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Question Tutorial No: 03 SJ Physics

You have to complete one essay question before each online session. The question number (which you have
to complete before the session) will be informed through the group each week on every Wednesday.
Except for that one essay question each week, do not solve the other questions, as they will be done with
timing during the class.
As time management is one of the main goals of this class, to achieve it you have to solve the questions during
the online session with timing.
Make sure to have your logbook with you at all times during the session.

1. A car is travelling with constant velocity 24 ms-1, passes a tractor moving with velocity 10 ms-1.
Tractor has a constant acceleration 2 ms-2. How long will the tractor take to pass the car?

(1) 12 s (2) 14 s (3) 16 s

(4) 18 s (5) 20 s

2. Speed of the tractor when it passes the car in the above question is,
(1) 20 ms-1 (2) 28 ms-1 (3) 34 ms-1
(4) 38 ms-1 (5) 40 ms-1

3. A car starting from rest, has a constant acceleration of 3 ms-2 for some time and then has a constant
retardation of 2 ms-2 for some time and finally comes to rest. The total time taken is 15 s. the
maximum velocity of car during its motion is,
(1) 12 ms-1 (2) 15 ms-1 (3) 18 ms-1
(4) 21 ms-1 (5) 9 ms-1

4. A body, starting from rest, moves in a straight line with a constant acceleration a for a time interval
t during which it travels a distance s1. It continues to move with the same acceleration for the next
time interval t during which it travels a distance s2. The relation between s1 and s2 is,
(1) s2 = s1 (2) s2 = 2s1 (3) s2 = 3s1
(4) s2 = 4s1 (5) s2 = 5s1

5. In above question, if v1 is the velocity of the body at the end of the first time interval and v2 that at
the end of the second time interval, the relation between v1 and v2 is,
(1) v2 = v1 (2) v2 = 2v1 (3) v2 = 3v1
(4) v2 = 4v1 (5) v2 = 5v1

6. Ball A is rolled in a straight line with a speed of 5 ms-1 towards a bigger ball B lying 20 m away.
After collision with ball B, ball A retraces the path and reaches its starting point with a speed of 4
ms--1. What is the average velocity of ball A during the time interval 0 to 6 s?
(1) Zero (2) 2 ms-1 (3) 4 ms-1
(4) 5 ms-1 (5) 8 ms-1

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7. The driver of a train A moving at a speed of 30 ms-1 sights another train B moving on the same track
towards his train at a speed of 10 ms-1. He immediately applies brakes and achieves a uniform
retardation of 4 ms-2. To avoid head - on collision, what must be the minimum distance between
the trains?
(1) 100 m (2) 200 m (3) 300 m
(4) 400 m (5) 500 m

8. The velocity of a particle moving along the x-axis is given by v = k√𝑥 where k is a positive constant.
The acceleration of the particle is,

√𝑘 𝑘 𝑘2
(1) (2) 2 (3)
2 2
2 2
(4) 2𝑘 (5) 𝑘 2

9. The velocity of a particle at time t (in seconds) is related to its displacement x (in meters) as 𝑣 =
√3𝑥 + 4. The initial velocity of the particle is,
(1) 1 ms-1 (2) 2 ms-1 (3) 3 ms-1
(4) 4 ms-1 (5) 5 ms-1

10. A train is moving southwards at a speed of 30 ms-1. A monkey is running northwards on the roof
of the train with a speed of 5 ms-1. What is the velocity of the monkey as observed by a person
standing on the ground?
(1) 35 ms-1 in the southward direction
(2) 35 ms-1 in the northward direction
(3) 25 ms-1 in the southward direction
(4) 20 ms-1 in the northward direction
(5) 25 ms-1 in the northward direction

11. A jet airplane travelling from east to west at a speed of 500 kmh-1 ejects out gases of combustion
at a speed of 1500 kmh-1 with respect to the jet plane. What is the velocity of the gases with
respect to an observer on the ground?
(1) 1000 kmh-1 in the direction west to east
(2) 1000 kmh-1 in the direction east to west
(3) 2000 kmh-1 in the direction west to east
(4) 1500 kmh-1 in the direction west to east
(5) 2000 kmh-1 in the direction east to west

12. A bullet is fired vertically upwards. After 10 seconds it returns to the point of firing. The location
of the bullet after 7 seconds from the time of firing will be the same as that after,
(1) 2 s (2) 2.5 s (3) 3 s
(4) 3.5 s (5) 1.5 s

13. From the top of a tower 60m tall, a body is thrown vertically down with a velocity of 10ms-1. At
the same time, another body is thrown vertically upwards from the ground with a velocity of
20ms-1. At what height above the ground do they meet?

