Physics XI Motion In One Dimension Worksheet -01

1. A object goes from point X to Y and then come back from Y to X. What is the displacement and average
velocity?
2. Does a car speedometer measure speed, velocity or both?
3. A train accelerates from 36 km/h to 54 km/h in 10 sec.
(a) Acceleration (Ans: 0•5 m\s2 )
(b) The distance travelled by car. (Ans: 125 m)
4. Can a body have a varying speed if its velocity is constant? If yes, give examples.
5. What do you infer if?
(a) Distance –time graph is straight line.
(b) Velocity –time graph is curved.
(c) Displacement –time is zigzag.
6. If a body has constant speed than it has zero acceleration? If yes than Explain; If No than also explain.
7. Can a body be said to be at rest as well as in motion at the same time?
8. A truck travelling at 54 km/h is slow down to 36 km/h in 10 sec. Find the retardation. (Ans: 0.5 m/s2).
9. Average velocity and instantaneous velocity are generally different quantities. Can they ever be equal for a
specific type of motion? Explain.
10. If one object has a greater speed than a second object, does the first necessary have a greater acceleration?
Explain, using example.
11. What is the difference between Uniform Accelerated and Non Uniform accelerated motion?
12. A particle is moving in a circle of diameter 20 m. What is its distance and displacement in
a) 1Complete revolution (Ans: 0m, 20π m)
b) One and half revolutions (Ans: 20 m, 30π m)
13. Can the velocity of an object be negative when its acceleration is positive? What about vice versa?
14. When an object is thrown upwards, what is true of velocity and acceleration at the highest point of motion of
the object?
15. A scooter travelling at 10 m/s speed up to 20 m/s in 4 sec. Find the acceleration of scooter. (Ans: 2.5 m/s2)
16. 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) If the velocity of the body decreases with time, the acceleration is negative (retardation), and the motion is
called decelerated motion
d) Acceleration is a scalar quantity
e) An object can be moving with Uniform speed but variable acceleration
17. Can a body be increasing in speed as its acceleration decreases? If yes give an example. If not, explain.
18. A train starts from rest and accelerate uniformly at the rate of 5 m/s 2 for 5 sec. Calculate the velocity of train
in 5 sec. (Ans: 25 m/s)
19. If the velocity of a particle is nonzero, can its acceleration be zero?
20. Two balls of different masses (one lighter and other heavier) are thrown vertically upward with same initial
speed. Which one rises to greater heights?
21. A car start from rest and acquire a velocity of 54 km/h in 2 sec. Find
(a) the acceleration (Ans: 7.5 m/s2)
(b) distance travelled by car assume motion of car is uniform? (Ans: 15m)
22. For a freely falling object dropped from rest, what is its acceleration at the end of the 5th second of fall? The
10th second? Defend your answer.
23. A ball is thrown upwards and it goes to the height 100 m and comes down
(a) What is the net displacement? (Ans: 0m)
(b) What is the net distance? (Ans: 200 m)
24. A body starts its motion with zero velocity and its acceleration is 3m/s 2. Find the distance travelled by it in
fifth second. (Ans: 13.5 m)
25. A stone thrown vertically upwards takes 3 s to attain maximum height. Find the
(a) Initial velocity of the stone (Ans:29.4 m/s)
(b) Maximum height attained by the stone (g = 9.8 m/s2) (Ans: 44.1 m)
26. Two cars A and B race each other. The Car A ran for 2 minute at a speed of 7.5 km/h, slept for 56 minute and
again ran for 2 minute at a speed of 7.5 km/h. find the average speed of the car A in the race.
(Ans: 0.5 km/hr)
27. A sparrow cruising at 1.5 m/s begins to accelerate at a constant 0.3 m/s 2 for 3 sec. What is its change in
velocity? (Ans: 0.9 m/s)

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28. If 100 kg mass takes 4 second to reach the ground when released from certain tower then 50 kg mass takes
how many second to reach the ground when released from same tower?(Ans: 4 s).
29. A stone dropped from the top of a tower, hits the ground in 4 s. What is the height of the tower?
(Ans: 80 m)
30. A stone is released from rest from the edge of a building roof 190 m above the ground. Neglecting air
resistance, what will the speed of the stone, just before striking the ground? (Ans: 61 m/s)
31. A cat drops from a shelf 2m above the ground. How much time does it take him to drop?
(Ans: 0.63 s)
32. A man drops to his death from the sixth floor of a building (20 m). What is his impact velocity?
(Ans: 20 m/s)
33. An object moving with constant acceleration changes its speed from 20 m/s to 60 m/s in 2.0 s. (a) what is the
acceleration? (b) How far did it move in this time? (Ans: (a) 20 m/s2 (b) 80 m )
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34. A car is going up a slight slope deceleration at 0.1 m/s . It comes to a stop after going for 5 s. What was its
initial velocity (Ans: 0.5 m/s)
35. A squirrel is running along a wire with constant acceleration. If it has an initial velocity 0.4 m/s and final
velocity 1.8 m/s after 4 s, how far does it run in that time? (Ans: 4.4 m)
36. The velocity of a car increases from 5 m/s to 17 m/s in a period of 6 s. Then, the velocity of the car reduces to
5 m /s in a further period of 8 s. Calculate the acceleration and retardation of the car.
