ASISGNMENT

(Motion in straight line Level 1)

1. A body covers 200 cms. in first 2 seconds and 220 cms. in next 4 seconds. Velocity of the body at the
end of the 7th second is
(A) 10 cm/sec. (B) 20 cm/sec. (C) 190 cm/sec. (D) 140 cm/sec
2. A particle moves in a plane with constant acceleration in a direction different from the initial velocity.
The path of the particle is
(A) a straight line (B) an arc of circle (C) a parabola (D) an ellipse
3. A particle is moving along a straight-line path according to the relation s2 = at2 + 2bt + c s represents
the distance travelled in t seconds and a, b, c are constants. Then the acceleration of the particle varies
as
(A) s–3 (B) s3/2 (C) s–2/3 (D) s2
4. A train of 150 m length is going towards north direction at a speed of 10 ms–1. A parrot flies at a speed
of 5 ms–1 towards south direction parallel to the railway track. The time taken by the parrot to cross the
train is equal to
(A) 12 s (B) 8 s(C) 15 s (D) 10
5. A body travels 2 m in the first two-second and 2.20 m in the next 4 second with uniform deceleration.
The velocity of the body at the end of 9 second is
(A)– 10 m/s(B) – 0.20 m/s(C) – 0.40 m/s(D) – 0.80 m/s
6. A body released from the top of a tower falls through half the height of the tower in 2 s. In what time
shall the body fall through the height of the tower
(A) 4 s (B) 3.26 s (C) 3.48 s (D) 2.828 s
7.
If you were to throw a ball vertically upward with an initial velocity of 50 m/s, approximately how long
would it take for the ball to return to your hand? Assume air resistance is negligible
(A) 2.5 s (B) 5.0 s (C) 7.5 s (D) 10 s
8. A ball is thrown vertically upward. It has a speed of 10 m/sec when it has reached one half of its
maximum height. How high does the ball rise? Take g = 10 m/s2
(A) 10 m (B) 5 m (C) 15 m (D) 20 m
9. From a balloon rising vertically upwards at 5m/s , a stone thrown up at 10m/s relative to the balloon. Its
velocity with respect to ground after 2s is(g= 10m/s2 )
(A) 20m/s (B) 10m/s (c) 5m/s (d) zero
10. A car accelerates from rest at constant rate for first 10 seconds and covers a distance x. It covers a
distance Y in next 10s at the same acceleration. Which of the following is true?
(A) x=y (B) x=3y (C) y=2x (D) y=3x
11. A car and a bike with the same kinetic energy are brought to rest by the application of brakes, which
provide equal retarding forces. Which of them will come to rest in a shorter distance?
12. If a body has constant speed, is it true that it can have acceleration?
13. The displacement of a body is zero. Is the distance covered by it also necessarily zero? What will be the
nature of velocity-time graph for a uniform motion?
14. Give an example where particle has zero velocity but finite acceleration.
15. A body moves through distance x from point a to b and return back to a by same path. What will be the
distance and displacement covered by the body.
16. Draw the position time graphs for two objects initially occupying different positions but having zero
relative velocity
17. A jet plane is moving with a velocity of 800 km/hr. The gases are ejecting from rear of jet plane with
velocity of 1600 km/hr with respect to jet. Find the velocity of gases w.r.t a person on ground.
18. A train moves from point A to B with speed of 50km/hr and returns back from B to A with speed of 40
km/hr. calculate average speed and average velocity.
19. Two balls are thrown simultaneously one vertically upwards with speed of 20m/s from the ground and
other vertically downwards from height of 40m with same speed and in same line of motion. At which
point will they collide.
20. A bomb is dropped from aeroplane when it is at the height of 9000m. Aeroplane is moving with
velocity 400 km/hr. Will bomb hit the target at height 9000m from aeroplane?
21. Trains A and B of length 600m each are moving on two parallel tracks with a uniform speed of
60km/hr. in same direction with A ahead of B. B accelerates with 1m/s2 to overtake A. If after 50sec.
the guard of B just brushes past the driver of A, what was the original distance between them?
