MOTION IN STRAIGHT LINE

1. A particle moved for half of the time with velocity v1 and next of half of the time with velocity v2. Find
its average velocity over full journey.
2. A particle moved for half of the distance with velocity v1 and next of half of the distance with velocity
v2. Find its average velocity over full journey.
3. A particle moved with velocity 20m/s and 25m/s for 6s and 4s respectively along a straight line find its
average velocity.
4. A particle covered 200m in 8s and 300m in 12s. What is its average velocity?
5. Find average speed and velocity of tip of 14cm long minute hand of clock in 15minute and 20minute.
6. A particle start from rest and moves with the uniform acceleration of 5m/s2. Find distance travelled
and final velocity in 20s.
7. A particle starts with 36kmph and achieves a velocity of 90kmph in 10s. Find its acceleration and
distance covered in this time.
8. A particle start with 10m/s and moves with the acceleration of 6m/s2. Find distance travelled in 6s.
Also find distance travelled during 6th second.
9. Engine of a train of crosses a pole with speed u while last wagon crosses the same pole with speed v.
find the speed with which middle wagon crosses the pole. Train moving with uniform acceleration.
10. A particle moving with uniform acceleration covers distance x, y and z in pth, qth and rth seconds
respectively. Prove that (q-r)x +(r-p)y +(p-q)z = 0
11. A particle starts from rest and accelerate with 2m/s2 for 1minute. Then decelerate and comes to rest in
half a minute. Find its maximum velocity achieved, deceleration, total distance travelled and average
velocity. Also locate the position where its velocity is half of maximum.
12. A particle start from rest accelerates at 𝜶 then decelerates at 𝜷 and finally comes to rest in time t. find
time of accelerated motion and time of decelerated motion. Also find maximum speed attained and
total distance travelled.
13. A particle moving with constant acceleration covers 150m and 266m in 5s and 7s respectively. Find
distance travelled on 10 sec.
14. A body starts with the speed of 10m/s and moves with acceleration of 5m/s 2. Find distance covered by
it in 6th second.
15. A particle is projected up with speed of 50m/s. what is its time of motion and maximum height
achieved?
16. A particle is dropped from 80m high tower. Find time for which particle remains in air. Also find its
velocity when strikes the ground.
17. A ball is projected upward with the speed of 40m/s from base of 80m high tower. At the same time a
ball is dropped from top, where and when will balls meet?
18. A ball is projected up with the velocity of 20m/s from 105m high tower. Find the following
a) Time to reach max height.
b) Maximum height attained
c) Time when particle is at level of top of tower.
 d) Total time of motion
e) Velocity when it strikes the ground.
f) Average velocity of full motion.
19. A balloon rising up with the speed of 5m/s a ball is dropped from it when balloon was at the height of
60 from ground. A) Find maximum height attained by ball (B) time to reach the ground. (C) Time to
reach maximum height. (D) Height of balloon when ball reaches to the ground.
20. A rocket is fired vertically up from ground with net acceleration 10 m/s2. The fuel is finished in 1
minute. Find the maximum height reached find time to reach maximum height. Plot the graph of
acceleration versus time, velocity versus time and position versus time.
21. A parachutist jumps from some height. After 20s he opens the parachute which retards his motion at
8m/s2, so he reaches in ground in 24s after opening of parachute. Find the speed when he reaches to
ground. Find the height from which he jumped. Plot the all graphs.
22. Plot the following graph.
A) Position Vs time for particle at rest.
B) Velocity Vs time for particle at rest.
C) Velocity Vs time of particle moving with uniform velocity.
D) Position Vs time of particle moving with uniform velocity.
E) Velocity Vs time of particle moving with uniform acceleration.
F) Position Vs time of particle moving with uniform acceleration, starting from rest.
G) Position Vs time of particle falling under gravity.
H) Velocity Vs time of particle falling under gravity.
I) Speed Vs time of particle falling under gravity.
J) Distance covered during nth second.
K) Velocity Vs position of particle falling under gravity.
L) Position Vs time of ball is projected up.
M) Velocity Vs time of ball is projected up.
N) Position Vs time of ball is projected up. It makes successive collision on ground and does not lose
energy.
O) Velocity Vs time of ball is projected up. . It makes successive collision on ground and does not lose
energy.
