Zydus School For Excellence, Godhavi,

Ahmedabad
Chapter 5 Laws of Motion
How is impulse related to linear momentum?
1.A book lying on a table remains at rest despite being pulled down by gravitational force. Give reason.
2.A person sitting in the compartment of a train moving with uniform speed throws a ball from the
window in the upward direction and catches it few seconds later. What will be the path of the ball
seen to him? What to a person standing outside?
3.Give the qualitative definition of force by Newton’s First Law
4.Give the quantitative definition of force by Newton’s Second law.
5.Deduce Newton’s first law from the second law.
6.Is it possible for a body to be in uniform motion without any net force acting on a body? Give
example
7.If a force acts perpendicular to the direction of motion of a body, what will be effect on the speed of
the body and direction of the body?
8.Sketch the graph for friction vs applied force and show the limiting friction and sliding friction in
your graph.
NUMERICALS
IMPULSE (∆�)
1.A cricket ball of mass 150 g moving with a speed of 12 m/s is hit by a bat so that the ball is turned
back with a velocity of 20 m/s. Calculate the impulse received by the ball.
( -4.8 kg m/s)
2.Two identical billiard balls of mass 500 g strike a rigid wall with the same speed of 20 m/s but at
different angles, and get reflected without any change in speed, as shown in the diagram.
i) Find the impulse in both the cases ( - 20 kg m/s , - 10 kg m/s )
ii) What is the direction of force applied on the wall due to each ball? (along -ve x axis)
iii) The ratio of magnitude of impulse imparted to the balls by the wall (2:1)

3.A ball of mass 20 g hits a wall at an angle of 450 with a velocity of 15 m/s. if the ball rebounds at
900- to the direction of incidence, calculate the impulse received by the ball. ( 0.3 2 Ns)
Conservation of momentum
4.A gun weighing 10 kg fires a bullet of 30 g with a velocity of 330 m/s. With what velocity the gun
recoil? (-0.99 m/s)
5.Two balls of mass m1= 400 g and m2= 100 g moving on a straight path towards each other with
velocities 1 m/s and 2 m/s respectively undergo perfectly elastic collision. If m1 rebounds with a
velocity of 0.20 m/s what is the velocity of m2 after collision? ( 2.80 m/s)
6.A bullet of mass 7 g is fired into a block of metal weighing 7 kg. The block is free to move. Calculate
the initial velocity of the bullet if the velocity of the block with the bullet is 0.7 m/s. ( 700.7 m/s)
7.A bomb of mass 12 kg at rest explodes into three equal fragments. Two fragments fly off at right
angles with velocity 12 m/s and 9 m/s.What will be the speed of third fragment? ( 15 m/s)
8.10 kg bomb explodes into three fragments having masses in the ratio of 1:1:3. Two fragments having
masses in the ratio 1:1 move at right angles to each other with a velocity of 15 m/s.

9.A bomb initially at rest on a smooth horizontal surfaces exploded into three pieces. Two pieces fly off
at a 60° angle to each other, a 2 kg piece at 20 m/s and a 3 kg at 12 m/s . The third please of
mass 1 kg flies off as shown in figure . Determine the velocity of the third piece. (32.9 m/s)

Net force in two dimension

10.Find the acceleration of the body of mass 2 kg under three forces as shown in below. Take 3 =
1.7 ) ( 1 m/s2 450 anticlok with - x asix)

11.Find the magnitude of acceleration of a body of mass 2 kg under the forces as shown below (3.25
m/s2)
 Equilibrium Force

12.A mass of 6 kg is suspended by a rope of length 42m from a ceiling. A force of 50 N in the
horizontal direction is applied at the midpoint of the rope as shown in the diagram. What is the angle the
rope makes with the vertical in equilibrium? Take g = 10 N/kg. Also find the tension in each string.
(angle = tan- (5/6)

13.Determine the tension T1 and T2 in the strings under equilibrium shown in the figure.
1 kg wt = 10 N ( T1 = 46.24 N, T2 = 23.12 N)

14.A body of weight 200 N is suspended with the help of strings as shown. Find the tension T1 and T2.
( T1= 146.4 N, T2= 179.3 N)
 Motion of bodies connected by string
15.Three blocks of equal masses ‘m’=10 kg as shown in the figure together lie on a horizontal
frictionless surface and pulled to the right with a force F=60 N ,find the tension T1 and T2.
(T1= 40 N, T2= 20 N)

16.Three blocks as shown in the figure together lie on a horizontal frictionless surface and pulled to the
right with a force F=50 N. m1 = 5 kg, m2= 10 kg, m3 = 15 kg, find the tension T1 and T2.
( T1= 41.67 N, T2= 25 N)

17.A block of mass m1​ =2kg on a smooth inclined plane at angle 30o is connected to a second
block of mass m2​ =3kg by a cord passing over a frictionless pulley as shown in fig. Find the
acceleration of each block (assume g=10m/s2): ( 4 m/s2)

18.STwo blocks are connected by a cord passing over a small frictionless pulley and resting on
frictionless planes as shown in the figure.Find the acceleration of the blocks . ( 1.33 m/s2)

19. Find the acceleration of the masses.

20. A man of mass 60 kg stands inside a lift. What will be his weight in each of of the following cases
( take g = 10 m/s2)
(i) lift coming down at constant speed ( 600 N)
(ii) lift moving up with an acceleration of 2 m/s2 (720 N)
(iii) Lift moving down with an acceleration of 2 m/s2 (480 N)
(iv) Lift falling freely under gravity (zero)
Centripetal Force
21.A body of mass 20 kg moves with a speed of 20 m/s in a circular path of radius 4 m. Find the
centripetal force of the body. ( 200 N)
19. A stone of mass 200 g tied to a string of length 2 m and whirled in a horizontal loop from the other
end of the string with a speed of 5 m/s. Find the tension in the string? ( 2.5 N)
Friction
22A box of mass 4 kg lying on a floor is pushed with a force of 1.0 N. Will the box move? The
coefficient of static friction between the floor and the box is 0.03. Take g = 10 N/kg
.What is the frictional force acting on the box? ( No, as limiting friction is 1.21 N)
23.A body of mass 500 g moving on a rough floor with a speed of 36 km/h is brought to rest
in 2 s. Find the coefficient of kinetic friction. Take g = 10 N/kg ( 0.5)
24.A block of mass 400 g is pressed against a wall with a force of 10 N. Will the block slide down on
the wall? Coefficient of static friction between the block and wall is 0.2.
Take g = 10 N/kg ( yes)
Vehicle Taking circular Turn
25.A cyclist moving on a level road with a speed of 5 m/s suddenly takes a sharp turn of radius 4 m.
Will he be able to take turn without skidding? The coefficient of static friction between the road and
tyre is 0.2. Take g = 10 N/kg ( No, he will skid)
26.A cyclist moving on a level road with a speed of 4 m/s suddenly takes a sharp turn of radius 2 m.
Will he be able to take turn without skidding? The coefficient of static friction between the road and
tyre is 0.5. Take g = 10 N/kg ( No , he will skid)
27. A curved road of radius 500 m is banked at an ∠ 100. What is the maximum speed with which a car
can negotiate the curved road without skidding? Coefficient of static friction is 0.25 and tan 100= 0.2)
Take g = 10 N/kg ( 48.6 m/s)