22. If a body travels half its total path in the last second from rest, calculate the time and height of its fall
(h=57.11m, t = 3.414s)
23. A ball is thrown vertically upward. After some time it returns back to earth. Draw speed-time graph for
the ball (neglect air resistance)
24. A ball is thrown upward with a speed of 3 m/s from the tower of 50 m high. Find the speed with which
it strikes the ground.(31.45 m/s)
25. A stone falls from a tower and travels 10 m in the last second before it reaches the ground. Find the
height of the tower. (561m)
26. A boy wants to climb to the top of a vertical pole 13 m high .He climbs 5m in 1s then slips 3m in
1s.This process repeats. Plot x- t graph. Also find the time taken by the boy to reach the top of the
pole.l (9s)
27. Two trains A and B are running on two parallel tracks. Train A moves with a speed of 40km/hr due east
and train b moves with a speed of 60km/hr due West.Calculate (a) the velocity of train A with respect
to train B (b) velocity of B with respect to A (c) velocity of ground with respect to A (100km/hr,-
100km/hr,-40km/hr)
28. A boy runs from his home to the market 1 km away. He reaches the market in 30 minutes seeing the
market closed he once runs back to his home and stops after 15 minutes at his friend’s house, which is
½ km away from the market. Calculate his average speed and m magnitude of average velocity during
the whole journey (2km/h and 0.67km/h)
29. A ball dropped from a height of 90 m on a floor. At each collision with the floor, the ball loses one
tenth of its speed. Plot the speed – time graph of its motion between t=0 to 12 s.
30. If the displacement of the body is represented by y = t4 + t2 + t +1 then find the
(a) Average velocity between 0 to 3s (b) average acceleration between 0 to 2s
31. A van starts with acceleration 2m/s2 .A mobike starts towards the car with a velocity of 20m/s .If the
mobike was 96 m behind the car at the start. Find the time in which he overtakes the van.(8s)
32. A particle starts from (0,0) and moves along y axis to a point (0,25) m and then (0,-25)m .Find the ratio
between distance and displacement (3)
33. A boat which has a speed of 5km/h in still water crosses a river of width 1km along the shortest
possible path in 15 minutes. Find the velocity of river water in km/h. (3)
34. An aircraft flies with constant airspeed (speed of aircraft in still air) 200km/hr from position A to
position B, which is 100km north-east of A and then flies back to A. Throughout the whole flight the
wind velocity is 60 km/hr from the west. Find time of flight from A to B and back.(0.42hr)
35. A particle moves along a straight line and its velocity depends on time as v=3t-t2 Here v is in m/s and t
in second. Find (a) average velocity and (b) average speed for first five seconds (0.833m/s,2.63m/s)
36. A car starts from rest with an acceleration of 6m/s2 which decreases to zero linearly with time, in 10
second, after which the car continues at a constant speed. Find the time required for the car to travel
400m from the start.(16.67s)
37. A motor boat going downstream overcame a raft at point A. After one hour it turned back and after
some time it met the raft again at a distance 6km from point A. Find the river velocity.(3km/hr)
38. A lift of total mass M kg is raised by cables from rest to rest through a height h.The greatest tension
which the cables can safely bear is nMg newtons.Find the shortest interval of time in which the ascent
can be made (n>1).(t=(2nh/(n-1)g)1/2
39. A particle of mass 10-2kg is moving along the positive X-axis under the influence of a force F= -k/2x2
where k=10-2Nm2.At time t=0,it is at x=1m and its velocity is v=0 (a) find its velocity when it reaches
x=0.5m (b) find the time at which it reaches x=0.25m (v=-1m/s)
40. A ball of mass 2kg is dropped from a height of 80 m on a floor. At each collision with the floor
the ball loses half of its speed. Plot the velocity-time, speed-time, and kinetic energy-time graphs of its
motion till first two collisions with the floor (g=10m/s2)