FIRST PU PHYSICS MOST IMPORTANT NUMERICALS

Chapter 4: Motion in a plane

1. A cricket ball is thrown at a speed of 56 ms–1 in a direction 30° above the horizontal. Calculate (a) the
maximum height, (b) the time taken by the ball to return to the same level, and (c) the distance from
the thrower to the point where the ball returns to the same level. (g = 9.8 ms-2)
2. A football player kicks a ball at an angle of 30o to the horizontal with a velocity of 15ms -1. Assuming
that ball travels in a vertical plane. Calculate a) maximum height b) time of flight c) the horizontal
range. (d) the velocity with which it hits the ground at end of its flight (e) velocity at the highest point
and time taken to reach that point. (g = 9.8 ms-2)
3. A football player kicks a ball at a distance 10m from a vertical pole at an angle of 45 o. The ball just
clears the tip of the pole and falls at a distance of 10m on the other side. Determine the height of the
vertical pole. (g = 9.8 ms-2)
4. The ceiling of a long hall is 25m high. What is the maximum horizontal distance that a ball thrown
with a speed of 40 ms-1 can go without hitting the ceiling of the hall?
(g = 9.8 ms-2)
5. A cricketer can throw a ball to a maximum horizontal distance of 100 m. How much high above the
ground can the cricketer throw the same ball? (g = 9.8 ms-2)
6. A stone tied to the end of a string 80 cm is whirled in a horizontal circle with constant speed. If the
stone makes 14 revolutions in 26 s, then what is the magnitude and direction of the force on the stone?

Chapter 6: Work, Energy and Power

1. A car weighing 900 kg moving with a velocity 20 ms-1 is uniformly accelerated with an acceleration of
20 ms-2 for 10 s. Calculate the work done and the force required to accelerate the car
2. A bullet of mass 40 g enters a block of wood with a velocity of 60 ms-1 and penetrates to a depth of
60cm. Calculate the average resistive force of the wood to the penetration of the bullet.
3. A bullet of mass 15g hits a metal plate of thickness 10cm with a velocity of 400ms -1 and emerges from
it with a velocity of 260 ms-1. Find (i) work done (ii) the average resistance offered by the plate to the
motion of bullet.
4. A pump on the ground floor of a building pumps water to fill a tank of volume 30 m3 in 15 minutes. If
the tank is 40 m above the ground and efficiency of the pump is 30%, how much electrical power is
consumed by the pump? (Density of water = 1000 kgm–3, g = 9.8 ms-2)
5. A man weighing 60 kg climbs to the top of a building 100 m tall in 6 minute. Calculate the work done
by the man and his power. (g = 10 ms-2)

