CHAMP-2024

PHYSICS PRACTICE SESSION

ONLY QUESTIONS
TARGET : JEE (Main) 2024
NO. 04
Syllabus : CIRCULAR MOTION

SECTION - I
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
This section contains 15 multiple choice questions. Each question has 4 choices (1), (2), (3) and (4) for its
answer, out of which ONLY ONE is correct.

1. A motorcyclist wants to drive on the vertical surface of a wooden ‘well’ of radius 5 m, with a minimum

speed of 5 5 m/s. The minimum value of coefficient of friction between the tyres & the wall of the well
must be
(1) 0.10 (2) 0.20 (3) 0.30 (4) 0.40
2. A particle is revolving in a circle increasing its speed uniformly. Which of the following is constant?
(1) centripetal acceleration (2) tangential acceleration
(3) angular acceleration (4) none of these
3. A particle moves in a circular path so that its distance travel varies with time t as s = 3t2 + 6t. Then its
acceleration at t = 1 sec. is (radius of path is 12 m) -

(1) 6 5 m/s2 (2) 6 m/s2 (3) 12 m/s2 (4) 12 3 m/s2

4. A bird is flying in the air. To take a turn in the horizontal plane of radius R with the velocity 'v' it should
bend itself at angle _______ with the horizontal.

v2 Rg v2
(1) tan–1 (2) tan–1 (3) tan–1 (4) none of these
Rg v2 Rg

5. A car travels with constant speed on a circular road on level horizontal ground. In the figure shown, Fair
is the force of air resistance on the car. Which of the other forces best represents the horizontal force of
the road on the car's tyres ?

(1) FA (2) FB (3) FC (4) FD

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6. A car moves around a curve at a constant speed. When the car goes around the arc subtending 60° at
the centre, then the ratio of magnitude of instantaneous acceleration to average acceleration over the
60° arc is :

  2 5
(1) (2) (3) (4)
3 6 3 3
7. A car is moving on circular path of radius 100m such that its speed is increasing at the rate of 5m/s2. At
t = 0 it starts from rest, what is the radial acceleration of car at the instant it completed one round trip?
(1) 40 m/s2 (2) 10 m/s2 (3) 20 m/s2 (4) 15 m/s2

8. A point mass m is suspended from a light thread of length  , fixed at O, is whirled in a

horizontal circle at constant speed as shown, the forces on the mass are
O

T
T
T T

F
F F F
(1) (2) (3) (4)
W
W W W

9. A particle is acted upon by a force of constant magnitude which is always perpendicular to the velocity
of the particle. The motion of the particle takes place in a plane. It follows that
(1) Velocity is constant (2) Acceleration is constant
(3) Kinetic energy is variable (4) It moves in a circular path
10. The member OA rotates about a horizontal axis through O with a constant counter clockwise velocity
 = 3 rad/sec. As it passes the position  = 0, a small mass m is placed upon it at a radial distance
r = 0.5 m. If the mass is observed to slip at  = 37º, the coefficient of friction between the mass & the
member is ______.

3 9 4 5
(1) (2) (3) (4)
16 16 9 9

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11. A small ring of mass m is connected with a particle of same mass by an ideal string & the whole
system is released as shown in figure. Coefficient of friction between ring A and wire is 3/5, ring A will
starts sliding when connecting string will make an angle  with the vertical, then  will be : (particle is
free to move and ring can slide only)

(1) 30º (2) 45º (3) 60º (4) None of these

12. A particle moves along the given path such that its x component of velocity always remains constant as
V0 . Let V be the velocity of particle as a function of :

Then the choose the correct relation.

(1) V = V0cos (2) V = V0sec (3) V = V0sin (4) V = V0 cosec 
13. Inside a horizontally moving box, an experimenter (who is stationary relative to box) finds that when an
object is placed on a smooth horizontal table and is released, it moves with an acceleration of 10 m/s2.
In this box if 1 kg body is suspended with a light string, the tension in the string in equilibrium position.
(w.r.t. experimenter) will be. (Take g = 10 m/s2)

(1) 10 N (2) 10 2N (3) 20 N (4) zero

14. A small sized mass m is attached by a massless string (of length L) to the top of a fixed frictionless solid
cone whose axis is vertical. The half angle at the vertex of the cone is . If the mass m moves around in
a horizontal circle at speed v, what is the maximum value of v for which mass stays in contact with the
cone ? (g is acceleration due to gravity.)

(1) gL cos  (2) gL sin (3) gL sin  tan  (4) gL tan

15. A particle moves along a circle with constant speed such that magnitude of its instantaneous
n
acceleration is a. The magnitude of average acceleration during the time it covers half cycle is a.

Find the value of n.
(1) 2 (2) 4 (3) 8 (4) 16

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 SECTION-II
(NUMERICAL VALUE TYPE QUESTIONS)
This section contains 5 Questions. The answer to each question is NUMERICAL VALUE with twodigit integer
and decimal upto one digit.

r
16. A particle performs uniform circular motion. At some instant of time its acceleration is a = x ˆi  3ˆj and
r
velocity is v = 3iˆ  2ˆj . Find the value of x (in m/s2) at that time. All quantities are in S.I. units.

17. In the given figure, rod of length 2m is sliding as the situation shown. If end A of the rod is moving in left
direction with speed of 4 m/s at any instant than, find the angular velocity of rod at this instant.

18. A squirrel climbing up a cylindrical post spirally makes the circle in a vertical height of four feet. If the
top of the post is sixteen feet high and three feet in circumference, the distance travelled by it to reach
x
the top is x in feet. Find the value of .
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19. A thin circular loop of radius R rotates about its vertical diameter with an angular velocity . What is the
angle made by the radius vector joining the centre to the small bead on the loop with vertical downward

2g
direction for  = ? (Neglect friction)
r

20. In the figure shown, a small block of mass m =2 kg moves in fixed semicircular smooth track of radius
R = 2 m in vertical plane. It is released from the top. Find the the resultant force on the block in newtons
at the lowest point of track (Take g= 10m/s2)

ANSWER KEY OF DPP NO. 04

1. (4) 2. (3) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (2)
6. (1) 7. (3) 8. (2) 9. (4) 10. (1)
11. (2) 12. (2) 13. (2) 14. (3) 15. (1)
16. 2 17. 2 18. 2 19. 60º 20. 40

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