CHAPTER 2 : KINEMATICS OF LINEAR MOTION

A. OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

1. A piece of rock slides on the surface of ice and travels a distance,

s in time, t under uniform acceleration. Which of the following 3. An object is shot vertically upward. While it is rising
will result in a straight line graph?. A. velocity and acceleration are both upward.
B. velocity and acceleration are both downward.
A. s against t C. velocity is upward and acceleration is downward.
B. s against t2 D. velocity and acceleration are both decreasing in magnitude.
s
C. t against t2 4. A ball which has been dropped vertically downward on to the
s
floor rebounds upward. If the direction of the velocity is
D. t against t considered as negative when the ball is moving downward, which
2. An object is moving with a uniform acceleration of 5 m s -2. A of the following graphs shows the variation of velocity with time?.
displacement-time graph showing the motion of this object has a
gradient which
A. increases with time.
B. decreases with time.
C. equal 5 m s-2.
D. equal 5 m s-1.

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a) Describe the motion of the object from B to C.

b) Calculate:
i) The acceleration in each part of the journey.
(Ans:5ms-2,0ms-2,-10ms-2,0ms-2, -12.5ms-2,0 s-2,5.5m s-2)

5. If the velocity versus time graph of an object is a straight line

making an angle of 30o with the time axis, the object is ii) Total distance travelled. (Ans: 305 m)
A. Moving with constant non-zero speed. iii) Total displacement. (Ans: 55 m)
B. Moving with constant non-zero acceleration. c) Sketch a graph of
C. At rest.
D. Moving with infinite speed. i) displacement (m) against time (s) for the journey.
ii) acceleration (m s-2) against time (s) for the journey.

2. An object moving at 40 m s-1 decelerates steadily at 2.8 m s-2.

B. STRUCTURE QUESTIONS Calculate
a) the distance travelled by the object before it comes to rest.
1. From the graph v-t shown in FIGURE 1. (Ans: 285.71 m)
b) the time it takes to stop.(14.29 s)
c) the distance it travelled during the last two seconds.
(Ans: 5.57 m)

3. A car accelerates from rest at a rate of 4.0 m s-2.

a) Calculate it velocity after 10 s?.(Ans: 40 m s-1)
b) How long does it take to travel 72 m?.(Ans: 6.0 s)
c) How far has it travelled after 8.0 s?. (Ans: 128 m)

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4. A student drops a stone from a second floor window, 15 m above c) time taken by the object to return back to its initial position.
the ground. (Ans: 5.1 s)
a) How long does it take for the stone to reach the ground?. d) the velocity just before the object reaches the ground.
(Ans:1.75s) (Ans: -34.84 m s-1)
e) time taken by the object to reaches the ground.(Ans: 6.1 s)
b) Calculate the velocity before it hits the ground.
f) Sketch a graph of :-
(Ans: -17.16 m s-1) i) displacement-time for the motion.
ii) velocity-time for the motion.
5. A ball is projected upward at t = 0 s, from a point roof 30 m above
the ground. The ball rises, then falls and strikes the ground as 7. A rocket is launched vertically upwards
shown in FIGURE 2. The initial velocity of ball is 87.20 m s -1. from the ground with initial velocity of 35
What is the velocity of the ball when it is 16 m above the ground? m s-1 as shown in FIGURE 3. It is
(Ans: -88.76 m s-1) accelerating at 5.0 m s-2. The engine
suddenly broke down at height h = 20 km
from the ground.

FIGURE 2

6. An object is thrown vertically upwards from a 30 m tall building

at a speed of 25 ms-1. The object misses the edge of the building
and fall to the ground. Determine
a) maximum height reached by the object from the ground.
(Ans:61.86m)
b) time taken by the object to reach the maximum height.

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 Neglecting air resistance calculate the a) How long is it in the air?. (Ans: 9.26 s)
a) velocity of the rocket at height 20 km. (Ans: 448.58 m s-1) b) How far from the base of the cliff the arrow lands?
b) maximum height achieved by the rocket.(Ans: 30.26 km) (Ans: 641.53 m)
c) flight time in air of the rocket.(Ans: 206.97 s) c) Calculate the speed of the arrow just before it hits the ground.
(Ans: 85.93 m s-1)
8. A golf ball struck with an initial velocity of 24 m s-1 at an angle of
30º to the ground as shown in FIGURE 4. How far it does travels 10. A ball is dropped from the edge of a table with initial horizontal
horizontally before striking the ground?.(Ans: 50.91 m) velocity of 5 m s-1. The height of the table is 1 m. Calculate the
a) time taken for the ball to reach the floor.(Ans: 0.45 s)
b) horizontal distance travel by the ball.(Ans: 2.25 m)
c) magnitude and direction of its velocity just before hit the
ground (Ans:6.67 m s-1, 41.4° below positive x axis)

FIGURE 4

9. In FIGURE 5, an archer standing on a cliff 50 m high shoots an

arrow at an angle of 30° above the horizon with a speed of 80
m s-1.