5.625 km/h]
2. On a 60 km track, a train travels the first 30 km with a uniform speed of 30 km/h. How fast must the
train travel the next 30 km or so as to average 40 km/h for the entire trip? [60 km/h]
3. A train moves with a speed of 30 km/h in the first 15 min, with another speed of 40 km/h the next 15
min and then with a speed of 60 km/h in the last 30 min. Calculate the average of the train during the
journey. [47.5 km/h]
4. The displacement x of a particle varies with time t as x =4t
2
15t +25. Find the position, velocity and
acceleration of the particle at t=0. When will the velocity of the particle become zero? Can we call the
motion of the particle as one with uniform acceleration? [25m, -15m/s, 8 m/s
2
, 1.875 s, Yes]
5. The velocity of a particle is given by the equation v =2t
2
+5 cm/s. Find
(i) the change in velocity of the particle during the time interval between t=2s and t=4s
(ii) the average acceleration during the same interval and
(iii) the instantaneous acceleration at t=4s. [ 24 cm/s, 12 cm/s
2
, 16 cm/s
2
]
6. A car moving along a straight highway with speed of 126 km/h is brought to stop within a distance of
200 m. what is the retardation of the car? How long does it take for the car to stop? [3.06 m/s
2
, 11.43 s]
7. On a foggy day two drivers spot each other when they are just 80m apart. They are travelling at 72
km/h and 60 km/h respectively. Both of them applied brakes retarding their cars at the rate of 5 m/s
2
.
Determine whether they avert collision or not. [ Yes]
8. A body covers 20 m in 7
th
second and 24 m in 9
th
second. How much distance will it cover in 15
th

seconds? [36 m]
9. A body covers 12 m in 2
nd
second and 20 m in 4
th
second. How much distance will it cover in 4 seconds
after the fifth second? [136 m]
10. A car moving with a speed of 50 km/h can be stopped by brakes after atleast 6 m. what will be the
minimum stopping distance, if the same car is moving at a speed of 100km/h? [24.1 m]
11. A stone falls from a cliff and travels 25 m in the last second before it reaches the ground at the foot of
the cliff. Find the height of the cliff. Take g =10 m/s
2
. [ 45 m]
12. A ball thrown up is caught by the thrower after 4 s. How high did it go and with what velocity was it
thrown? How far was it below the highest point 3s after it was thrown? Take g =10 m/s
2
.
[ 20 m/s, 20 m, 5 m]
13. A food packet is released from a helicopter which is rising steadily at 2 m/s. After 2 s (i) what is the
velocity of the packet? (ii) How far is it below the helicopter? Take g =10 m/s
2
. [18 m/s, 20 m]
14. Two balls are thrown simultaneously, A vertically upwards with a speed of 20 m/s from the ground and
B vertically downwards from a height of 40 m with the same speed and along the same line of motion.
At what points do the balls collide? Take g =10 m/s
2
. [ after 1s at 15 m from ground]
15. A tennis ball is dropped on to the floor from a height of 4m. It rebounds to a height of 3 m. If the ball
was in contact with the floor for 0.01 sec, what was the average acceleration during contact? g =10
m/s
2
. [1669 m/s
2
]
16. A body falling from rest was observed to fall through 78.4 m in 2 sec. Find how long had it been falling
before it was observed? Take g =9.8 m/s
2
. [3 second]
17. A ball is dropped from the roof of a tower of height h. The total distance covered by it in the last
second of its motion is equal to the distance covered by it in the first 3s. What is the value of h? Take g
=10 m/s
2
. [125 m]
18. Two parallel rail tracks run north south. Train A moves north with a speed of 54 km/h and train B
moves south with a speed of 90 km/h. what is the
(i) Relative velocity of B w.r.t A?
(ii) Relative velocity of ground with respect to B?
(iii) Velocity of a monkey running on the roof of the train A against its motion with a velocity of 18 km/h
with respect to train A as observed by a man standing on the ground?
[ - 40 m/s, 25 m/s, 10 m/s]
19. Two trains A and B of length 400 m each are moving on two parallel tracks with a uniform speed of 72
km/h in the same direction, with A ahead of B. The driver of B decides to overtake A, and accelerates
by 1 m/s
2
. If after 50 s, the guard of B just brushes past the driver of A, what was the original distance
between them? [ 1250 m]
20. The speed of motor launch with respect to still water is 7 m/s and the speed of stream is 3 m/s. when
the launch began traveling upstream, a float was dropped from it. The launch traveled 4.2 km
upstream, turned about and caught up with the float. After what time will the launch reach the float?
[ 35 min]
21. A police van moving on a highway with a speed of 30 km/h fires a bullet at a thiefs car speeding away
in the same direction with a speed of 192 km/h. If the muzzle speed of the bullet is 150 m/s, with what
speed does the bullet hit the thiefs car? [105 m/s]
22. A balloon is ascending at the rate of 14m/s at a height of 98 m above the ground, when a packet is
dropped from it. After how much time and with what velocity does it reach the ground?
[6.12 s, 46 m/s]
23. From the top of a tower 100m in height a ball is dropped and at the same time another ball is projected
vertically upwards from the ground so that it reaches just the top of the tower. At what height do the
balls pass each other? [ 75 m from the ground]
24. A parachutist bails out from an aero plane and after dropping through a distance of 40 m; he opens the
parachute and decelerates at the rate of 2m/s
2
. If he reaches the ground with a velocity of 2m/s, how
long is he in the air? At what height did he bail out from the plane? [15.8 s, 235 m]
25. A ball is dropped from a bridge 122.5 m above a river. After the ball has been falling for 2s, a second
ball is thrown straight down after it what must be its initial velocity so that both hit the water at the
same time? [26.1 m/s]