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SECTION-1 SINGLE CORRECT ANSWER TYPE
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ALTERNATIVE. ONLY ONE CHOICE IS CORRECT :
1. In the figure, the man is moving on the track and
rain appeared to him as shown by arrows. Find the
actual speed of the rain in meter per second.
(A) 10 3
(B) 10 / 3
(C) 5 3
(D) 5/ 3

2. A man sitting in the rear end of a long compartment of a train running at constant horizontal velocity
tosses a ball to his friend sitting opposite to him near the front end of the compartment. The trajectory
of the ball is drawn by a physics student sitting in the compartment and by a classmate of his, standing
on the ground. The two trajectories will have :
(A) different vertical ranges, but equal horizontal ranges
(B) equal horizontal and equal vertical ranges
(C) equal vertical ranges but different horizontal ranges
(D) different vertical and different horizontal ranges

3. A bead moves along a straight horizontal wire of length L, starting from the left end with velocity v0 .
Its retardation is proportional to the distance that remains to the right end of the wire. Find the initial
v0
retardation (at left end of the wire) if the bead reaches the right end of the wire with a velocity .
2
3v02 v02 v02 3v02
(A) (B) (C) (D)
4L 2L 4L 2L

4. In the system shown, the acceleration of the wedge of

mass 5 M is : (There is no friction anywhere)
(A) zero
(B) g/2
(C) g/3
(D) g/4

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5. A material particle is chasing another one and both of them are

moving on the same straight line. After they pass a particular
point, their velocities u vary with time t as shown in the figure.
When will the chase end ?
(A) 4.0 s (B) 6.0 s
(C) 12 s (D) Insufficient information

6. A horizontal electric wire is stretched at a height h  10 m above

the ground. A boy standing on the ground can throw a stone at a
speed u  20 ms 1. Find the maximum horizontal distance x at
which a bird sitting on the wire can be hit by the stone.
(A) 10 m (B) 20 m
(C) 20 2 m (D) 40 m

7. A smooth spherical ball is resting on two identical blocks A and

B as shown in the figure. The blocks are moved apart with same
horizontal velocity V  1 m/s in opposite directions (see figure).
As a result, the sphere moves down. Find the acceleration of
centre of sphere at the instant separation between the blocks is
a  2 R; R  1.0 m being the radius of the ball.
(A) 0 (B) 1 m/s 2 (C) 4 2 m/s 2 (D) 2 2 m/s 2

8. A homogeneous bar of mass m is released from rest on a fixed inclined

plane of inclination  above the horizontal as shown. The upper part of
the plane shown in dark grey is not frictionless and the lower part
shown in light grey is frictionless. Coefficient of friction between the
bar and the upper part of the plane is  . What will be the maximum
tensile force in the bar while it is sliding on the plane? Acceleration of
free fall is g.
(A) Zero (B) 0.25 mg cos  (C) 0.5 mg cos  (D) mg cos 

9. A box of dimension H×B×R is kept on a frictionless

inclined plane as shown in the figure. A stone is
thrown from one corner P with speed u parallel to the
ceiling of the box. At the same instant, the box is
released to slide down the plane. Calculate the time of
flight of the stone if it is observed to hit the floor of
box.
2H 2H H
(A) (B) (C) (D) Cannot be calculated
g cos g g cos

10. Three blocks A, B, and C whose masses are 9 kg, 9 kg and 18 kg respectively as shown in the figure,
are released from rest. The co-efficient of friction between block A and the horizontal surface is 0.5 &
the co-efficient of friction between block B and the horizontal surface is 0.5. Find the acceleration of
block C just after release [Take g = 10 m/s2]. All strings and pulleys are ideal.
30 50
(A) m /s 2 (B) m /s 2
9 9
70 80
(C) m /s 2 (D) m /s 2
9 9

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SECTION-2 MULTIPLE CORRECT ANSWER TYPE

