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Daily Practice Sheet

Motion in one Dimension - 01

1. A Body moves 6 m north. 8 m east and 10m 7. A person travels along a straight road for half
vertically upwards, what is its resultant the distance with velocity v1 and the remaining
displacement from initial position half distance with velocity v 2 The average
[DCE 2000]
velocity is given by
(a) 10 2m (b) 10m
v 22
10 (a) v1v 2 (b)
(c) m (d) 10  2m v12
2
v1 + v 2 2v1v2
(c) (d)
2 v1 + v2
2. A man goes 10m towards North, then 20m
towards east then displacement is
[KCET 1999; JIPMER 1999; AFMC 2003]
8. The displacement-time graph for two particles
(a) 22.5m (b) 25m A and B are straight lines inclined at angles of
(c) 25.5m (d) 30m 30 o and 60 o with the time axis. The ratio of
velocities of V A : VB is
3. A person moves 30 m north and then 20 m (a) 1 : 2 (b) 1 : 3
towards east and finally 30 2 m in south-west (c) 3 :1 (d) 1 : 3
direction. The displacement of the person from
the origin will be 9. A car travels from A to B at a speed of 20 km / hr
[J & K CET 2004]
and returns at a speed of 30 km / hr . The average
(a) 10 m along north (b) 10 m long south
(c) 10 m along west (d) Zero speed of the car for the whole journey is
(a) 25 km / hr (b) 24 km / hr
4. An aeroplane flies 400 m north and 300 m south (c) 50 km / hr (d) 5 km / hr
and then flies 1200 m upwards then net
displacement is 10. A boy walks to his school at a distance of 6 km
[AFMC 2004]
with constant speed of 2.5 km/hour and walks
(a) 1200 m (b) 1300 m back with a constant speed of 4 km/hr. His
(c) 1400 m (d) 1500 m average speed for round trip expressed in
km/hour, is
5. An athlete completes one round of a circular (a) 24/13 (b) 40/13
track of radius R in 40 sec. What will be his (c) 3 (d) ½
displacement at the end of 2 min. 20 sec
[NCERT 1990; Kerala PMT 2004]
11. A car travels the first half of a distance between
(a) Zero (b) 2R
two places at a speed of 30 km/hr and the second
(c) 2R (d) 7R
half of the distance at 50 km/hr. The average
speed of the car for the whole journey is
6. A wheel of radius 1 meter rolls forward half a
(a) 42.5 km/hr (b) 40.0 km/hr
revolution on a horizontal ground. The (c) 37.5 km/hr (d) 35.0 km/hr
magnitude of the displacement of the point of
the wheel initially in contact with the ground is 12. One car moving on a straight road covers one
[BCECE 2005]
third of the distance with 20 km/hr and the rest
(a) 2 (b) 2
with 60 km/hr. The average speed is
(c) 2 +4 (d)  (a) 40 km/hr (b) 80 km/hr
2
(c) 46 km/hr (d) 36 km/hr
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13. A car moves for half of its time at 80 km/h and 20. The ratio of the numerical values of the average
for rest half of time at 40 km/h. Total distance velocity and average speed of a body is always
covered is 60 km. What is the average speed of (a) Unity (b) Unity or less
the car (c) Unity or more (d) Less than unity
(a) 60 km / h (b) 80 km / h
(c) 120 km / h (d) 180 km / h 21. A person travels along a straight road for the
first half time with a velocity v1 and the next
14. A train has a speed of 60 km/h. for the first one half time with a velocity v2 . The mean velocity
hour and 40 km/h for the next half hour. Its
V of the man is
average speed in km/h is
2 1 1 v1 + v 2
(a) 50 (b) 53.33 (a) = + (b) V =
V v1 v2 2
(c) 48 (d) 70
v1
(c) V = v1v2 (d) V =
v2
15. Which of the following is a one dimensional
motion
(a) Landing of an aircraft 22. If a car covers 2/5th of the total distance with v1
(b) Earth revolving a round the sun speed and 3/5th distance with v2 then average
(c) Motion of wheels of a moving trains speed is
(d) Train running on a straight track 1 v1 + v 2
(a) v1v 2 (b)
2 2
16. A 150 m long train is moving with a uniform 2v 1 v 2 5v 1 v 2
(c) (d)
velocity of 45 km/h. The time taken by the train v1 + v 2 3v1 + 2v 2
to cross a bridge of length 850 meters is
(a) 56 sec (b) 68 sec 23. Which of the following options is correct for the
(c) 80 sec (d) 92 sec object having a straight line motion represented
by the following graph
17. A particle is constrained to move on a straight D
line path. It returns to the starting point after 10 C

