Motion

Question 1. A object goes from point X to Y and then come back from Y to X. What is the displacement and average
velocity?

Question 2. Write down the difference between Scalars and Vectors?

Question 3. Four Cyclist A,B,C ,D starts at the same point and at the same time and move in a straight line to reach
destination .They all move with uniform velocities. They reach the destination in the following order
C→A→B→DC→A→B→D

Question 4. What do you infer if? 

Distance –time graph is straight line

Velocity –time graph is curved
Displacement –time is zig zag

Question 5. What is the difference between Uniform Accelerated and Non Uniform accelerated motion?

Question 6. What happens to speed, velocity acceleration when an object moves in a circle with uniform speed?

Question 7. When an object is thrown upwards, what is true of velocity and acceleration at the highest point of motion
of the object?

Question 8. True and False Statements

A) Displacement can be zero but distance never
B) Displacement magnitude can be greater than distance travelled by the object
C) Time is a vector quantity
D) If the velocity of the body decreases with time, the acceleration is negative (retardation), and the motion is called
decelerated motion
E) The area of the velocity time graph gives displacement of the body
F) Acceleration is a scalar quantity
G) Motion and rest are relative terms
I) an object can be moving with Uniform speed but variable acceleration

Question 9. Gave the formula for each?

1 Relation between Initial, final velocity ,acceleration and displacement in a uniformly accelerated
straight line motion
2 Average velocity
3 Relation between Initial, final velocity ,acceleration and time in a uniformly accelerated straight
line motion
4 Relation between Initial velocity ,acceleration ,displacement and time in a uniformly
accelerated straight line motion
5 Average acceleration
6 Average speed

Question 10. Difference between Speed and Velocity?

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Short Answer Based questions for Motion

1. What is unit of acceleration?

2. What is zero uniform velocity motion?
3. A body moving in a circle with constant speed. Is it acceleration?
4. A body goes from point A to B and then return then from B to A. what is the total displacement?
5. Acceleration is a vector quantity True or false?
6. what is the path of a velocity –time graph of a body moving with uniform acceleration
7. what all ways the velocity of the body can be changed?
8. What is average speed?

Match the column

Column A Column B
The Slope of the speed-time graph is called Average Velocity

The arithmetic mean of initial and final velocity distance

What quantity is obtained by the area under speed acceleration

time graph
The slope of the distance time graph Speed

Table type question

A car moves in a straight line from rest at t=0. It accelerates with 2m/s2. Solve the following table

Time 2sec ? ? 10 min

Displacement ? ? 25 meter ?
Velocity ? 10 m/s ? ?

Fill in the blanks

1. A car starts at rest and travel a distance 20 m in 1 sec .The car average speed is ……………..
2. Motion of earth around sun is an example of …………. motion
3. Tractor moving with 18 km/h is ……….. then car moving with 1500 m/min
4. The motion of a free falling body is an example of ………………….. motion
5. The curved speed time graph represent …………………accelerated motion
6. Distance is a ………quantity while displacement is a ………………… quantity

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Crossword Puzzle

Across
2. Physical quantity obtained by dividing displacement with time taken
3. A quantity having both magnitude and direction
4. This remains constant in uniform circular motion
6. It is the slope of speed -time graph
8. This measure the distance travelled by the car
Down
1. This is the other name for negative acceleration
4. The speed is said to be a
5. This is the acceleration of the body with uniform velocity
7. This measure the speed of the car 

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Question 1 A train accelerates from 36 km/h to 54 km/h in 10 sec. 
(i) Acceleration 
(ii) The distance travelled by car.

Question 2 A body whose speed is constant

(a) Must be accelerated
(b) Might be accelerated
(c) Has a constant velocity
(d) cannot be accelerated.

Question 3 A truck traveling at 54 km/h is slow down to 36 km/h in 10 sec. Find the retardation?
Question 4 A particle is moving in a circle of diameter 20m. What is its distance and as per the table given
below

S.N. Round Displacement Distance

1 1
2 1.5
3 2
4 2.5

Question 5
A scooter travelling at 10 m/s speed up to 20 m/s in 4 sec. Find the acceleration of train. 

Question 6 A train starts from rest and accelerate uniformly at the rate of 5 m/s2 for 5 sec. Calculate the
velocity of train in 5 sec.

Question 7
A object moves with uniform positive acceleration. Its velocity-time graph will be 
(a) A straight line parallel to the time axis
(b) A straight line inclined at an obtuse angle to the time axis
(c) A straight line inclined at an acute angle to the time axis
(d) None of these.