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ALTERNATIVES. MORE THAN ONE CHOICES ARE CORRECT :
11. In the figure shown two boats start with different speed relative to
water simultaneously. Water flow speed is same for both the boats.
Mark the correct statements.  A and  B are angles from a y-axis at
which boats are heading at initial moment.
(A) If VA  VB then for reaching the other bank simultaneously
 A  B
(B) In case (A) drift of boat A is greater than boat B
(C) If VB  VA and  A   B , boat B reaches other bank earlier than boat A
(D) If VB  VA and  A   B , drift of A is greater

12. 
A particle is projected from origin with velocity u  i  j  2kˆ m/s .  z ( kˆ )
Horizontal surface lies in X  Y plane, then: (take g = 10 m/sec2)
2 2
(A) Time of flight  sec (B) Horizontal range = m

1
5
1
5 O y  j 
(C) Maximum height
10
m (D) Maximum height = m
5 
x ˆi

13. Two blocks of masses 2 kg and 4 kg are placed over each other as
shown in the adjoining figure. The coefficient of kinetic and static
friction are as shown in the figure. A variable force F = 4t starts
acting on the 4 kg block as shown. Choose the correct options from
the following. ( a4 and a2 represent the accelerations of 4 kg and 2
kg blocks, respectively.)

(A) (B) (C) (D)

14. A particle moves along a straight line so that its velocity depends on time as v  4t  t 2 . Then for first 5s:
25 1
(A) Average velocity is ms (B) Average speed is 10 ms 1
3
5
(C) Average velocity is ms 1 (D) Acceleration is 4 ms 1 at t = 0
3

15. A thin rod of length ‘b’ is suspended horizontally using ideal strings
tied to both ends of the rod. The length of the strings is ‘a’. The rod is
given an initial angular speed  about its central axis. Let y be the
upwards displacement of rod’s centre in a small time interval and F
be the increment in the tension in each string just after the rod was
given the angular speed.
b2 b2 mb 2 2 mb 2 2
(A) y  (t ) 2 (B) y  (t ) (C) F   (D) F 
8a 2a 4a 8a

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16. A block of mass m = 2 kg rests on a rough horizontal surface. The

coefficient of friction between block and surface is   0.5. The block
is acted upon by a horizontal time varying force as shown. Then:
(A) The block starts moving at time t = 1 s
(B) The maximum velocity acquired by the block is 25 m/s
(C) The maximum velocity attained by the block is 20 m/s
(D) Velocity of block at t = 6 sec is 12.5 m/s

17. If the velocity of the particle is given by v  x and initially particle was at x = 4m, then which of the
following are correct?
(A) At t = 2 sec, the position of the particle is x = 9 m
(B) Particle acceleration at t = 2 sec is 1 m /s 2
(C) Particle acceleration is 1/2 m /s 2 through-out the motion
(D) Particle will never go in negative direction from its starting position

18. A boy takes 60 min to swim across a river if his goal is to minimize time, and takes 180 min if his goal
is to minimize to zero the distance that he is carried downstream. In both these attempts, the boy swims
with the same speed relative to the river current. Which of the following statements can be true?
(A) He can swim relative to water faster than the river current
(B) He cannot swim relative to water faster than the river current
(C) If width of the river is 3 2 km , speed of river current is 4 km/h
(D) If he crosses a 3 2 km km wide river in 60 2 min., he will be carried 2 km downstream

19. A model rocket fired from the ground ascends with a constant upward acceleration. A small bolt is
dropped from the rocket 1.0 s after the firing and fuel of the rocket is finished 4.0 s after the bolt is
dropped. Air-time of the bolt is 2.0 s. Acceleration of free fall is 10 m / s 2 . Which of the following
statements is/are correct?
(A) Acceleration of the rocket while ascending on its fuel is 8.0 m / s 2 .
(B) Fuel of the rocket was finished at a height 100 m above the ground.
(C) Maximum speed of the rocket during its upward flight is 40 m/s.
(D) Total air-time of the rocket is 15s

20. 1 kg and 4 kg block lie on a rough horizontal surface. The

coefficient of friction between 4 kg block and surface is 0.2
while the coefficient of friction between 1 kg block and the
surface is 0.6. All the pulley shown in the figure are
massless and frictionless and all strings are massless.
(A) The frictional force acting on 1 kg block is 2 N
(B) The frictional force acting on 1 kg block is 6 N
(C) The tension in the string connecting 4 kg block and 1 kg block is 2N
(D) The tension in the string connecting 1 kg block and 4 kg block is zero