Chapter 7: Systems of Particles and Rotational motion

1. A solid cylinder of mass 20 kg rotates about its axis with angular speed 100 rads -1. The radius of the
cylinder is 0.25 m. What is the kinetic energy associated with the rotation of the cylinder? What is the
magnitude of angular momentum of the cylinder about its axis?
2. The angular speed of a motor wheel is increased from 1200 rpm to 3120 rpm in 16 seconds. (i) What is
its angular acceleration, assuming the acceleration to be uniform? (ii) How many revolutions does the
engine make during this time?
3. The moment of inertia of a grind stone about its axis of rotation is 25 kgm2. Starting from rest it
acquires a speed of 120 rpm in 10 s. Find the torque acting on it.
4. Weighs of 10 kg and 15 kg are suspended from the ends of a light rod 5 m long. At which point must
the rod be suspended by a string to keep it horizontal?
5.
A metre stick is balanced on a knife edge at its centre. When two coins, each of mass 5g are put one on
top of the other at the 12.0 cm mark, the stick is found to be balanced at 45cm. What is the mass of the
metre stick?
Chapter 11: Thermal properties of matter
1. A brass wire of 1.8 m long at 300 K temperature is held stretched between two rigid supports. If the
wire is cooled to a temperature of 234 K, then what is the tension developed in the wire if its radius 1
mm? [Given: Coefficient of linear expansion of brass = b = 2 x 10-5 K-1, Young’s modulus of brass =
Yb = 0.91 x 1011 Pa]
2. In an experiment on specific heat of a metal, a 0.20 kg block of the metal at 150oC is dropped in a
copper calorimeter (of water equivalent 0.025 kg) containing 150 cm3 of water at 27oC. The final
temperature is 40oC. Compute the specific heat of the metal. If heat losses to the surroundings are not
negligible, is your answer greater or smaller than the actual value for the specific heat of the metal.
Specific heat of water = 4180Jkg–1K–1, density of water = 1000 kgm-3
3. A copper block of mass 2.5 kg is heated in a furnace to a temperature of 500oC and then placed on a
large ice block. What is the maximum amount of ice that can melt? (Specific heat of copper = 390 Jkg – 1
K – 1, heat of fusion of water = 335 kJkg–1)
4. When 0.15 kg of ice of 0oC mixed with 0.30 kg of water at 50oC in a container, the resulting
temperature is 6.7oC. Calculate the heat of fusion of ice. (Cwater = 4186 Jkg-1 K-1)
5. Calculate the heat required to convert 3 kg of ice at -12o C kept in a calorimeter to steam at 100oC at
atmospheric pressure. Given specific heat capacity of ice = 2100 J kg-1 K-1, specific heat capacity of
water = 4186 J kg-1 K-1, latent heat of fusion of ice = 3.35  105 J kg-1 and latent heat of steam = 2.256
 106 J kg-1.
6. A metal cylinder of length 0.628 m having diameter 0.04 m has one end in boiling water at 100oC and
other end in melting ice. Calculate the amount of ice melted in one hour. Given thermal conductivity of
metal cylinder is 378 Wm-1K-1. Latent heat of fusion of ice = 3.36  105 J kg-1
7. The lower surface of a cubical slab of stone of side 0.1 m is exposed to steam at 373 K and thick layer
of ice covers the upper surface and the other faces are covered by non-conducting material. If in 40
minutes 0.15 kg of ice melts then find the thermal conductivity for the stone. (Give latent heat of ice =
336  103 Jkg-1)
8. A thermocole ice box is a cheap and efficient method for storing small quantities of cooked food in
summer in particular. A cubical icebox of side 30 cm has a thickness of 5.0 cm. If 4.0 kg of ice is put
in the box, estimate the amount of ice remaining after 6 hour. The outside temperature is 45 oC, and
coefficient of thermal conductivity of thermocole is 0.01 Wm–1K–1.
[Heat of fusion of ice = 335 kJkg–1]
9. A pan
manfilled
is inside a room
with hot food where the air
cools from 94 temperature
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the room
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Wm
10. A 10 kW drilling machine is used to drill a bore
-2 -4
K in) a small aluminium block of mass 8.0 kg. How much is the rise in
temperature of the block in 2.5 minutes, assuming 50% of power is used up in heating the machine itself or lost to
the surroundings. Specific heat of aluminium
Chapter 15: Waves
1. Progressive wave is represented by equation y = 0.002 sin (20x – 7t), where x, y are in metre and t is in
second. Find (a) period (b) frequency (c) Wavelength and (d) Wave velocity of progressive wave.
2. Progressive wave is represented by equation y = 2sin(40t – 2x), where x, y are in metre and t is in
second. Find (a) frequency (b) Wavelength and (c) Wave velocity of progressive wave
3. A wave travelling along a string is described by, y (x, t) = 0.005 sin (80.0 x – 3.0 t), in which the
numerical constants are in SI units. Calculate (a) amplitude (b) wavelength (c) period (d) frequency of
the wave. Also, calculate the displacement y of the wave at a distance x = 30.0 cm and time t = 20 s?
4. A policedropped
A stone man blows a whistle
from the top of aoftower
frequency 300
of height Hzm as
300 a car speeds
splashes into the past
waterhim
of awith
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velocity of 36
the base of the
tower. When is the splash heard at the top given that the speed of sound in air is 340 m
kmph. Find the change in the frequency as heard by the driver of the car just as he passes the police
man.
5. ATwo pipes
train of same
standing diameter,
at the one closed
outer signal at one end
of a railway and blows
station other open at both
a whistle of the ends are
frequency 0.75
400 Hzminand
still air.
1.56 m long when sounded together 17 beats are heard in 4s. Calculate their frequencies.
(i) What is the frequency of whistle for a platform observer when the train (a) approaches the platform
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from the platform with the speed of 10 ms -1. ii) What is the speed of
the sound in each case? [The speed of sound in still air = 340 ms-1]
6.1. AAgeyser heats water
train moving at a flowing
speed of at the
30 rate
ms-1ofapproaches
3.0 litres pera minute
station from
and 27 °C to a77horn
sounds °C. of frequency 500 Hz.
IfWhat
the geyser
is the apparent frequency of the horn as heard by a man on the platformif as the train approaches
operates on a gas burner, what is the rate of consumption of the fuel
its heat of combustion is 4.0 × 104 J/g ?
him. Calculate the change in frequency as heard by the man. Speed of sound = 340 ms-1 [2018]
7.2. An
Two electric
pipesheater
of same supplies heat to
diameter, onea system
closed at aone rateend
of 100W. If system
and other open performs
at both thework at aare
ends rate0.75
of 75mjoules
and per
second. At what rate is the internal energy increasing?
1.56 m long when sounded together 17 beats are heard in 4s. Calculate their frequencies. [2013]
8.3. In
A changing
steel rodthe100statecmof along is clamped from
gas adiabatically at itsanmiddle.
equilibriumThestate
fundamental
A to another frequency
equilibriumofstate
longitudinal
B, an amount
of work equal to 22.3 J is done on the system. If the gas is taken from state
vibrations of the rod is given to be 2.53kHz. What is the speed of sound in steel? [2016] A to B via a process in which the net
heat absorbed by the system is 9.35 cal, how much is the net work done by the system in the latter case ?
(Take 1 cal = 4.19 J)