MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (SINGLE OPTION CORRECT) A car starts from point A, travels on a straight road and stops at its destination B. The distance — time graph of this journey has the nature: [2008] d d (A) (8) t t d d (c) (D) t t A man throws a ball making an angle of 60° with the horizontal. He runs on a level ground and catches the ball. If he had thrown the ball with speed v, then his speed must be: [2008] Ay “ewe (C)2v Ow ‘An observer in a car P moving towards north with speed v observes that another car Q is moving towards east with the same speed v . The true velocity of Q is: [2009] (A) v towards east (8) v2 towards north - east (C) v towards south — east (0) vv2 towards south — west A body describes uniformly accelerated motion along a straight line. Which of the following displacement - time graphs shown represent the motion correctly? [2009] z 5 LZ. LS 0 ay s ts (vy) aunt) (A) (I) only (8) (1) and (IV) only (C) (I), (Ill) and (IV) only (D) (1), (I), (Ill) and (IV) all+ dana enaetaeeiitass itt casaeaes [2010] 5. ‘Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT? oe? 1 (A) If the net force on a body is zero, its velocity is oe aretant ‘and nonzero. \ (B) I the net force on a body is zero, its acceleration is COTTE (C) If the velocity of a body is constant, its acceleration 16 {D)A body may have a varying velocity yet a constant : are projected horizontally from the same 6. Two spheres having masses 10 9 and 25 g a7@ Proiecles NO tervals ty and ty height with velocities v; and vz and they fall ‘osc respectively. ; If the ratio v; : vais 1:3, the ratio ty :tz willbe (A) 10: 25 (B) 25:10 (cyts4 (0)1:3 7... A-stone is released from an elevator moving upwards with an acceleration a. The acceleration of the stone after the release is {2010} (A) a upwards. (8) (g - a) upwards. (C) (g -— a) downwards. 4D) g downwards. 8. An arrow shot vertically upwards loses its initial speed by 60% in 3 seconds. The maximum height reached by the arrow is (g = 9.8 ms™) [2011} ~TA) 122.5m (8)44.1m (C) 100 m (D) 45m 9. Aball is dropped from a height of 7.2 m. It bounces back to 3.2 m after striking the floor. The ball remains in contact with the floor for 20 ms. Given that g = 10 ms™, the average acceleration of the ball during the contact is [2011] (A) 100 ms (B) 200 ms* (C) 600 ms* (D) 1000 ms* 10. Two vectors of equal magnitude are inclined to each other at an angle 0. Keeping the direction of one of them fixed the other is rotated through an equal angle 6. Now, the resultant of these vectors has the same magnitude as each of the two vectors. [2011] (A) 90° (B) 30° (c)ase (0) 60° 11. A ball is projected at an angle of 45° with horizontal. In the absence of air resistance, the ball follows [2012] (A) Elliptical orbit (8) Sinusoidal path 4€) Parabolic path (D) Linear path 12. A boy is standing on a truck which is moving with 4 08} constant speed along a straight road. On a day ‘ ns whine is negligible, the boy throws a ball vertically up with some velocity. The Baie ity. ball comes {A) into boy's hand (B) behind the boy (C) in front of the boy (D) behind or in front of the boy de speed the truck and ball. Pending on the_43. A ball is thrown up vertically in still air with a velocity of 20 ms". ground. The velocity-time graph is (9 = 10 ms”). 2012) y @) t At 6) (0) t (C) ‘ ra234 spots A and B on the same bank of the river is 75 km. Speed 14. The distance between two at of the speed of the water current of of the boat in still water is twice as much as th. river. The boat travels in the river from A to B and retums back to the spot in 16 hr. What is the speed of boat in still water? [2012] (A) 12.5 km/h (B) 15 krvh (C) 16 kmh (D) 18 km/h 15. A particle accelerates with a constant acceleration ao and reaches a maximum velocity ‘and then decelerates with ay and comes to rest. The position time graph describing the situation is best represented by: [2013] Xinm 225, 175 / a % 7. @) a7 cas 70 30 60 70 90 tinsec. 10 30 60 70 90 tinsec16. 17. 18, 19. Co ©) 10 90 50 70 90 tineec. Which of the following situation is impossible? (A) A body having constant velocity and variable acceleration. (B) A body having zero velocity and non zero acceleration. (C) A body having constant acceleration and variable velocity. (D) A body having velocity and acceleration in opposite directions. Diagram shown trajectory of a cricket ball, [2013] The set of arrows which show the direction of the acceleration of ball at points P and Q respectively is @ | | () —7 ™N Ac) | | © ~~ ™N A particle starting from rest is moving with uniform acceleration in a straight line. The percentage increase of the displacement of the particle in 9" second compared to that in the immediate previous second is about [2014] (A) 8.3% (8) 20.6% (C) 13.3% (0) 24.5% A particle is moving along a straight line. Its velocity =~ time graph is as shown in the adjacent figure. Then i match the following: pe "Physical quantity | __ Remar [ (i) Acceleration at 4 sec Velocity at 4 second [ (ii) Direction of motion at 2] (Zero cond __ _ (A) (i) is (P) ; (il) is (q) and (ii) is (¢) (B) (i) is (7); (il) is (r) and (iii) is (p) (C) (i) is (q) ; Gi) is (r) and (ill) is (p) () (i) is (q) ; (il) is (p) and (ii) is (7) NGOMNSrPPEET RENE!20. Consider the following two statements’ [2014] ee 1) The direction of acceleration of a particle must be always same as that of veloci Statement 2: Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity. Choose the correct option (A) Statement (1) is correct while statement (2) is wrong (8) Statement (1) and (2) are correct (C) Statement (1) and (2) are wrong »4D) Statement (1) is wrong while statement (2) is correct 21. Which of the following graphs is correct for a particle moving in a circle of radius r at a ‘speed of v (where ‘a’ is magnitude of acceleration) ? (2015) i ‘4 (a) (8) (c) (0) 22. A particle moves along the x ~ axis according to the equation x=6t? where x is displacement in metres and t is time in seconds. Therefore [2015] (A) the acceleration of the particle is 6 ms? (B) the particle follows a parabolic path (C) each second the velocity of the particle changes by 9.8 ms” (0) the velocity of the particle is 6 ms“' att = 0.5 s 23. ‘A stone is thrown horizontally and follows the XYZ path as shown in the adjacent figure. The direction of the acceleration of the stone at point Yis AA) + (8) > ()sS (0) 4 24. — Abody thrown vertically up reaches a maximum height and returns back. Its acceleration is 12016} is 4A) downward during both ascent and descent (B) downward at all position except at the highest point, where it is zero. (C) upward during both ascent and descent (D) downward during ascent and upward during descenttime (8) resp’ ly fora 25. fx, v and t represent displacement (m), velocity (ms) ane ry best correlated 10 each certain particle then which pair of the following fig 017) other: oy y, W, . fe 7 Va L= Kw ae t Fig. Fig. 1 Fig. 0 Aig. Alani (8) land Ill 8 lendtv (D) none i From the taxi track it comes to the main jke-off irbus A340 is 288 km/hr. I 26. The take-off speod of Ame forthe final clearance from Air Trafic Control. The aircran aoa i erged within 5D seconds. Neglecting the effect ofthe wind direction eet Stat Heuid be the minimum length of main runway decided by civi i is ait take-off? [2017] ecgneors for this aircraft for a take- 6) 000 m : (c)2200 m (D) 2400 m i = i I are represented by Siti blocks at successive 0.20 — second time interval : i, 2 Tenumbered saaive in the figure below. The blocks are moving towards right. [2017] Block © prockd The accelerations of the blocks are related as follows: (A) acceleration of ‘a’ is greater than acceleration of ‘b’ . (B) acceleration of ‘a’ equals acceleration of ‘b’. Both accelerations are greater than Zero. (C) acceleration of ‘b’ is greater than acceleration of ‘a’ (D) acceleration of ‘a’ equals acceleration of ‘b’. Both accelerations are zero 28. A tiny ball of mass m is initially at rest at height H above a cake of uniform thickness h. At some moment the particle falls freely, touches the cake surface and then penetrates in it at such a constant rate that its speed becomes zero on just reaching the ground (bottom of the cake). Speed of the ball at the instant it touches the cake surface and its retardation inside the cake are respectively. [2018] H 19 ah endo( 1) 40) 5(9-¥) ong) h (©) 2gh and off.) (0) \2a(H=h) and ofr) st ‘CHIVE-2223-100.JS-PHYSICS] — >Cm ls 29. 30. Two particle P; and P, move towards origin O, along X and Y ~ axes at constant speeds u, and /? o uu respectively as shown in the figure. Att = 0, the " particles P; and P; are at distances a and b we respectively from ©. Then the instantaneous distance s between the two particles is given by the relation: P; (2018) ua (A) s=[a? +b? +(u? +ul)t? -2¢(au, +bu,)] (8) s=[a* +b? +(u? +u2)t -2t(bu, +au, | (0) s=[a' +b? +(u? +us)t?+2t(au, +bu,)]” (0) s=[a'—b' +(u +u)t? -2t(au, +bu,)]” A particle experiences constant acceleration for 20 s after staring from rest. If it travels a distance S; in the first 10 s and distance S; in the next 10 s, the relation between S; and S2 is: 2019) A) S2= 38; (B) S, = 3S, (C) S2= 2S; (0) S; = 10S, SORTASE NN Ae mE OR NRT ‘A body traveling along a straight line with a uniform acceleration has velocities 5 mis at a point A and 15 m/s at a point B respectively. If Mis the mid point of AB, then [2009] (A) the ratio of times taken by the body to cover distances MB and AM is [=] {B) the velocity at Mis 5V5m/s 5(V5 +1) (C) average velocity over AM is “> —m/ (D) the product of the acceleration and the distance AB is 100m? /s* The axes of a coordinate system Sz are inclined at an angle 0 to those of another coordinate system S;. The origins of both the systems are coinciding. A particle P, at rest in system Sy, starts from point (-2, 0) and travels along positive direction of X; axis with uniform acceleration of 1.25 mls* for 4s and stops. In system S2, particle P2, starts from rest form the origin and travels for 2 s along positive direction of X2 axis with uniform acceleration 5 m/s* and stops. If the final distance between P, and P2 is 6 m, then the angle between +Y, axis and +X. axis is [loaJs 2022) (A) 36.8° (8)53.2° (C) 106.8° (D) 126.8° oe