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Assignment - Vectors - Session-1 - Answer

This document contains a 12 question quiz on vectors and their properties. Questions cover topics like identifying scalar and vector quantities, determining the components and direction of vectors, and calculating vector quantities like acceleration. Correct answers are provided along with short explanations of the reasoning. The quiz assesses understanding of basic vector concepts like magnitude, direction, and how to decompose vectors into orthogonal components.

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Assignment - Vectors - Session-1 - Answer

This document contains a 12 question quiz on vectors and their properties. Questions cover topics like identifying scalar and vector quantities, determining the components and direction of vectors, and calculating vector quantities like acceleration. Correct answers are provided along with short explanations of the reasoning. The quiz assesses understanding of basic vector concepts like magnitude, direction, and how to decompose vectors into orthogonal components.

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Vectors

Session Assignment – 1
Topics: Class: 11
Measurement

1. Select the quantity that is not a vector.


(a) Acceleration
(b) Velocity
(c) Volume
(d) Force
Answer: (c)
Solution:
Volume is a scalar quantity

2. Which of the following is a vector quantity?


(a) Work
(b) Power
(c) Momentum
(d) Pressure
Answer: (d)
Solution:
Direction need to be specified only for momentum (in these options)

3. If A  B then which of the following is correct?


(a) Aˆ  Bˆ
(b) A  – B
(c) A – Bˆ  Bˆ – A
(d) A  B  Aˆ  Bˆ
Answer: (a)
Solution:
Vectors are equal only when their magnitudes as well as directions are equal.

4. Position of a particle in a rectangular coordinate system is (1, –2, 7). Then its position
vector will be
(a) iˆ  2 ˆj  7 kˆ
(b) iˆ – 2 ˆj  7 kˆ
(c) 7iˆ – 2 ˆj  kˆ
(d) 3iˆ  3 ˆj  3kˆ
Answer: (b)
Solution:
1, –2 and 7 represent the x, y and z components respectively.
 1 ˆ 1 ˆj  is a
5. The expression  i– 
 2 2 
(a) Unit vector
(b) Null vector
(c) Vector of magnitude 2
(d) Scalar
Answer: (a)
Solution:
Magnitude of this vector is unity

6. A force of 100N is acting on a body and its component along X-axis is 50 N. Find the
vertical component of force
(a) 50 N
(b) 100 N
(c) 50 3 N
(d) 80 N
Answer: (c)
Solution:
100  502  x2  x2  7500  x  50 3

7. A force of 10 N acts on a particle placed on an incline along a direction making an angle


of 30° with the normal to the plane. The component of force along the normal is:
(a) 10 N
(b) 5 N
(c) 3 N
(d) 5 3 N
Answer: (d)
Solution:
F cos 30  10  cos 30  5 3N

8. The angle made by the vector A  iˆ – ˆj with x-axis is


(a) –90°
(b) –45°
(c) –22.5°
(d) –30°
Answer: (b)
Solution:
Acute angle in the fourth quadrant.

9. If A  3iˆ – 4 ˆj  5kˆ the direction of cosines of the vector A are


3 2 1
(a) , – and
50 25 10
3 2 2 1
(b) ,– and
5 2 5 2
2 2 2 2
(c) , 0 and
5 5
3 2 2 1
(d) , and
5 2 5 2
Answer: (b)
Solution:
A  32  (–4) 2  52  50  5 2
Ax 3 Ay 4 2 2 Az 5 1
 ; – – ;  
A 5 2 A 5 2 5 A 5 2 2

10. If a body has a velocity such that, vx, vy and vz are respectively, 1 m/s, –1 m/s and 1 m/s,
then the angle made by its unit vector with the x – axis is:
1
(a) cos –1
3
(b) 0°
1
(c) cos –1
3
(d) 60°
Answer: (c)
Solution:
vx 1 1
cos    
vx2  v y2  vz2 12  (–1)2  12 3
11. A boy runs around a park and completes exactly 5 rounds. The track around the park is 400
m. The displacement of the boy is a:
(a) vector with magnitude 400 m
(b) null vector
(c) vector with magnitude 2000 m
(d) unit vector
Answer: (b)
Solution:
Displacement is zero as all the rounds are completed

12. The acceleration of a body in motion at an instant is 5 m/s2 making an angle 30° with the
y-axis. The instantaneous unit vector of this acceleration is:
(a) iˆ
(b) j
(c) k̂
(d) 1 m/s2, making an angle 30° with the y-axis
Answer: (b)
Solution:
Unit vector corresponding to a vector will be in the same direction as the vector

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