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(1) 10 m (2) 20 m (3) 30 m

(4) 40 m (5) 50 m

14. A ball is dropped from the top of a tower. In the last second of its fall, the ball covers a distance
9/25 times the height of the tower. The height of the tower is,
(1) 25 m (2) 75 m (3) 100m
(4) 125 m (5) 150 m

15. A freely falling body, falling from a tower of height h covers a distance h/2 in the last second of its
motion. The height of the tower is.
(1) 58 m (2) 50 m (3) 60 m
(4) 55 m (5) 48 m

16. A ball is thrown and follows the parabolic path shown above. Air friction is negligible. Point Q is
the highest point on the path. Points P and R are the same height above the ground.

How do the speeds of the ball at the three points compare?

(1) vP < vQ < vR (2) vR < vQ < vP (3) vQ < vR < vP
(4) vQ < vP = vR (5) vP = vR < vQ

17. Range of a projectile is R, when the angle of projection is 420. Then, the value of the other angle of
projection for the same range is

(1) 480 (2) 600 (3) tan-1 (0.5)

(4) tan-1 (3/2) (5) tan-1 (2/3)

18. A body moving in a straight line with constant acceleration of 8 ms-2 covers a distance of 40 m in
the 4th second. How much distance will it cover in 6th second?
(1) 46 m (2) 50 m (3) 46 m
(4) 60 m (5) 64 m

19. A particle starts from rest. Its acceleration at time t = 0 is 5 ms-2 which varies with time as shown
below. The maximum speed of the particle will be,
a
(1) 7.5 ms-1
5 ms-2
(2) 15 ms-1
(3) 30 ms-1
(4) 8.5 ms-1
(5) 6 ms-1

0,0 t
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20. An object, released on to a horizontal plane bounces back to the same height. The distance (s) -
time (t) curve for the total motion until it momentarily rests for the first time may be,

21. The figure shows the velocity – time graph of motion of an object during 5 s period. What is the
ratio of the displacement of the object during first second in BC and first second in AB?
(1) 4
16
(2)
3
(3) 12
(4) 8
9
(5)
4

22. Figure shows a displacement – time graph of an object.

Zero velocity is likely to be found at,
(1) O (2) C
(3) D (4) O and D
(5) F

23. Which of the following velocity (v) displacement (s) graph best represents the motion of an object
moving with constant acceleration in a straight horizontal road?

s s s

s s

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24. As shown in the figure, a cyclist is at a height of 1.25 m above

the ground. He reaches the ground at P. His initial velocity u is,
(1) 5 ms-1 (2) 15 ms-1
(3) 10 ms-1 (4) 20 ms-1
(5) 25 ms-1

25. The angle of projection of a projectile is 30°. The ratio of the horizontal range and the maximum
height is,

(1) 4√3 (2) 2√3 (3) 3√4 (4)

3√2 (5) √2

26. An object is projected horizontally from a roof of 10 m height. If it hits the ground at a horizontal
distance at 20 m. What is the velocity of it, when it hits the ground?

