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Laws of Motion Test - Eduniti Duration 60 min

TIME : 60 MINUTES Maximum Marks: 100 6. A weight W hangs from a rope that is tied to two other ropes
that are fastened to the ceiling as shown in Figure. The up-
 Q1 to 25 Four Marks each (–1 Marks for wrong answer) per ropes make angles  and  with the horizontal. Now, the
values of T1 and T2 are
1. A wooden box of mass 8 kg slides down an inclined plane of
inclination 30 to the horizontal with a constant acceleration
of 0.4 ms–2. What is the force of friction between the box and
inclined plane? [g = 10 ms–2]
(a) 36.8 N (b) 76.8 N
(c) 65.6 N (d) 97.8 N

2. A body of mass 2 kg slides down with an acceleration of

3m/s2 on a rough inclined plane having a slope of 30 . The
external force required to take the same body up the plane W sin  W sin  W sin  W sin 
(a) sin(  ) , sin(  ) (b) cos(  ) , cos(  )
with the same acceleration will be (g = 10 m/s2)
(a) 14 N (b) 20 N
(c) 6 N (d) 4 N W cos  W cos  W cos  W cos 
(c) sin(  ) , sin(  ) (d) tan(  ) , tan(  )
3. Two blocks of masses 3m and 2m are in contact on a smooth
table. A force P is first applied horizontally on block of mass 7. If all the surfaces are smooth, the acceleration of the block
3m and then on mass 2m. The contact forces between the m2 will be
two blocks in the two cases are in the ratio. m1

(a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 3
(c) 3 : 2 (d) 5 : 3 m2

4. The pulleys and the strings shown in figure. are smooth and m2 g 2m2 g
(a) 4m  m (b) 4m  m
of negligible mass. For the system to remain in equilibrium, 1 2 1 2

the angle  should be

2m1 g 2m1 g
(c) m  4m (d) m  m
1 2 1 2

8. The accelerations of the blocks A and B shown in the figure

are

(a) 0 (b) 30

(c) 45 (d) 60

5. Figure shows a man pulling a rope with such a force that the
plank is held in position. The weights of the ropes, plank and
pulleys are to be neglected. If g = 10 ms–2 and the weight of
the man is 800 N, then the force with which the man pulls the 5g 5g 10 g 5 g
(a) , (b) ,
rope is 13 13 13 13
10 g 10 g 5 g 10 g
(c) , (d) ,
13 13 7 7

(a) 100 N (b) 200 N

(c) 400 N (d) 800 N.

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9. A block A slides down a smooth inclined plane when re-
leased from the top in time t. Another block falls freely from
the same point and strikes the ground in time t/2. The value
of angle  is

(a) 2/9 (b) 5/12

(c) 1/5 (d) 2/5

13. An insect crawls up a hemispherical surface very slowly

(see figure). The coefficient of friction between the insect
(a) 15 (b) 30 and the surface is 1/3. If the line joining the center of the
(c) 45 (d) 60 hemispherical surface to the insect makes an angle  with
the vertical, the maximum possible value of  is given by

10. A block A is able to slide on the frictionless incline of

angle  and length l, kept inside an elevator going up with
uniform velocity v. Find the time taken by the block to slide
down the length of the incline if released from rest. What (a) cot   3 (b) tan   3
would be the time taken if the elevator is accelerated at a ms–2.
(c) sec   3 (d) cosec   3
2l 2l
(a) ,
g sin  ( g  a)sin  14. A conical pendulum of length 1 m makes an angle   45 w.r.t.
Z-axis and moves in a circle in the XY plane. The radius of the
2l 2l circle is 0.4 m and its center is vertically below O. The speed
(b) ,
g sin  ( g  a) sin  of the pendulum, in its circular path, will be
(Take g = 10 ms–2)
2l 2l
(c) ,
g sin  g sin 
(d) none of these

11. What minimum acceleration must the cart in figure have in

order that the block A will not fall? (  is coefficient of friction
between cart and block).
(a) 0.4 m s–1 (b) 2 m s–1
(c) 0.2 m s–1 (d) 4 m s–1