Question 8
The maximum speed of a train is 90 km/h. It takes 10 hours to cover a distance of 500 km. Find the ratio of its
average speed to maximum speed?
Question 9
9 A car start from rest and acquire a velocity of 54 km/h in 2 sec. Find
(i) the acceleration 
(ii) distance travelled by car assume motion of car is uniform?

Question 10
An object dropped from a cliff falls with a constant acceleration of 10 m/s2. Find its speed 5 s after it was
dropped.

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Question 11
11 A ball is thrown upwards and it goes to the height 100 m and comes down
1) What is the net displacement?
2) What is the net distance?

MOTION
Question 1
A particle is moving up an inclined plane. Its velocity changes from 15m/s to 10m/s in two seconds. What is its
acceleration?       
Question 2
The velocity changes from 45m/s to 60m/s in Three seconds. What is its acceleration?       
Question 3
A body covered a distance of z metre along a semicircular path. Calculate the magnitude of displacement of
the body, and the ratio of distance to displacement?
Question 4
A particle moving with an initial velocity of 5m/s is subjected to a uniform acceleration of 2.5m/s2. Find the
displacement in the next 4 sec.      
Question 5
A train is travelling at a speed of 60 km/ h. Brakes are applied so as to produce a uniform acceleration of −0.5
m /s2. Find how far the train will go before it is brought to rest.
Question 6
A Truck covers 30km at a uniform speed of 30km/hr. what should be its speed for the next 90km if the average
speed for the entire journey is 60km/h?       
Question 7
A stone is thrown in a vertically upward direction with a velocity of 10 m/s. If the acceleration of the stone
during its motion is 10 m /s2 in the downward direction, what will be the height attained by the stone and how
much time will it take to reach there?
Question 8
A person goes to market, makes purchases and comes back at a constant slower speed. Draw displacement-
time and velocity time graphs of the person?
Question 9
John runs for 10 min. at a uniform speed 9km/h. At what speed should he run for the next 20 min. so that the
average speed comes 12km/hr?      
Question 10
A particle was at rest from 1 a.m. It moved at a uniform speed 50km/hr from 1.30 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. Find the
average speed between
(a) 1.00 a.m. and 2.00 a.m.
(b) 1.15 a.m. and 2.00 a.m.   
(c) 1.30 a.m. and 2.00 a.m      

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Question 11
An object moves along a circular path of diameter 14cm with constant speed. If it takes 2 min. to move from a
point on the path to the diametrically opposite point. Find
(a) The distance covered by the object
(b) The speed
(c) The displacement
(d) average velocity.

Question 12
A particle with a velocity of 2m/s a t=0 moves along a straight line with a constant acceleration of 0.2m/s2. Find
the displacement of the particle in 10s?

Question 13
A particle is pushed along a horizontal surface in such a way that it starts with a velocity of 12m/s. Its velocity
decreases at a uniform rate of 0.5m/s2. (a) Find the time it will take to come to rest.

(b) Find the distance covered by it before coming to rest?

Question 14
A train accelerated from 20km/hr to 80km/hr in 4 minutes. How much distance does it cover in this period?
Assume that the tracks are straight?

Question 15

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

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 Motion
Question 1
Below Figure represents the speed time graph for a particle. Find the distance covered by the particle
a) between t= 30min. and t= 40min.
b) between t=10 min and t=40 min
c) what is the speed of the particle

Question 2
A particle starts from rest and moves with a uniform acceleration of
5m/s2 for 10s and then it moves with a constant velocity for 4s. Later
it slows down and comes to rest in 5s. Draw the velocity graph for the
motion of the body and answer the following questions:
a) What is the maximum velocity attended by the body?
b) What is the distance travelled during this period of acceleration?
c) What is distance travelled when the body was moving with constant velocity?
d) What is the retardation of the body while slowing down?
e) What is the distance travelled by retarding?
f) What is the total distance travelled?
Question 3
Two object are thrown vertically upwards simultaneously with their velocities x and y respectively. Prove that
a) The heights reached by them would be in the ratio of x2: y2
b) The time taken to reach the maximum height would be in the ratio of x:y
(Assume upward acceleration is –g and downward acceleration to be +g).

Question 4
True and false questions
a) Displacement cannot be zero
b) Average speed= Total distance/time
c) Average velocity = Total displacement /time
d) slope of distance-time graph indicates the speed
e) It is possible to have Object moving with uniform speed but variable acceleration.
f) It is possible to have Object moving with uniform velocity but non-uniform acceleration.

