Displacement, Velocity and Acceleration

1. A car starts from P and follows the path as shown in figure. Finally car stops at R. Distance travelled and
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displacement of the car if a = 7 m, b = 8 m and r = m? [Take p = ]
p 7

(A) 48m, 36m (B) 48m, 42m (C) 48m, 32m (D) 48m, 40m

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2. A body covers first part of its journey with a velocity of 2 m/s, next part with a velocity of
3 3
3 m/s and rest of the journey with a velocity 6m/s. The average velocity of the body will be
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(A) 3 m/s (B) m/s (C) m/s (D) m/s
3 3 3

3. A particle moves in straight line in same direction for 20 seconds with velocity 3 m/s and then moves with velocity
4 m/s for another 20 sec and finally moves with velocity 5 m/s for next 20 seconds. What is the average velocity of
the particle?
(A) 3 m/s (B) 4 m/s (C) 5 m/s (D) Zero

4. An athlete completes one round of a circular track of radius R in 40 sec. What will be his displacement at the end
of 2 min. 20 sec
(A) Zero (B)2R (C) 2 SR (D) 7 SR

5. A 150 m long train is moving with a uniform velocity of 45 km/h. The time taken by the train to cross a bridge
of length 850 meters is
(A) 56 sec (B) 68 sec (C) 80 sec (D) 92 sec

6. The displacement x of a particle along a straight line at time t is given by x = a0 + a1t + a2 t2. The acceleration
of the particle is
(A) a0 (B) a1 (C) 2a 2 (D) a2

7. If x denotes displacement in time t and x = a cos t, then the acceleration is–

(A) a cos t (B) –a cos t (C) a sin t (D) –a sin t

8. An object moves in a straight line. Its instantaneous velocity is negative and its instantaneous acceleration is
positive. Which of the following can be determined about the object’s motion–
(A) The object is speeding up (B) The object is slowing down
(C) The object will come to rest (D) The object will change direction
Uniform Acceleration Motion
1. A stone is thrown vertically upward with an initial velocity u from the top of a tower, reaches the ground
with a velocity 3u. The height of the tower is :
3u 2 4u 2 6u 2 9u2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
g g g g

2. A stone A is dropped from rest from a height h above the ground. A second stone B is simultaneously thrown
vertically up from a point on the ground with velocity v. The line of motion of both the stones is same. The value
of v which would enable the stone B to meet the stone A midway (at mid point) between their initial positions is:
(A) 2 gh (B) 2 gh (C) gh (D) 2 gh .

3. A ball thrown up in vacuum returns after 12 sec. Its position after five seconds will be same as after :
(A) 7 sec (B) 3 sec (C) 4 sec (D) 3.5 sec

4. A car travelling at 72 km/h decelerates uniformly at 2 m/s2. Calculate (a) the distance it goes before it stops,
(b) the time it takes to stop, and (c) the distance it travels during the first and third seconds.

5. A ball is dropped from a tower. In the last second of its motion it travels a distance of 15m. Find the height
of the tower. [take g = 10 m/sec2]

6. A body moving on straight line such that at t = 0, u = 5 m/s and acceleration a = –1 m/s2 , speed at
t =10 s is
(A) –5 m/s (B) 5 m/s (C) 10 m/s (D) –10 m/s

7. A car start moving with an acceleration 5 m/s 2 for 10 s then it decelerates with 2 m/s2. Find the total distance
travelled by the car till it stops
(A) 500 m (B) 625 m (C) 1125 m (D) 875 m

8. The velocity of a particle moving on straight line is given as v = 3t2 – 6t. The acceleration of particle when
body is at rest–
(A) Zero (B) 6 m/s2 (C) –6 m/s2 (D) Both (B) and (C)

Motion with variable acceleration

1. The acceleration of a moving body can be found from
(A) Area under velocity-time graph (B) Area under distance-time graph
(C) Slope of the velocity-time graph (D) Slope of distance-time graph

2. The velocity of a body depends on time according to the equation v = 20 + 0.1t2. The body is undergoing
(A) Uniform acceleration (B) Uniform retardation
(C) Non-uniform acceleration (D) Zero acceleration

3. The displacement of a particle is given by y = a + bt + ct 2 - dt 4 . The initial velocity and acceleration are respectively
(A) b, - 4 d (B) - b, 2c (C) b, 2c (D) 2c, - 4 d
 4. A particle moves along a straight line such that its displacement at any time t is given by
S = t3 – 6t2 + 3t + 4 metres
The velocity when the acceleration is zero is
(A) 3 ms–1 (B) –12 ms–1 (C) 42 ms–1 (D) –9 ms–1

5. The position x of a particle varies with time t as x = at2 – bt3. The acceleration of the particle will be zero at time
t equal to
a 2a a
(A) (B) (C) (D) Zero
b 3b 3b

6. Velocity of a body is given as a function of time as V = 15 + 2t2. The body is undergoing

(A) Uniform retardation (B) Uniform motion
(C) Non-uniform acceleration (D) Uniform acceleration

