MCQ’s Chapters 5 & 6 Physics –Class XI

1. A player caught a cricket ball of mass 150 g moving with a speed of 20 m/s. If the catching process is
completed in 0.1 s, the force of the blow exerted by the ball on the hand of the player is equal to
(a) 150 N (b) 3 N (c) 30 N (d) 300 N

2. A particle of mass 0.3 kg is subjected to a force F = - kx with k = 15 N/m. What will be its initial
acceleration, if it is released from a point 20 cm away from the origin?
(a) 3 m/s2 (b) 15 m/s2 (c) 5 m/s2 (d) 10 m/s2

3. Two masses 5 kg and 4.8 kg are tied to the both ends of a string, which is passing over a light frictionless
pulley, hanging from a fixed support. When these masses are released to move freely, then acceleration of
these masses will be,
(a) 0.2 m/s2 (b) 9.8 m/s2 (c) 5 m/s2 (d) 4.8 m/s2

4. A horizontal force of 10 N is necessary to just hold a block stationary against a wall. The coefficient of
friction between the block and the wall is 0.2. The weight of the block is
(a) 20 N (b) 50 N (c) 100 N (d) 2N

5. A rocket with a lift-off mass 3.5 x 104 kg is blasted upwards with an initial acceleration of 10m/s2.The
initial thrust of the blast is
(a) 3.5 x 105 N (b) 7.0 x 105 N (c) 14.0 x 105 N (d) 1.75 x 105 N

6. The impulse is
(a) force x time (b) change in momentum (c) Force/time (d) Both (a) & (b)

7. The force of the friction acts along

(a) Perpendicular to the surface
(b) Tangential to the surface
(c) The direction of the applied force acting on the body
(d) The direction of gravity.
8. A person on bike (or a cyclist) bends inward, in order to
(a) develop a component of normal reaction along horizontal
(b) reduce dependence on friction
(c) to take turn safely with comparatively higher speed
(d) satisfy all above conditions

9. Out of the following, which is conservative force,

(a) Friction force (b) Viscous force (c) Air resistance force (d) Gravitational force

10. A force of 20 N acts on a body and it displaces the body by 2m along horizontal surface. At what angle
with horizontal, this force should act so that the work done is equal to the magnitude of the force.
(a) 30o (b) 45o (c) 60o (d) 90o

11. A body of mass is taken up to height h from ground and it is released. The speed of the body, when it is
at height h/2 is,
(a) √(gh) (b) √(2gh) (c) √(gh/4) (d) √(gh/2)

12. A bullet, fired into a fixed target, loses half of its velocity after penetrating 3 cm. How much further, it
will penetrate before coming to rest, assuming that it faces constant resistance to motion?
(a) 3.0 cm (b) 2.0 cm (c) 1.5 cm (d) 1.0 cm

13. A force F = (5i + 3j +2k) N is applied over a particle which displaces it from the origin to the point r = (2i –
j) m. The work done on the particle in Joule is
(a) -7 (b) +7 (c) +10 (d) +13

14. A spring of spring constant 800 N/m has an extension of 5 cm. The work done in extending it from 5 cm
to 15 cm is
(a) 16 J (b) 8 J (c) 32 J (d) 24 J

15. A block of mass M moving on a frictionless horizontal surface collides with a spring of spring constant k
and compresses it by length L. The maximum momentum of the block after collision is
(a) √(Mk)L (b) (kL2)/(2M) (c) Zero (d) (ML2)/k
16. The momentum of the body increases by 20%, without change in its mass, then the % change in its
kinetic energy will be
(a) 21 (b) 35 (c) 44 (d) 45

17. Which is not correct for an elastic collision

(a) Total kinetic energy is constant
(b) Total momentum is constant
(c) Total energy doesn’t remain constant
(d) Velocity of separation is equal to velocity of approach.

18. A block is placed on the back of truck. The coefficient of friction between the block and the surface of
the truck is 0.15. Up to what maximum acceleration of the truck, the block remains in equilibrium (i.e.
doesn’t start moving backward)?
(a) 1.0 m/s2 (b) 1.5 m/s2 (c) 2.0 m/s2 (d) 2.5 m/s2