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SECTION-3 LINK-COMPREHENSION TYPE

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ALTERNATIVE FOR THE QUESTIONS BASED ON PARAGRAPHS

Paragraph for Questions 21 - 22
A stone is dropped from the top of a tower and before it hits the ground
another stone is also dropped. Separation s between the stones is
plotted against time t assuming that the stones do not bounce from the
ground. Portions OA and BC of the graph are parabolic, while portion
AB is a straight line. Acceleration due to gravity is 10 m/s 2 .

21. Height of the tower is:

(A) 25 m (B) 30 m (C) 40 m (D) 45 m
22. When the first stone hits the ground, the second stone was moving with
(A) 10 m/s at a height 40 m (B) 10 m/s at a height 25 m
(C) 20 m/s at a height 20 m (D) 20 m/s at a height 25 m

Paragraph for Questions 23 - 25

A toy plane P starts flying from point A along a straight
horizontal line 20 m above ground level starting with zero
initial velocity and acceleration 2 m/s2 as shown. At the
same instant, a man throws a ball vertically upwards from
point Q (as shown in figure) with initial velocity ‘u’. Ball
just touches (coming to rest) the base of the plane at point
B of plane’s journey when it is vertically above the man.
‘s’ is the distance of point B from point A. Just after the
contact of ball with the plane, acceleration of plane
increases to 4 m/s2. For the situation described in the
passage answer the following questions. Ignore the length
of plane, and height of man. (g = 10 m/s2)
23. Initial velocity ‘u’ of ball is :
(A) 5 m/s (B) 10 m/s (C) 20 m/s (D) 40 m/s
24. Distance ‘s’ shown in the figure is :
(A) 4m (B) 8m (C) 10 m (D) 20m
25. Distance between man and plane when the man catches the ball back is :
(A) 525 m (B) 544 m (C) 656 m (D) 20 m

Paragraph for Questions 26 - 27

A steamer plies between two stations A and B on opposite banks of a river, always following the path AB. The
distance between stations A and B is 1200 m. The line AB makes an angle 60° with the direction of the flow.
The velocity of the current is 6 m/s and is constant over the entire width of the river. The steamer takes 5 min to
cover the distance AB and back.
26. The velocity of steamer with respect to water is:
(A) 85 m /s (B) 108 m /s (C) 11 m/s (D) 13 m/s

27. In what direction the steamer should head with respect to line AB ?
1  3 
(A) 30º (B) 45º (C) tan 1 (D) tan 1  
2  7

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Paragraph for Questions 28 - 30

A horizontal conveyor belt is running at a constant speed vb  3.0 m/s.
A small disc enters the belt moving horizontally with a velocity
v0  4.0 m/s that is perpendicular to the velocity of the belt. Coefficient
of friction between the disc and the belt is 0.50.
28. What can you predict regarding the path of the disc?
(A) It is a parabola relative to the belt.
(B) It is a straight line relative to the belt.
(C) It is a parabola relative to the ground.
(D) It is a straight line relative to the ground.
29. What should the minimum width of the belt be so that the disc always remains on the belt?
(A) 0.9 m (B) 1.6 m (C) 2.0 m (D) 2.5 m
30. What is the minimum speed of the disc relative to the ground?
(A) 0.0 m/s (B) 1.8 m/s (C) 2.4 m/s (D) 3.0 m/s

SECTION-4 COLUMN MATCHING TYPE

MATCH THE TWO COLUMNS
31. System of blocks are placed on a smooth horizontal system, as
shown. For a particular value of F, 3 kg block is just about to
3
leave ground. (tan37°= )
4

Column -I Column -II

(A) Tension in string 1 (P) 80 N
(B) Tension in string 2 (Q) 64 N
(C) Net force by ground on 5 kg block (R) 50 N
(D) Net force on 3 kg block (S) 24 N

