Shri Mahavir Jain Public School, kurukshetra

Holiday Assignment. 2024-25

Class 9th. Subject Physics

1. What would be the displacement of a particle moving in a circular path of radius r after a
displacement of half a circle?

a. 2πr
b. πr
c. 2r
d. Zero
e.

2. The path length travelled by a body in a given time interval is known as _____.

a. distance
b. velocity
c. acceleration
d. moment

3. Which of the following situations is true and possible?

a. If the velocity of a body is zero, then the acceleration can be non-zero

b. A body moving at a constant velocity can have acceleration
c. The magnitude of distance and displacement are equal in a circular motion
d. All of the above

4. Velocity is defined as _____ per time.

a. distance
b. displacement
c. power
d. acceleration

5 A body moving in a straight line has a uniform motion if it travels _____ distance in equal
time intervals.

a. equal
b. unequal

6. Suppose a boy is moving with a uniform velocity of 10 m/s on a merry-go-round ride.

Which of the following is true of the given scenario?

a. The boy is at rest

 b. The boy is moving with no acceleration
c. The boy is moving with accelerated motion
d. The boy is moving with uniform velocity

7. What does the slope of the distance-time graph give?

a. speed
b. velocity
c. acceleration
d. displacement

8. What does the slope of the velocity-time graph give?

a. speed
b. velocity
c. acceleration
d. displacement

9. Which of the following is true of a free-falling body?

a. It moves with non-uniform motion

b. It has zero velocity
c. It has constant non-zero acceleration
d. It has non-uniform acceleration

10. The physical quantity that has both magnitude and direction is known as

a. vectors
b. scalars
c. Both(a) and (b)
d. Neither (a) or (b)

11 Which of the following is true about motion along a straight line?

a) It can only be uniform motion
b) It can only be nonuniform motion
c) It can be either uniform or nonuniform motion
d) It can have multiple directions

12. What does the rate of motion refer to?

a) Change in position
b) Change in speed
c) Change in direction
d) Change in time

13 . When an object moves at a constant speed and in a straight line, what kind of
motion is it?
a) Uniform motion
b) Nonuniform motion
c) Circular motion
d) Accelerated motion

14. In a distance-time graph, a straight horizontal line represents what kind of

motion?
a) Uniform motion
b) Nonuniform motion
c) No motion
d) Accelerated motion

15. What does the slope of a velocity-time graph represent?

a) Acceleration
b) Displacement
c) Distance
d) Speed

16. What does the equation v = u + at represent?

a) Relationship between velocity and time
b) Relationship between position and time
c) Relationship between acceleration and time
d) Relationship between displacement and time

17. What kind of motion is observed when an object moves in a circular path at a
constant speed?
a) Accelerated motion
b) Uniform motion
c) Nonuniform motion
d) Circular motion

18. How can the rate of motion be measured?

a) Using a stopwatch
b) Using a ruler
c) Using a scale
d) Using a speedometer

19. What does a steep slope on a distance-time graph indicate?

a) Faster motion
b) Slower motion
c) No motion
d) Accelerated motion
20. What does the area under a velocity-time graph represent?
a) Speed
b) Acceleration
c) Displacement
d) Distance

Numerical
1. A particle is moving in a circle of diameter 5m. Calculate the distance covered and the
displacement
when it competes 3 revolutions.

2. Vishnu swims in a 90m long pool. He covers 180m in one minute by swimming from one end
to the other and back along the same straight path. Find the average speed and average
velocity of Vishnu.

3. In along distance race, the athletics were expected to take four rounds of the track such that
the line of finish was same as the line of start. Suppose the length of the track was 200m.
(a) What is the total distance to be covered by the athletics?
(b) What is the displacement of the athletics when they touch the finish line?
(c) Is the motion of the athletics uniform or non-uniform?
(d) Is the displacement of an athletic and the distance covered by him at the end of the race
equal?

4. Starting from a stationary position, Bhuvan paddles his bicycle to attain a velocity of 6m/s in
30s. Then he applies brakes such that the velocity of bicycle comes down to 4m/s in the next
5s. Calculate the acceleration of the bicycle in both the cases.

5. Amit is moving in his car with a velocity of 45km/hr. How much distance will he cover
(a) in one minute and
(b) in one second.

6. An electric train is moving with a velocity of 120km/hr. How much distance will it move in 30s?

7. A body is moving with a velocity of 15m/s. If the motion is uniform, what will be the velocity
after 10s?

8. A train travels some distance with a speed of 30km/hr and returns with a speed of 45km/hr.
Calculate the average speed of the train.

9 . A scooter acquires a velocity of 36km/hr in 10seconds just after the start. It takes 20 seconds
to stop.
Calculate the acceleration in the two cases.
10. An object undergoes an acceleration of 8m/s² starting from rest. Find the distance travelled
in 1 second.

11. A moving train is brought to rest within 20 seconds by applying brakes. Find the initial
velocity, if the retardation due to brakes is 2m/s².

12 . A train starting from the rest moves with a uniform acceleration of 0.2 m/s²
for 5 minutes. Calculate the speed acquired and the distance travelled in this time.

13 . A motor cycle moving with a speed of 5 m/s is subjected to an acceleration of 0.2 m/s².
Calculate the speed of the motor cycle after 10 seconds and the distance travelled in this time.

14. Calculate the speed of the tip of second’s hand of a watch of length 1.5 cm.

15. A cyclist moving on a circular track of radius 50m complete revolution in 4 minutes. What is
his (i) average speed (ii) average velocity in one full revolution?

16 The length of minutes hand of a clock in 5 cm. Calculate its speed.

17. Draw the velocity time graph for a particle at rest.

18 Which quantity is represented by the area under velocity time graph

19 Differentiate between speed and velocity

20.Study the speed-time graph of a body given here and answer the following questions:

(i) What type of motion is represented by OA?

(ii) What type of motion is represented by AB?

(iii) What type of motion is represented by BC?

(iv) Find out the acceleration of the body.

(v) Calculate the retardation of the body.

(vi) Find out the distance travelled by the body from A to B.