(1) 5 ms-1 (2) 10 ms-1 (3) 10√2 ms-1

(4) 20 ms-1 (5) 20√2 ms-1

27. An object is projected from a point on the ground and the point of projection is 2 m away from a
vertical wall. The object is projected with an angle of 45° to the vertical. Then it flies over the
vertical wall by slightly touching and strikes the ground at a point 4 m from the wall, the height of
the wall is,
4 2 3
(1) m (2) m (3) m
3 3 2
3
(4) m (5) 3 m
4

28. An object is projected at 20√3 ms-1 velocity inclined at an angle of 60° to the horizontal. It’s
direction of motion after 2 seconds, inclined to the horizontal by an angle,
(1) 60° (2) 90° (3) 30°
(4) 45° (5) 0°

29. Consider the following statements.

(a) The gradient of a tangent drawn at a particular point on displacement – time graph gives the
velocity of the moving object at that instance.
(b) The gradient of a tangent drawn at a particular point on velocity – time graph gives speed of the
moving object at that instance.
(c) The area between the curve and the time axes of a velocity – time graph gives the displacement
of the object in that time interval.
The incorrect statement/s out of above,
(1) Only a (2) Only b (3) Only c
(4) b and c (5) all a, b, c

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30. A rubber is projected vertically upwards. Its velocity becomes half of the projected velocity after
the 1st collision. If it comes to rest after the second collision draw the following graphs. Consider
upwards as positive. (Neglect air resistance)
(a) Draw velocity time graph.
(b) Draw displacement time graph.
(c) Draw speed time graph.
(d) Draw distance time graph.
(e) Draw acceleration time graph.

31. A stone is projected from ground level with an inclination to the horizontal. When it strikes the
ground it comes to rest. Draw following graphs. (Neglect air resistance)
(a) Draw horizontal velocity time graph.
(b) Draw vertical velocity time graph.
(c) Draw horizontal displacement time graph.
(d) Draw vertical displacement time graph.
(e) Draw horizontal acceleration time graph.
(f) Draw vertical acceleration time graph.

32. A stone is projected from a building as shown with an inclination to the horizontal. When it strikes
the ground it comes to rest. Draw following graphs. (Neglect air resistance)

(a) Draw horizontal velocity time graph.

(b) Draw vertical velocity time graph.
(c) Draw horizontal displacement time graph.
(d) Draw vertical displacement time graph.
(e) Draw horizontal acceleration time graph.
(f) Draw vertical acceleration time graph.

33. A man can swim in still water at speed 2 ms-1. A fluid is flowing at speed 3/2 ms-1 in a river of 50
m.
(i) The man is swimming from one river bank to the other as he obtains the minimum
swimming time.
(a) What is the direction he should try to swim?
(b) What is his resultant velocity at this instance?
(c) What is the time taken to come to the other river bank?
(d) What distance will the man move down the river due to the flow?

(ii) The man is swimming from one river bank to the other as he obtains the minimum
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(a) What is the direction he should try to swim?

(b) What is his resultant velocity at this instance?
(c) What is the time taken to come to the other river bank?

34. A cart is moving with uniform velocity 2 ms-1 to the

right direction. A child on the cart throws a ball upwards
with velocity 10 ms-1.

(a) Draw the path of motion of the ball after releasing

the hand.
(b) Explain why the boy able to catch the ball again all
though the cart is moving to the right direction.
(c) What is the time taken to catch the ball?
(d) What is the horizontal distance moved by the cart
when the ball is in air?
(e) Just after throwing the ball if the cart starts to accelerate at a rate of 1ms-2, what is the horizontal
distance to the place where ball hit the ground from the man? (Neglect the vertical height from
the place where ball was initially projected to the ground)

35. On a normal day, a car can travel in a straight horizontal highway from A to B within 75 s with a
constant velocity of 40 ms-1. On a day of road maintenance, starting from A, the car first travels
with 40 ms-1 for 30 s and then decelerates for 36 s with a constant deceleration of 1 ms-2. After
that, the car accelerates with a constant acceleration of 0.5 ms-2 and gains a velocity of 16 ms-1.
The car travels the rest with constant velocity and reaches B.

a. Draw the v-t graph and s-t graph for the motion of the car on a normal day.
b. Draw the v-t graph and s-t graph for the motion of the car on a day of road maintenance.

c.
i. What is the velocity when the car starts to accelerate?
ii. For how long does the car accelerate?

d.
i. Find the distance between the points A and B.
ii. For how long does the car travel with constant velocity after accelerating to reach B?
iii. Find the total time taken by the car to reach B from A on a day of road maintenance.
iv. Find the time delay due to road maintenance.

e.
i. What is the average velocity of the car during the journey?
ii. If the power of the engine is 12 kW, what is the average resistive force acting on the car
during the journey?

f. The price of petrol is Rs. 500 per liter. The car burns petrol at a rate of 4mls-1. What is the
cost of petrol wasted due to road maintenance?