32. Two blocks A and B of mass m and 2m are placed on a fixed triangular
wedge by massless inextensible string as shown. The pulley is massless and
frictionless. The coefficient of friction between block A and the wedge is
2/3 and that between B and the wedge is 1/3. (Take m = 1 kg, g = 10 m/s2)

Column -I Column -II

5
(A) Friction force between block A and wedge (P) unit
2
10
(B) Friction force between block B and wedge (Q) unit
3 2
10 2
(C) Tension in the string (R) unit
3
(D) Maximum friction force between Block B and wedge (S) 30 2 unit
20 2
(T) unit
3

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33. A particle is projected vertically upwards with speed 20 m/s from top of a tower
of height 20 m as shown in figure. Given B is top most point of trajectory and C
is at same height as A:
Column -I Column –II
(A) Ratio of maximum height from ground (BD) to the (P) 1/ 2
initial height from ground (AD) is
(B) Ratio of distance traveled in 1st second to the distance (Q) 1
travelled in 2nd second is
(C) Ratio of initial speed at A to the final speed just before (R) 2
reaching to ground (D) is
(D) Ratio of time taken from A to C and time taken from A (S) 3
to B is

34. A car is moving along a straight line. It’s displacement (x) – time (t) graph is shown in column II.
Match the entries in column I with points on graph.
Column -I Column –II
(A) x  negative, v  positive, a  positive (P)
(B) x  positive, v  negative, a  negative (Q)
(C) x  negative, v  negative, a  positive (R)
(D) x  positive, v  positive, a  negative (S)

35. Two inclined planes OA and OB having inclination (with

horizontal) 30° and 60° respectively, intersect each other
at O as shown in figure. A particle is projected from
point P with velocity u  10 3 ms –1 along a direction
perpendicular to plane OA and it strikes plane OB
perpendicularly at Q. (Take g  10 m/s 2 )

Column -I Column -II

(A) Velocity with which particle strikes the plane OB (P) 16.25 m
(B) Velocity at max. height (Q) 5 3 m /s
(C) Distance PQ (R) 10 m/s
(D) Maximum height from O, attained by the particle (S) 2 sec.
(E) Time of flight (T) 20 m

SECTION-5 NUMERICAL VALUE TYPE

EACH QUESTION HAS ANSWER. AS A NUMERICAL VALUE

36. A block of mass m = 5 kg is placed on the wedge of mass M = 32 kg as shown

in the figure. Find the acceleration of wedge with respect to ground (in m/s 2 ) .
(Neglect any type of friction. String and pulley are ideal, g  10 m/s 2 )

37. A fighter plane is flying horizontally at a height of 250 m from ground with constant velocity of 500
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100 m/s. Find the duration of time (in seconds) for which the plane is in danger of being hit by a cannon
shell. ( g  10 m/s 2 )
38. A ball is thrown vertically up with a certain velocity from the top of a tower of height 40 m. At 4.5 m
above the top of the tower its speed is exactly half of that it will have at 4.5 m below the top of the
tower. The maximum height reached by the ball above the ground is ______ (in m) ( g  10 m/s 2 ) .

39. In the figure, the blocks A, B and C have masses 3 kg, 4 kg and 8 kg
respectively. The coefficient of sliding friction between any two surfaces
is 0.25, A is held at rest by a massless rigid rod fixed to the wall, while B
and C are connected by a light flexible cord passing around a fixed
frictionless pulley. Find the force F (in Newtons) necessary to drag C
along the horizontal surface to the left at a constant speed.
Assume that the arrangement shown in the figure. i.e., B on C and A on B, is maintained throughout.
(Take g  10 m/s 2 ).

40. In the diagram shown, particle is projected with velocity 40 m/s

horizontally from a height 20 m above the horizontal level from a
point P on wall (1). Path of this particle is shown in the figure.
Assume perfectly elastic collision of the particle with the smooth
walls. Find the distance x (in m) of the point on the ground from
the right wall (2) where the particle will strike the ground. Distance
between the two walls is 30 m. ( g  10 m/s 2 )