7. If the motion of a particle is governed by the equation x = 2t 3 – 3t2 + 2, then find the velocity of the particle
dx
at t = 2. Provided velocity is v =
dt
(A) 10 (B) 14 (C) 12 (D) 0

Graphical Analysis v(m/s)

1. For a particle moving along x-axis, velocity-time graph is as shown in

figure. Find the distance travelled and displacement of the particle? 10
t(s)
2

2. The variation of velocity of a particle with time moving along a

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Velocit y (m/s)

straight line is illustrated in the following figure. The distance travelled

by the particle in four seconds is 20

(A) 60 m (B) 55 m 10
(C) 25 m (D) 30 m 0
1 2 3 4
Time in second

3. A ball is thrown vertically upwards. Which of the following graph/graphs represent velocity-time graph of the ball
during its flight (air resistance is neglected)

v v v v

t t t t

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(A) i (B) ii (C) iii (D) iv

4. Which of the following graph correctly represents velocity-time relationship for a particle released from
rest to fall freely under gravity?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

5. Which one of the following curves do not represent motion in one dimension–

v v v v

(A) (B) (C) (D)

t t t
t

6. The velocity time (v – t) graph of a body is shown in figure. For the intervals OC & CB, the ratio of the distances
covered is :-
(A) 3 : 1 v
A
(B) 1 : 3

(C) h
3 :1
30° 60° t
(D) O C B
3:2

7. A body moves in a straight line along x-direction for which graph of v x vs x is shown in the graph. Find the
magnitude of acceleration of the body at x = 3m?

vx(m/s)
4

0 1 2 3 4 5 x(m)

(A) 2 (B) 0 (C) 4 (D) –2

 SINGLE CHOICE CORRECT QUESTIONS

1. A particle is moving in x–y–plane at 2 m/s along x–axis, 2 seconds later, its velocity is 4 m/s in a direction
making 60° with positive x–axis. Its average acceleration for this period of motion is:
(A) 5 m/s2 , along y–axis (B) 3 m/s2, along y–axis
(C) 5 m/s2, along at 60° with positive x–axis (D) 3m/s2, at 60° with positive x–axis.

2. The coordinates of a moving particle at time t are given by x = ct2 and y = bt2. The speed of the particle is given
by (c and b are constants) :

(A) 2t( c + b) (B) 2t c2 - b2 (C) t c2 + b2 (D) 2t c2 + b2

3. A balloon is going upwards with a velocity 12 m s–1. It release a packet when it is at a height of 65 m from the
ground. How much time the packet will take to reach the ground if g = 10 m s–2 ?
(A) 1 s (B) 2 s (C) 4 s (D) 5 s

4. A particle initially at rest moves along x-axis. It is subjected to an acceleration which varies with time according
to the equation : a = 2t + 5. Its velocity after 2 second will be
(A) 9 m s–1 (B) 12 m s–1 (C) 14 m s–1 (D) 18 m s–1

5. A, B, C and D are points in a vertical line such that AB = BC = CD. If a body falls from rest from A, then the
times of descend through AB, BC and CD are in the ratio :
(A) 1 : 2 : 3 (B) 2 : 3 :1
(C) 3 :1: 2 (D) 1 : ( 2 – 1) : ( 3 – 2)

6. A particle is projected vertically upward and it reaches the maximum height H in T seconds. The height
of the particle at any time t (t > T) will be :
1 g
(A) H - g(t - T)2 (B) g(t - T)2 (C) H - g(t - T)2 (D) (t - T)2
2 2

7. With what speed should a body be thrown upwards so that the distances traversed in 5th second and 6th second
are equal ?
(A) 58.4 m/s (B) 49 m/s (C) 98 m/s (D) 98 m/s

8. A particle is projected vertically upwards from a point A on the ground. It takes t1 time to reach a point B but
it still continues to move up. If it takes further t2 time to reach the ground from point B then height of point B
from the ground is :
1 1 1
g ( t1 + t2 ) g ( t1 + t2 )
2 2
(A) (B) gt1t2 (C) (D) gt1 t2
2 8 2

9. The velocity – time graph of a linear motion is shown in

figure. The displacement & distance after 8 sec. is :

(A) 5 m, 19m (B) 16 m,22m

(C) 8 m,19m (D) 6 m, 5m

10. Initially car A is 10.5 m ahead of car B. Both start moving at time t=0 in the same
direction along a straight line. The velocity time graph of two cars is shown in
figure. The time when the car B will catch the car A, will be :
(A) t = 21 sec (B) t = 2 5 sec
(C) 20 sec (D) None of these

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11. The displacement x of a body varies with time t as x = t - 16t + 2 In what time that body comes to rest ? (x
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is measured in metre and t in second).
(A) 6 s (B) 12 s (C) 18 s (D) 20 s

12. Which of the following velocity–time graph shows a realistic situation for a body in motion :

(A) (B) (C) (D)

