MOTION UNDER GRAVITY

1. A body is dropped from the top of a tower and falls freely. The distance covered by it during first
n seconds is directly proportional to

(A) n2 (B) n (C) 2n –1 (D) 2n2 – 1

2. Two balls of different masses ma and mb are dropped from two different heights, viz, a and b.
The ratio of times taken by the two to drop through these distances is

(A) a : b (B) b : a (C) a: b (D) a2 : b2

3. A ball is released from the top of a tower of height h. It takes time T to reach the ground. What
is the position of the ball after time T/3 ?

h 7h
(A) m from the ground (B) m from the ground
9 9

8h 17h
(C) m from the ground (D) m from the ground
9 18

4. A body is released from the top of a tower of height H m. After 2 seconds it is stopped and then
instantaneously released. What will be its height after next 2 seconds?

(A) (H – 5)m (B) (H – 10)m (C) (H– 20) m (D) (H – 40) m

5. A stone is dropped from the top of a tower of height h. After 1 second another stone is dropped
from the balcony 20 m below the top. Both reach the bottom simultaneously. What is the value
of h? take g = 10 ms–2.

(A) 3125 m (B) 312.5 m (C) 31.25 m (D) 25.31 m

6. A person is throwing two balls into the air one after the other. He throws the second ball when
first ball is at the highest point. If he is throwing the balls every second, how high do they rise?

(A) 5 m (B) 3.75 m (C) 2.50 m (D) 1.25 m

(A) 2h = H (B) 3h = H (C) 4h = H (D) 5h = H

8. A body dropped from the top of a tower covers a distance 7x in the last second of its journey,
where x is the distance covered in first second. How much time does it take to reach the
ground?

(A) 3 s (B) 4 s (C) 5 s (D) 6 s

9. The distances moved by a freely falling body (starting from rest) during 1st, 2nd, 3rd, …..………., nth
second of its motion are proportional to

(A) even numbers (B) odd numbers

(C) all integral numbers (D) squares of integral numbers

10. A wooden block is dropped from the top of a cliff 100 m high and simultaneously a bullet of
mass 10 g is fired from the foot of the cliff upwards with a velocity of 100 m/s. The bullet and
wooden block will meet after a time

(A) 10 s (B) 0.5 s (C) 1 s (D) 7 s

11. A body falls freely from rest. It covers as much distance in the last second of its motion as
covered in the first three seconds. The body has fallen for a time of

(A) 3 s (B) 5 s (C) 7 s (D) 9 s

12. A stone is dropped from a rising balloon at a height of 76 m above the ground and reaches the
ground in 6 seconds. What was the approximate velocity of the balloon when the stone was
dropped? (take g = 10 m/s2)

52 52
(A) m/s upwards (B) m/s downwards (C) 3 m/s (D) 9.8 m/s
3 3
13. A body is dropped from a height 39.2 m. After it crosses half distance, the acceleration due to
gravity ceases to act. The body will hit the ground with velocity (take g = 10 m/s2)

(A) 19.6 m/s (B) 20 m/s (C) 1.96 m/s (D) 196 m/s

14. A ball is thrown upwards with speed v from the top of a tower and it reaches the ground with
speed 3v. What is the height of the tower?

v2 2v 2 4v 2 8v 2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
g g g g

15. A ball is thrown from the top of a tower in vertically upward direction. Velocity at a point h m
below the point of projection is twice of the velocity at a point h m above the point of
projection. Find the maximum height reached by the ball above the top of tower.

5 4
(A) 2h (B) 3h (C)   h (D)   h
3 3

16. A juggler keeps on moving four balls in the air throwing the balls after regular intervals. When
one ball leaves his hand (speed = 20 ms–1) the position of other balls (height in m) will be (take g
= 10 m/s2)

(A) 10, 20, 10 (B) 15, 20, 15 (C) 5, 15, 20 (D) 5, 10, 20

17. An elevator in which a man is standing is moving upwards with a speed of 10 m/s. If the man
drops a coin from a height of 2.45 m from the floor of elevator, it reaches the floor of the
elevator after a time (g = 9.8 m/s2)

1 1
(A) 2s (B) s (C) 2 s (D) s
2 2

18. A body is projected upwards with a velocity u. It passes through a certain point above the
ground after t1. The time after which the body passes through the same point during the return
journey is

u  u   u2   u2 
(A)  − t12  (B) 2  − t1  (C)  − t1  (D)  2
− t1 
g  g   g  g 
19. A body is allowed to fall from a height of 100 m. If the time taken for the first 50 m is t 1 and for
the remaining 50 m is t2 then

(A) t1 = t2 (B) t1 > t2 (C) t1 < t2 (D)depends upon the mass

20. A parachutist drops first freely from an aero plane for 10 s and then parachute opens out. Now
he descends with a net retardation of 2.5 m/s2. If he bails out of the plane at a height of 2495 m
and g = 10 m/s2, his velocity on reaching the ground will be

(A) 5 m/s (B) 10 m/s (C) 15 m/s (D) 20 m/s

21. A ball is released from the top of a tower of height h meter. It takes T seconds to reach the
T
ground. What is the position of the ball at second?
3

8h 7h
(A) metre from the ground (B) metre from the ground
9 9

h 17h
(C) metre from the ground (D) metre from the ground
9 18

22. A parachutist after bailing out falls 50 m without friction. When parachute opens, it decelerates
at 2 m/s2. He reaches the ground with a speed of 3 m/s. At what height did he bail out?

(A) 111 m (B) 293 m (C) 182 m (D) 91 m

MOTION UNDER GRAVITY

1. A 2. C 3. C 4. D

5. C 6. A 7. C 8. B

9. B 10. C 11. B 12. A

13. A 14. C 15. C 16. B

17. B 18. B 19. B 20. A

21. A 22. B