41. Three blocks A, B and C each of mass m

are arranged in pulley string system as
shown in the figure. All pulleys are
massless and frictionless, while all strings
are light and inextensible. Coefficient of
kinetic friction,  between block A and
horizontal surface is equal to 0.5 and force
P acts on it. The value of P/mg for which
block C does not move, is __________.
42. At a particular instant, a particle moving with a constant velocity is approaching a fixed point with a
velocity u  3 m/s and after a time interval t  6 s , the particle passes the position closest to the fixed
point with a velocity v  5 m/s. Find the closest distance between the fixed point and the particle (in
m).
43. A plank of mass 10 kg rests on a smooth horizontal surface. Two
blocks A and B of masses m A  2 kg and mB  1 kg lie at a
distance of 3m on the plank as shown in the figure. The friction
coefficient between the blocks and plank are  A  0.3 and
 B  0.1 . Now a force F = 15 N is applied to the plank in
horizontal direction. Find the time (in seconds) after which block
A collides with B.

44. Two identical boats are moving relative to the water current with equal speed vb/w  1.0 m/s. To a boy
standing on the ground, the first boat appears moving perpendicular to the river current and to another
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certain time interval, distances of the boats from the shoreline increase by y1  4.0 m and y2  5.0 m
respectively. Calculate speed of the river current (in m/s).
45. A ball dropped on a large inclined plane, bounces repeatedly. Every bounce is perfectly elastic i.e. there
is no loss of speed and lines of motion make equal angles with the incline plane before and after the
bounce. Find ratio of distance R12 between the first and the second bounce to distance R23 between the
second and the third bounce.

SECTION-6 SUBJECTIVE TYPE

46. A heavy block ‘B’ is sliding with constant velocity u on a

horizontal table. The width of the block is L. There is an insect A
at a distance d from the block as shown in the figure. The insect
wants to cross to the opposite side of the table. It begins to crawl
at a constant velocity v at the instant shown in the figure. Find the
least value of v for which the insect can cross to the other side
without getting hit by the block.
47. Two persons are pulling a heavy block with the help of horizontal
inextensible strings. At the instant shown, the velocities of the two
persons are v1 and v2 directed along the respective strings with the
strings making an angle of 60° between them.
(i) Find the speed of the block at the instant shown.
(ii) For what ratio of v1 and v2 the instantaneous velocity of the
block will be along the direction of v1.

48. A particle is moving in the xy plane on a sinusoidal course determined by y  A sin kx, where k and A
are constants. The X component of the velocity of the particle is constant and is equal to v0 and the
particle was at origin at time t  0. Find the acceleration of the particle when it is at point having x co-

ordinate x  .
2k
49. A smooth cylinder is fixed with its axis horizontal. Radius of the cylinder is R.
A uniform rope ( ACB ) of linear mass density  (kg/m) is exactly of length
R and is held in semicircular shape in vertical plane around the cylinder as
shown in figure. Two massless strings are connected at the two ends of the rope
and are pulled up vertically with force T0 to keep the rope in contact with the
cylinder. Find minimum value of T0 so that the rope does not lose contact with
the cylinder at any point.
50. There is a large wedge placed on a horizontal surface with its
incline face making an angle of 37° to the horizontal. A particle
is projected in vertically upward direction with a velocity of
u  6.5 m/s from a point O on the inclined surface. At the
instant the particle is projected, the wedge begins to move
horizontally with a constant acceleration of a  4 m/s 2 . At what
distance from point O will the particle hit the incline surface if
(i) direction of a is along BC ?
(ii) direction of a is along AB ?

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Answers to Physics Class Tutorial Sheet-1

Physics
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B C A A B C C B A C

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

ABCD ABC AC CD AD AC ACD ACD ABCD AC

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

D D C A C B A BC C C

31 32 33 34

A-Q, B-R, C-P, D-S A-Q, B-R, C-T, D-R A-R, B-S, C-P, D-R A-S, B-Q, C-R, D-P

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A-R, B-Q, C-T, D-P, E-S 0.60 2.83 47.50 80 10 5 40

43 44 45 46 47

uL 2 v1
6 0.60 0.50 vmin  (i) v v12  v22  v1v2 (ii) 2
d 2  L2 3 v2

48 49 50

 (2Rg )
a   Ak 2v02 ˆj (i) 3.38 m (ii) 2.5 m

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