13. Two balls are dropped to the ground from different heights. One ball is dropped 2 s after the other but they both
strike the ground at the same time, 5 s after the first was dropped. The difference in the heights at which they
were dropped is (Given : g = 10 m s-2)
(A) 10 m (B) 20 m (C) 40 m (D) 80 m

14. The acceleration–time graph of a particle moving along a straight line is

as shown in figure. At what time the particle acquires its initial velocity?
(A) 12 sec
(B) 5 sec
(C) 8 sec
(D) 16 sec

y
15. A man moves in x-y plane along the path shown. At what point is his average
velocity vector is in the same direction as his instaneous velocity vector. The
man starts from point P. C
(A) A P
B D
(B) B
(C) C A
(D) D x

v/ms–1
16. The variation of velocity of a particle moving along a straight line is
shown in figure. The distance travelled by the particle in 12s is 5

(A) 37.5 m (B) 32.5 m 0 t/s

2 4 6 8 10 12 14
(C) 35.0 m (D) none of these –2.5
–5

17. A particle starts from the origin and moves along the X-axis such that the velocity at any instant is given by
(4t3 – 2t), where t is in second and velocity is in ms –1. What is the acceleration of the particle when it is 2 m from
the origin?
(A) 10 m s–2 (B) 12 m s–1 (C) 22 m s–2 (D) 28 m s–2
18. A particle moves along a straight line OX. At a time t (in seconds) the distance X (in metres) of the particle from
O is given by X = 40 + 12t – t3. How long would the particle travel before coming to rest for a moment?
(A) 24 m (B) 40 m (C) 56 m (D) 16 m

19. The position of a particle moving in the xy-plane at any time t is given by x = (3t2 – 6t) metres, y = (t2 – 2t)
metres. Select the correct statement about the moving particle from the following
(A) The acceleration of the particle is zero at t = 0 second
(B) The velocity of the particle is zero at t = 0 second
(C) The velocity of the particle is zero at t = 1 second
(D) The velocity and acceleration of the particle are never zero

20. The acceleration 'a' in m/s2 of a particle is given by a = 3t2 + 2t + 2 where t is the time. If the particle starts out
with a velocity u = 2 m/s at t = 0, then the velocity at the end of 2 second is
(A) 12 m/s (B)18 m/s (C) 27 m/s (D) 36 m/s

21. The displacement of a particle starting from rest (at t = 0) is given by s = 6t2 – t3. The time in seconds at which
the particle will attain zero velocity again, is
(A) 2 (B)4 (C) 6 (D) 8

(3t - 6)2
22. The relation x = describes the position of a particle in one direction where x is in metres and t in sec.
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The magnitude of displacement, when velocity is zero, is
(A) 24 metres (B) 12 metres (C) 5 metres (D) Zero

23. A stone is dropped into a well in which the level of water is h below the top of the well. If v is velocity of
sound, the time T after which the splash is heard is given by :

2h h 2h h h 2h
(A) T = 2h/v (B) T = + (C) T = + (D) T = +
g v g 2v 2g v

24. A particle starts from rest with uniform acceleration a. Its velocity after n seconds is v. The displacement
of the body in the last two seconds is :
2v(n - 1) v(n - 1) v(n + 1) 2v(2n + 1)
(A) (B) (C) (D)
n n n n

25. A particle moving with a constant acceleration from A to B in the straight line AB has velocities u and v at A
and B respectively. If C is the mid-point of AB then the velocity of particle while passing C will be :

æ 1 1ö
2
v +u 2
v +u v -u çv + u÷
(A) (B) (C) (D) è ø
2 2 2 2

26. The acceleration of a particle is increasing linearly with time t as bt . The particle starts from the origin with an
initial velocity v 0 The distance travelled by the particle in time t will be

1 2 1 3 1 3 1 3
(A) v 0 t + bt (B) v 0 t + bt (C) v 0 t + bt (d) v 0 t + bt
3 3 6 2
4
27. Velocity-time (v-t) graph for a moving object is shown in the figure. Total v(m/s)
displacement of the object during the time interval when there is non-zero 3
acceleration and retardation is 2
(A) 60 m (B) 50 m 1
(C) 30 m (D) 40 m 0
10 20 30 40 50 60
t(sec)
28. The figure shows a velocity-time graph of a particle moving along a straight
line, The correct displacement-time graph of the particle is shown as :

x
(m) x
(m)
(A) (B)

0
2 4 6 8 t(s) 0
2 4 6 8 t(s)

x
(m) x
(m)

(C) (D)
0
2 4 6 8 t(s) 0
2 4 6 8 t(s)

29. A particle starts from rest and moves along a straight line with constant acceleration. The variation of velocity v
with displacement S is :

(A) (B) (C) (D)

30. A ball is thrown vertically upwards. Which of the following plots represents the speed-time graph of the ball
during its height if the air resistance is not ignored. (Air resistance force is uniform and acts opposite to velocity).
Speed

Speed

Speed

Speed

(A) (B) (C) (D)

Time Time Time Time