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Possible vs Impossible Situations

For questions 1 to 12 assume that the particle is moving with uniform acceleration
in a straight line. Read the situation given and state whether the situation is
possible or impossible (keeping in mind that the particle must be uniformly
accelerated).

1. The particle moves on the x-axis. It starts from x = 6 m with initial velocity = +3 m/s. After sometime you
see it at x = 0 m. When the particle passed x = 8 m, it has a speed of 5 m/s.

2. The particle moves on the x-axis. It starts from x = 6 m with initial velocity = +3 m/s. After sometime you
see it at x = 0 m. When the particle passed x = 2 m, it has a speed of 5 m/s.

3. A particle moves with uniform acceleration of magnitude 1 m/s2. The initial speed of the particle is 3 m/s.
After travelling a distance of 2 m, the particle stops. After sometime the particle has a speed 6 m/s.

4. A particle moves with uniform acceleration of magnitude 1 m/s2. The initial speed of the particle is 3 m/s.
After sometime the particle’s speed is 2 m/s. After travelling a total distance of 8 m from the starting
position, the particle has a speed 5 m/s.

5. The particle’s initial velocity is +3 m/s. Its final speed is 2 m/s. It has a displacement of s = -6 m.

6. The particle’s initial velocity is +3 m/s. Its final speed is 2 m/s. It has a displacement of s = +6 m.

7. The particle’s initial velocity is +3 m/s. Its final speed is 4 m/s. It has a displacement of s = -6 m.

8. The particle’s initial velocity is +3 m/s. Its final speed is 4 m/s. It has a displacement of s = +6 m.

9. The particle has initial velocity = +5 m/s. It has acceleration = - 2 m/s2. When t = 4 seconds, it is decelerating.

10. The particle has initial velocity = +15 m/s. It has acceleration = - 2 m/s2. When t = 4 seconds, it is
decelerating.

11. A particle that is accelerating uniformly forever starts with a speed of 6 m/s and never reaches a speed of
8 m/s.

12. A particle that is accelerating uniformly forever starts with a speed of 6 m/s never reaches a speed of 2 m/s.
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Motion in a Straight Line II

13. A ball dropped from the roof of a building takes 0.6 seconds to cross a mural painting that starts at the
base of the building and reaches up 9 m high. Find the height of the building.

14. A cat standing near a window of height 1.4 m sees a ball projected from below, going up, vanishing and
then coming down again. If the total time the ball was in the cat’s sight is 0.4 seconds, find the height
above the top of the window that the ball reaches up to.

15. A particle moving in a straight line with uniform acceleration a starts at t=0s with an initial velocity of u.
Find the displacement of the particle during its nth second of motion.

16. A particle is moving in a straight line with uniform acceleration. If the U, V, W are average velocities for
W−V
three successive intervals of time T, 3T and 9T respectively, then find the ratio:
𝑉−𝑈

17. A particle moves in a straight line without turning back. It moves with a uniform acceleration and covers
a total distance of 3d. The average speed of the particle for the first one-third of the distance (d) is 10
m/s and the average speed for the last one-third of the distance (d) is 40 m/s. Find the average speed
of the particle when it covers the for the middle one-third distance.

18. Saurabh and his son Kavin decide to have a race. Kavin finishes the race t seconds before Saurabh and
has a finishing speed which is v = 4t m/s more than Saurabh’s. Assuming both started from rest and
accelerated uniformly, find the product of their accelerations.