P) Position Vs time of ball is projected up. It makes successive collision on ground and loses energy.
Q) Velocity Vs time of ball is projected up. It makes successive collision on ground and loses energy.
23. . Position of particle is given by S = t2 + 3t + 5. Where s in meter and time is in second. Find its position
at 3s, velocity at 4s and acceleration.
24. Acceleration of a particle varies as a = 2t + 1. Find velocity and position of particle at 3s if particle start
with 10m/s from origin.
25. Velocity of particle varies as S = 3t2 + 4t + 7. Find its acceleration at t = 5s. If it start from S =10m, Locate
position at t = 4s.
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26. A particle is moving such that𝒙 = 𝟏𝟎𝐬𝐢𝐧⁡(𝟐𝝅𝒕 + 𝟔 ). Find its initial position, position at t = 0.25s. its
velocity and acceleration at t = 0.5s
27. A particle is projected up with speed of 30m/s. plot the graph of acceleration versus time, velocity
versus time, position versus time and velocity versus position.
28. A particle starts from (20m, 30m) with the speed of (5𝒊⁡ ̂ + 𝟒𝒋̂) m/s and its acceleration is (2𝒊̂+3𝒋̂)m/s2,
what is its position and velocity after 5s.
29. Position of particle is given by x = 5t and y = 2t2 + t. find the position where velocity makes the angle of
45°with x axis.
30. Two towns A and b are connected by regular bus service with a bus leaving in every T minute in either
direction. A man cycling with 20kmph from A to B notices that bus goes past him every 18minute in
direction of motion and every 6minute in the opposite direction. Find the value of T and speed of bus.
All the buses move with same uniform speed.
31. A man standing on road holds his umbrella at the angle of 30° with vertical to protect himself from
rain. He throws the umbrella and start running at 10kmph feels rain vertical. Find velocity of rain.
32. A man running at 8kmph feels rain drops vertical. He increases his speed to 12kmph, rain drops strikes
him at the angle of 30° with vertical. Find velocity of rain.
33. Flag on ship flatters 30° due north of east when ship is moving with speed of 10kmph eastward. What
is velocity of wind?
34. A man can swim at the speed of 5m/s in still water. 200m Wide River is flowing at the speed of 3m/s.
find minimum time taken by man to cross the river; also find his drift in this case. Find time to reach
opposite bank. In which direction he must head to reach opposite bank?
35. Two ships A and B are 10km apart. On a line running south to north. Ship A farther north is moving
west at 20kmph and ship B is moving north at 20kmph. What is the minimum separation between
them?
36. Velocity of particle is given by v = 3t2-6t. Initially particle was at origin find distance covered and
displacement from t = 0 to t=3.5s. Also find average speed and average velocity in same time interval.
37. Three particles A, B, C are at equal distance on a line. A starts moving with uniform speed v and C with
acceleration a perpendicular to the line in opposite direction. With what speed B should move so that
A, B & C remain collinear.
38. An elevator goes maximum height of 14m above the ground. Maximum acceleration & retardation is
0.2m/s2 and 0.1m/s2. If elevator can reach maximum speed of 2.5m/s, determine minimum time to
move from ground to maximum height.
39. Reaction time of biker is 0.3s. He was biking at the speed of 90kmph. If maximum deceleration of
30m/s2 can be developed, will be he able to save himself he suddenly sees an obstacle at distance of
20m?
40. Total distance covered by a car is 56.7m & 24.4m when initial speed was 80.5kmph & 48.3kmph. Find
reaction time and deceleration.
41. In a car race, car A takes a time t less than car B at the finish, and passes the finishing line with speed v
more than that of car B. both the cars start from rest with accelerations a 1& a2 show that 𝑣 = √𝑎1 𝑎2𝑡.
42. Velocity of a particle is given by 𝑣 = (3 + 6𝑡 + 9𝑡 2 )𝑐𝑚𝑠 −1 . Find out acceleration at t = 3s and
displacement from t = 5s to t = 8s.
43. Position of particle is given by 𝑥 = (2𝑡 − 3)2 𝑚. Find position velocity and acceleration at t = 2s. What
is velocity of particle at origin?
44. Velocity of particle is given by 𝑣 = (10 − 2𝑡)m/s. find its acceleration and distance covered and
displacement in 8s.