Assignment
1. An object travels 20 m in 5 sec and then another 40 m in 5 sec. What is the average speed of the object?
(a) 6 m/s (b) 2 m/s
(c) 12 m/s (d) 0 m/s
2.The numerical ratio of displacement to distance for a moving object is
(a) always less than 1 (b) always equal to 1
(c) always more than 1 (d) equal or less than 1
3.Area under a υelocity – time graph represents a physical quantity which has the unit
(а) m2 (b) m
3
(c) m (d) ms -1
4.Four cars A, B, C, and D are moving on a levelled road. Their distance versus time graphs is shown in the
adjacent figure. Choose the correct statement.
(a) Car A is faster than car D.
(b) Car B is the slowest.
(c) Car D is faster than car C.
(d) Car C is the slowest.
5. Name the instrument used to measure instantaneous speed of a vehicle
(a) Multimeter (b) Ammeter
(c) Speedometer (d) Accelerator
6. When a car driver starts from rest and acquires a speed of 40m/s in 20 seconds. What will be the
acceleration?
(a) + 2 m/s2 (b) − 2 m/s2
(c) 8 m/s2 (d) + 0.5 m/s2
7. Which of the following figures correctly represents uniform motion of a moving object?
8. According to the given velocity-time graph, the object
(a) is moving with uniform velocity
(b) has some initial velocity
(c) is moving uniformly with some initial velocity
(d) is at rest
9. The slope of velocity-time graph for constant velocity is:
(a) positive (b) negative
(c) zero (d) none of these
10. The SI unit of the quantity measured by the slope of velocity-time graph:
(a) m/s (b) m/s²
(c) ms (d) m/s³
11. Acceleration is a vector quantity, which indicates that its value
(a) Is always negative (b) Is always positive
(c) Is zero (d) Can be positive, negative or zero
Solve the following questions based on graphs:
1. What is the nature of the distance-time graphs for uniform and non-uniform motion of an object?
2. What can you say about the motion of an object whose distance-time graph is a straight line parallel
to the time axis?
3. What can you say about the motion of an object if its speed-time graph is a straight line parallel to the
time axis?
4. What is the quantity which is measured by the area occupied below the velocity-time graph?
5. Draw the velocity-time graph of a body moving with (a) uniform velocity (b) constant velocity.
Answer the following questions
1. A particle moves in a circle with O as centre and AO = OB = 5 cm, as radius, as shown in the figure. It
starts from A. Calculate:
(a) the distance covered, and
(b) the displacement, when it reaches B.
2. Difference between Distance, A body thrown vertically upwards reaches a maximum height. It then
reaches to ground. Calculate the distance travelled and the displacement.
3. Usha swims in a 90 m long pool. She covers 180 m in one minute by swimming from one end to the
other and back along the same straight path. Find the average speed and average velocity of Usha.
4. A car increases its speed from 20 km/h to 50 km/h in 10 seconds. What is its acceleration?
5. A moving train is brought to rest within 20 seconds by applying brakes. Find the initial velocity, if
the retardation due to brakes is 2 m/s2.
6. A scooter acquires a velocity of 36 km/h in 10 seconds just after the start. Calculate the acceleration
of the scooter.
7. A train starting from a railway station and moving with uniform acceleration attains a speed 40
km/h in 10 minutes. Find its acceleration.
8. A bus decreases its speed from 72 km/h to 54 km/h in 5 s. Find the acceleration of the bus.
9. An object travels 16 m in 4s and then another 16 m in 2s. What is the average speed of the object?
10. A person travels with a speed of 20 km/hr while going to market and while coming back travels
with a speed of 30 km/hr. What is the average speed of the entire trip?