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36.

37. What force should be applied on a 5 kg body so that it has a downward acceleration of 4 m/s2?
(1) 70 N upwards (2) 70 N downwards (3) 40 N upwards
(4) 40 N downwards (5) 30 N upwards

38. How much force is required to push a 100 N wooden block up a frictionless plane that is inclined at
an angle of 30° with the horizontal so that it has an acceleration along the plane of 2.5 m/s 2? The
force is to be applied along the plane.
(1) 50 N (2) 75 N (3) 100 N
(4) 125 N (5) 130 N

39. A block of mass 2 kg is kept on the floor. The coefficient of static friction is 0.4. If a force F of 2.5
N is applied on the block as shown in the figure, the frictional force between the block and the floor
will be

(1) 2.5 N (2) 5 N (3) 7.84 N

(4) 10 N (5) 12 N

40. A ball of mass 0.2 kg is dropped from a height of 5 m above the horizontal ground. After hitting the
ground it rises to a height of 3.2 m above the ground. The magnitude of the impulse received by the
ball from the ground is,
(1) 1.6 Ns (2) 2 Ns (3) 0.4 Ns
(4) 3.6 Ns (5) 0

41. A body of mass m is sliding down a rough inclined plane of angle α. If μ be the coefficient of friction
the acceleration of the body is

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(1) g sin α (2) g cos α (3) g μ cos α

(4) g (sin α - μ cos α) (5) g (cos α - μ sin α)

42. A block of mass 2 kg is placed on the floor. The co-efficient of static friction is 0.4. If the force of
2.8 N is applied on the block parallel to the floor, the frictional force between the block and the
floor is,

(1) 2.8 N (2) 3 N (3) 1 N

(4) 2.5 N (5) 2 N

43. In a rocket, fuel burns out at a rate of 1 kgs-1 and ejected with velocity 48 kms-1, then the force
exerted by the exhaust gases on the rocket is,

(1) 48000 N (2) 48 N (3) 480 N

(4) 4.8 N (5) none of these

44. A body of 5 kg is moving with a velocity of 20 m/s. If a force of 100 N is applied on it for 10 s in
the same direction as its velocity, what will now be the velocity of the body?
(1) 200 m/s (2) 220 m/s (3) 240 m/s
(4) 260 m/s (5) 280 m/s

45. Two blocks of mass m1 = 4 kg and m2 = 2 kg are connected to the ends of a string which panes over
a massless, frictionless pulley. The total downwards force on the pulley is approximately.

(1) 27 N (2) 54 N (3) 2.7 N

(4) 5.4 N (5) 540 N

46. Three blocks of masses m1, m2, and m3 are connected with a weightless string and placed on a
frictionless table if the mass m3 is dragged with a force T, the tension in the string between m2 and
m3 is,
𝑇 𝑚3 𝑇𝑚2 𝑇(𝑚1 + 𝑚2 )
(1) (2) (3)
𝑚1 +𝑚2 +𝑚3 𝑚1 +𝑚2 +𝑚3 (𝑚1 +𝑚2 +𝑚3 )
𝑇(𝑚2 + 𝑚3 )
(4) (5) None of these
(𝑚1 +𝑚2 +𝑚3 )

47. A gun of mass 10 kg fires 4 bullets per second. The mass of each bullet is 20 g and the velocity of
the bullet when it leaves the gun is 300 ms–1. The force required to hold the gun while firing is
(1) 6 N (2) 8 N (3) 24 N
(4) 240 N (5) 280 N

48. A 0.1 kg body moves at a constant speed of 10 ms-1. It is pushed by a applying a constant force for
2 s. Due to this force, it starts moving exactly in the opposite direction with a speed of 4 ms-1. Which
of the below statements is incorrect?
(1) The deceleration of the body is 7 ms-2
(2) The magnitude of the change in momentum is 1.4 kgms-1
(3) Impulse of the force is 1.4 Ns

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(4) The resultant force which acts on the ball is 0.7 N

(5) Magnitude of the deceleration in the first part is greater than magnitude of acceleration in the
second part.