sec. The total distance covered by the particle

B
during this time is 30 m. Which of the following t
statements about the motion of the particle is
A
false O
s
(a) Displacement of the particle is zero (a) The object moves with constantly
(b) Average speed of the particle is 3 m/s increasing velocity from O to A and then it
(c) Displacement of the particle is 30 m moves with constant velocity.
(d) Both (a) and (b) (b) Velocity of the object increases uniformly
(c) Average velocity is zero
18. A particle moves along a semicircle of radius (d) The graph shown is impossible
10m in 5 seconds. The average velocity of the
particle is 24. The numerical ratio of displacement to the
(a) 2 ms −1 (b) 4 ms −1 distance covered is always
(c) 2 ms −1 (d) 4 ms −1 (a) Less than one
(b) Equal to one
19. A man walks on a straight road from his home to (c) Equal to or less than one
a market 2.5 km away with a speed of 5 km/h. (d) Equal to or greater than one
Finding the market closed, he instantly turns and
walks back home with a speed of 7.5 km/h. The 25. A 100 m long train is moving with a uniform
average speed of the man over the interval of velocity of 45 km/hr. The time taken by the train
time 0 to 40 min. is equal to to cross a bridge of length 1 km is
25 (a) 58 s (b) 68 s
(a) 5 km/h (b) km/h
4
(c) 78 s (d) 88 s
30 45
(c) km/h (d) km/h
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26. A particle moves for 20 seconds with velocity 3 33. The coordinates of a moving particle at any time
m/s and then velocity 4 m/s for another 20 are given by x = at 2 and y = bt 2 . The speed of
seconds and finally moves with velocity 5 m/s the particle at any moment is
for next 20 seconds. What is the average
(a) 2 t(a + b) (b) 2t (a 2 − b 2 )
velocity of the particle
(a) 3 m/s (b) 4 m/s (c) t a 2 + b 2 (d) 2t (a 2 + b 2 )
(c) 5 m/s (d) Zero 34. An electron starting from rest has a velocity that
increases linearly with the time that is v = kt,
27. The correct statement from the following is where k = 2m / sec 2 . The distance travelled in the
(a) A body having zero velocity will not first 3 seconds will be
necessarily have zero acceleration (a) 9 m (b) 16 m
(b) A body having zero velocity will (c) 27 m (d) 36 m
necessarily have zero acceleration
(c) A body having uniform speed can have 35. The displacement of a body is given to be
only uniform acceleration proportional to the cube of time elapsed. The
(d) A body having non-uniform velocity will magnitude of the acceleration of the body is
have zero acceleration (a) Increasing with time
(b) Decreasing with time
28. A bullet fired into a fixed target loses half of its (c) Constant but not zero
velocity after penetrating 3 cm. How much (d) Zero
further it will penetrate before coming to rest
assuming that it faces constant resistance to 36. The instantaneous velocity of a body can be
motion? measured
(a) 1.5 cm (b) 1.0 cm (a) Graphically (b) Vectorially
(c) 3.0 cm (d) 2.0 cm (c) By speedometer (d) None of these
29. Two boys are standing at the ends A and B of a 37. A body is moving from rest under constant
ground where AB = a . The boy at B starts acceleration and let S 1 be the displacement in
running in a direction perpendicular to AB with
the first (p − 1) sec and S 2 be the displacement
velocity v1 . The boy at A starts running
in the first p sec . The displacement in
simultaneously with velocity v and catches the
other boy in a time t, where t is (p 2 − p + 1)th sec. will be
(a) S1 + S 2 (b) S1S 2
(a) a / v 2 + v12 (b) a 2 /(v 2 − v12 )
(c) S1 − S 2 (d) S1 / S 2
(c) a /(v − v1 ) (d) a /(v + v1 )
30. A car travels half the distance with constant
38. A body under the action of several forces will
velocity of 40 kmph and the remaining half with
have zero acceleration
a constant velocity of 60 kmph. The average
(a) When the body is very light
velocity of the car in kmph is
(b) When the body is very heavy
(a) 40 (b) 45
(c) When the body is a point body
(c) 48 (d) 50
(d) When the vector sum of all the forces
acting on it is zero
31. A particle experiences a constant acceleration
for 20 sec after starting from rest. If it travels a
39. A body starts from the origin and moves along the
distance S 1 in the first 10 sec and a distance S 2
X-axis such that the velocity at any instant is given
in the next 10 sec, then
by (4 t 3 − 2t) , where t is in sec and velocity in m / s
(a) S 1 = S 2 (b) S 1 = S 2 / 3
. What is the acceleration of the particle, when it is
(c) S 1 = S 2 / 2 (d) S 1 = S 2 / 4 2 m from the origin
(a) 28 m / s 2 (b) 22 m / s 2
32. The displacement x of a particle along a
(c) 12 m / s 2 (d) 10 m / s 2
straight line at time t is given by
x = a 0 + a1 t + a 2 t 2 . The acceleration of the
40. The relation between time and distance is
particle is
t = x 2 + x , where  and  are constants. The
(a) a 0 (b) a 1
retardation is
(c) 2a 2 (d) a 2
(a) 2v 3 (b) 2 v 3
(c) 2v 3 (d) 2  2 v 3