15. A small ring P is threaded on a smooth wire bent in the from of

a circle of radius a and center O. The wire rotates with contant
angular speed  about a vertical diameter while the ring re-
mains at rest w.r.t. the wire at a distance a / 2 from the axis of
g rotaion. Then 2 is equal to
(a) g (b)


g
(c) (d) (  1)g
 1

12. A block of mass m is lying on a wedge having inclination

angle   tan 1 (1/ 5) . Wedge is moving with a constant ac-
celeration a = 2 ms–2. The minimum value of coefficient of
2g g
friction  so that m remains stationary w.r.t. wedge is (a) (b)
(Take g = 10 ms–2) a 2a

2g g 3
(c) (d)
a 3 2a
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20. Minimum force required to pull the lower block is (Take g =
16. A car is moving with a speed of 10 m/s on a circular path of
10 m/s2)
radius 25 m. Driver of car applies brakes producing a uniform
deceleration of 3 m/s2. Then which is incorrect,
(a) the centripetal acceleration of car just after applying the
brake is 4 m/s2
(b) the acceleration just after applying the brake is 5 m/s2
(c) the acceleration is directed towards the centre just after
applying the brake (a) 1 N (b) 5 N
(d) the angle between acceleration and velocity just after (c) 7 N (d) 10 N
applying the brake is 127o
21. Coefficient of kinetic friction between 3 kg and 2 kg blocks is
17. Consider a small cube of mass m kept on a horizontal disc. If 0.3. The horizontal table surface is smooth. The acceleration
the disc is to rotate with uniform angular velocity, what could of masses is
be its maximum value without causing any sliding between
the cube and the disc? (Coefficient of static friction between
the cube and disc is . )

(a) 5.75 ms 2 (b) 2.25 ms 2

g 2g (c) 1.75ms 2 (d) 0.75 ms 2
(a) (b)
r r 22. A particle is moving on a circular path of radius 0.5 m with a
tangential deceleration that is always half of the centripetal
g g acceleration. The initial velocity is 20 m/s. If speed of the
(c) (d) 2
2r r 4x
particle at t = 5 s is m/s then, find the value of x.
101
18. Two masses m1 = 5 kg and m2 = 10 kg, connected by an (a) 4 (b) 5
inextensible string over a frictionless pulley, are moving as
(c) 3 (d) 6
shown in the figure. The coefficient of friction of horizontal
surface is 0.15. The minimum weight m that should be put on
top of m2 to stop the motion is 23. A plate of mass M is placed on a horizontal frictionless sur-
face (see fig.), and a body of mass m is placed on this plate
.The coefficient of friction between this body and the plate
is  . If a force 2 mg is applied to the body of mass m along
the horizontal, the acceleration of the plate will be (M > m)

m m
(a) g (b) ( M  m) g
(a) 10.3 kg (b) 18.3 kg M
(c) 23.3 kg (d) 43.3 kg
2m 2m
(c) g (d) ( M  m) g
19. A given object takes n times more time to slide down a M
45 rough inclined plane as it takes to slide down a perfectly
smooth 45 incline. The coefficient of kinetic friction be-
tween the object and the incline is
1 1
(a) 1  (b) 1 
n2 n2

1 1
(c) (d)
2  n2 1  n2

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24. Refer to the arrangement shown in figure. The magnitude of
the force F exerted on a large block C of mass m3 = 1.9 kg is
such that block A of mass m1 = 1.1kg and block B of mass m2
= 1 kg remain stationary with respect to the block C. All
16 21
surfaces are smooth. The value of F is N . Find the
n
value of n. (g = 10 m/s2)

B
A

(a) 2 (b) 4
(c) 7 (d) 5

25. A body of mass m is thrown straight up with velocity v0.

Find the velocity v  with which the body comes down if the
air drag force equals kv2, where k is a constant and v is the
velocity of the boy.
v0  kv02 
(a) (b) 0  1  mg 
v
1  kv02 / mg  

kv02
(c) v0 1  (d) none of these
mg

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