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Question 5
Find the distance covered by a particle during the time interval t=0 and
t=4s for which the speed time graph is shown in figure
Question 6
Figure shows distance time graph of three objects A B and C
a) which object is moving with a greater speed
b) which object is moving with slowest speed

Question 7
arc runs from one end to the other end of a semicircular
track whose radius is 140m. What is the distance covered by
the marc and what is his displacement?  
Question 8
A jogger moves 500m in 2 minutes and next 1000m in 30s on the same straight path. What is his
average speed and average velocity?
Question 9
A big truck moving along a straight line at a speed of 54km/hr stop in 5s after the breaks are applied.
1. Find the acceleration, assuming it to constant.
2. Plot the graph of speed versus time.
3.   Using the graph. Find the distance covered by the car after the brakes are applied?
Question 10
A swimmer swims 90m long pool. He covers the distance of 180m by swimming from one end to
other end back along the same path. If he covers the first 90m at speed of 2m/s, then how fast he
swim so that his average speed is 3m/s?
Question 11
a) Write the difference between Distance and displacement
b) Write the difference between Uniform and Non uniform Motion
Question 12
Lori moves 4m due east and then 3m due west.
1. What is the distance covered by the Lori?
2. What is its displacement? 
Question 13
A car moves at a speed of 40km/h, It is stopped by applying brakes which produces a uniform
acceleration of -0.6m/s2. How much distance will the vehicle move before coming to stop?
Question 14
A person walks along the sides of a square field. Each side is 10m long. What is the maximum
magnitude of displacement of the person in any time interval?
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Motion
Question 1. What does the odometer of an automobiles measure? Under what condition is the magnitude of average
velocity of an object equal to its average speed?

Question 2.  (a) What is the quantity which is measured by the area occupied below the velocity time graph? (b) A train
starting from rest attains a velocity of 72 km/h in 5 minutes. Assuming that the acceleration is uniform, find out the (i)
acceleration and (ii) the distance travelled by the train for attending this velocity?

Question 3. A bullet of mass 10g travelling horizontally with a velocity of 150m/s strikes a stationary wooden block  and
comes to the rest in 0.03 s. calculate the distance of penetration of the bullet into the block. Also calculate the
magnitude of the force exerted by the wooden block on the bullet.

Question 4.. Explain why is difficult for a fireman to hold a house, which ejects large amounts of  water at a high
velocity?

Question 5. Differentiate between uniform acceleration and non uniform acceleration? Define one Newton.

Question 6. A car is accelerated uniformly from 36 km per hour to 90 km per hour in 3 seconds. Calculate: (a) The
acceleration of car   (b)The distance covered by the car in that time.

Question 7.. State Newton’s 1st law of motion? Why is it called as law of inertia? Define inertia? On what factors does
inertia depends? Does inertia play any role for an object moving on a frictionless surface with uniform speed? Justify
your answer. Which of the following has more inertia- 10kg cotton bale or 5kg iron block?

Question 8.. State Newon’s third law. Are the forces mentioned in the law balanced forces why? Will they always
produce acceleration of equal magnitude? Why?

Question 9.. What is law of conservation of momentum? Derive it? Which would require a greater force to accelerate a
½ kg mass at 5 m/s2 or a 4 kg mass at 2 m/s2? Give reason.

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Question 10.. What happens when we accidentally step on a peel of banana? Explain with reference to Newton’s law of
motion.
Question 11. Derive the velocity- position equation of motion (v 2=u2+2aS) graphically (with the help of a velocity- time
graph).

Question 12.. A motorcyclist riding motorcycle A who is travelling at 36 km/h applies the brakes and stops the
motorcycle in 10 s. Another motorcyclist of motorcycle B who is travelling at 18 km/h applies the breaks and stops the
motorcycle in 20s. Plot speed-time graph for the two motorcycles. Which of the two motorcycles traveled farther before
it comes to a stop?

Question 13.. Abdul while driving to school, computes the average speed for his trip to be 20 km/h. on his return trio
along th same route, there is less traffic and the average speed is 30km/h. what s the average speed for abdul’s trip?

Question 14.. A scooter is moving with an initial velocity of 90 km/hr and it takes 10s to stop it, after the brakes are
applied. Calculate the force exerted by the brakes on the scooter if its mass along with the rider is 200 kg.What would be
the force if the mass is halved?

Question 15..  (a) A body starts from rest and gains a velocity of 6 m/s in 2s of time. Find the acceleration of the body
and its average velocity for the given time:  (b) A force of 24 N produces an acceleration of 3m/s 2 on a body of
mass m1 and an acceleration of 2m/s2 on a body of mass m2. What acceleration does it produce when applied on a
combination of the two bodies?

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