49. A particle is on a smooth horizontal plane. A force F is applied F - t graph is given. Then,

(1) At t1, acceleration inconstant 𝐹

(2) Initially body must be at rest
(3) At t2, acceleration is constant
(4) Initially acceleration is zero
(5) Both (3) and (4) are correct
𝐹

𝑡
𝑡1 𝑡2

50. Which of the following doesn’t represent the actual surface of water,

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

a=0 a a = 2ms-2 a = 2ms-2

(1) only (A) (2) only (B) (3) only (C)

(4) only (D) (5) all (A), (B), (C) and (D)

51. A 0.5 kg ball moving with a speed of 12 ms-1 strikes a hard wall at an angle of 300 with the wall. It
is reflected with the same speed and at the same angle. If the ball is in contact with the for 0.25 s
the average force acting on the wall is,
(1) 96 N (2) 12 N (3) 48 N
(4) 6 N (5) 24 N

52. A 3 kg ball strikes a heavy rigid wall with a speed of 10 m/s at an angle
of 60°. It gets reflected with the same speed and angle as shown. If the
ball is in contact with the wall for 0.20 s, what is the average force exerted
on the ball by the wall?
(1) 150 N (2) Zero
(3) 150√3 N (4) 300 N
(5) 350 N

53. A particle is project up a 450 rough incline with a velocity v. The co-efficient of friction is 0.5. The
speed with which it returns back to the starting point is v/. Then v/v/ is

(1) 1⁄ (2) 2⁄ (3) √3

√3 √3
1
(4) ⁄ (5) 1
√2

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54. A gun of mass 10 kg fires 4 bullets per second. The mass of each bullet when it leaves the gun is
300 ms-1. The force required to hold the gun while firing is,

(1) 6 N (2) 8 N (3) 24 N

(4) 240 N (5) 15 N

55. A rocket with lift-off mass 3.5 × 104 kg is blasted upward with an initial acceleration of 10 ms-2,
the initial thrust of the blast is,
(1) 1.75 × 105 N (2) 3.5 × 105 N (3) 7 × 105 N
(4) 14 × 105 N (5) 7 × 104 N

56.

57.

58.

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59. A block of mass m = 4 kg is placed over a rough inclined plane as shown in figure. The co-efficient
efficient of friction between the block and plane is µs = 0.6. A force F = 10 N is applied on the
block at an angle 300. The contact force between the block and plane is,
(1) 27.15 N F
(2) 16.32 N
300
(3) 10.65 N
(4) 32.16 N
(5) 32.08 N

450

60.

61. The figure below shows a man of mass 40 kg pulling a block of mass 10 kg with a light inextensible
string along an inclined lane with an inclination 30° to the horizontal. The string makes an angle
36° with the inclined plane and a constant frictional force of 50 N acts on the block by the surface.
(cos 30° = 0.86, sin 30° = 0.5, cos 36° = 0.8, sin 36° = 0.6)

i) Label the forces acting on the block.

ii) Label the forces acting on the man.

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iii)
a) If the man pulls the block from rest to a vertical height of 20 m within 10 s, find the
acceleration of the system.
b) Find the tension of the string.
c) Find the normal reaction force acting on the block by the inclined plane.
d) Find the force applied by the man on the inclined plane.
e) Find the normal reaction force acting on the man by the inclined plane.

iv) Now assume that the string has a mass of 20 kg. if the block is accelerating with 0.5 ms-2, with
the same friction as in part (iii), find the tension at the middle of the string.

v) The man accidentally releases the string when he is at a vertical height of 40m. (Assume the
string to be light when answering part v)
a) Find the velocity of the block when it starts to fall down the inclined plane.
b) If frictional force against the block becomes 30N, find the acceleration of the block.
c) What is the velocity when it reaches the bottom of the inclined plane?

62.

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