(Ans: a=2 m/s2 , a=-1.5 m/s2)
37. A car is going 20 m/s in traffic. When the traffic breaks, the driver steps on the accelerator pedal, accelerating
at a constant 1.2 m/s2 for 5 secs. How far does he travel during these 5 secs?
(Ans: 115 m)
38. A ball is thrown down vertically with an initial speed of 20 m/s from a height of 60 m. Find (a) its speed just
before it strikes the ground and (b) how long it takes for the ball to reach the ground. Take g = 10 m/s 2.
( Ans: (a) 40 m/s (b) 2 sec)
39. An object moves along a straight line with an acceleration of 2 m/s2. If its initial speed is 10 m/s, what will be
its speed 2 s later? (Ans: 14 m/s)
40. A bullet hits a Sand box with a velocity of 20 m/s and penetrates it up to a distance of 6 cm. Find the
deceleration of the bullet in the sand box. (Ans: 3333.3 m/s2)
41. An electron moving with a velocity of 5×103m/s enters into a uniform electric field and acquires a
42. uniform acceleration of 103m/s2 in the direction of initial velocity.
(a) Find out the time in which electron velocity will be doubled. (Ans: 5 sec)
(b) How much distance electron would cover in this time? (Ans: 37.5×103m)
43. A train 100 m long is moving with the velocity of 72 km/hr. find the time it takes to cross the bridge which is
2 km long? (Ans: 105sec)
44. An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 42.250 km (approx). Calculate its linear velocity if
takes 24 hour to revolve around earth. (Ans: 11.05km/hr)
45. An air-plane accelerates down a runway at 3.20 m/s2 for 32.8 s until is finally lifts off the ground. Determine
the distance travelled before takeoff. (Ans: 1721.344m)
46. A Jeep starts from rest and accelerates uniformly over a time of 5.21 seconds for a distance of 110 m.
Determine the acceleration of the Jeep. (Ans: 8.10m/s2)
47. A feather is dropped on the planet other than earth which has very low acceleration due to gravity from a
height of 1.40 meters. The acceleration of gravity on the other planet is 1.67 m/s2. Determine the time of
feather to fall to the surface of the other planet (Ans: 1.29 s)
48. Honda motor bike accelerates uniformly from rest to a speed of 7.10 m/s over a distance of 35.4 m. Determine
the acceleration of the bike. (Ans: 0 .712 m/s2)
49. An Aeronautics engineer is designing the runway for an airport. Of the planes that will use the airport, the
lowest acceleration rate is likely to be 3 m/s2. The take off speed for this plane will be 65 m/s. Assuming this
minimum acceleration, what is the minimum allowed length for the runway? (Ans: 704m)
50. A BMW car travelling with uniform acceleration at 22.4 m/s skids to a stop in 2.55 s. Determine the skidding
distance of the car. (Ans: 28.56m)
51. A coin is dropped into a deep well and is heard to hit the water 3.41 s after being dropped. Determine the
depth of the well. (Ans: 57.0 m)
52. A Truck starting from rest moves with a uniform acceleration of 0.2 m /s 2 for 2 minutes. Find
(a) the speed acquired. (Ans: 24 m/s)
(b) the distance travelled. (Ans: 1440 m)
53. 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. (Ans: 277.55m)
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54. A cyclist moving on a circular track of radius 50m completes one revolution in 4 minutes. What is his
(a) average speed (Ans: 1.309 m/sec)
(b) average velocity in one full revolution? (Ans: 0 m/s)
55. 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
56. 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.
57. 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? (Ans: 10 m/s ,10 m/s)
58. Fiza moves 4m due east and then 3m due west.
What is the distance covered by the Fiza? (Ans: 7m)
What is its displacement? (Ans: 1m)
59. 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?
(Ans: 102.87 m)
60. How long does it take to hear a thunderclap 6.8 km away if the sound wave moves at 340 m/s?
(Ans: 20 seconds)
61. It takes a pulse of light 35 microseconds to travel down a 5 km length of fiber optic cable. How fast does the
light move through the cable? (Ans: 1.43 x 108 m/s)
62. When is the magnitude of the displacement equal to the distance traveled?
63. A raven flies south for 120 seconds at a speed of 12 m/s, then flies 0.56 km north in 80 seconds.
What is the total distance? (Ans: 2 km)
What is the total displacement? (Ans: 0.88 km south)
What is the average speed? (Ans: 10 m/s)
What is the average velocity? (Ans: 4.4 m/s south)
64. What is the acceleration of an object that steadily increases its speed from 6 m/s to 18 m/s over a 2.0 second
time interval without changing direction? (6 m/s2)
65. What is the acceleration of an object that maintains a steady speed of 24 m/s for 6 seconds without changing
direction? (Ans: 0 m/s2)
66. A car that is initially moving at 22 m/s hits the brakes and stops in 5 seconds. What is the acceleration? (Ans:
-4.4 m/s2)
67. An airplane that is initially moving at 320 m/s accelerates at 3 m/s 2 for 20 seconds. How far does it move
during that time period and what is its final velocity? (Ans: 7.0 km, 380 m/s)
68. An object has an initial velocity that is negative. If the acceleration of the object is positive, how will velocity
be affected?
69. A car begins driving from a stationary position. It accelerates at 4 m/s 2 for 10 seconds, and then travels at a
steady speed for another 10 seconds, all in the same direction. How much distance has it covered since it
started driving? (Ans: 600m)
70. When a stone is thrown directly upwards with initial velocity of 30.0 m/s, what will be the maximum height it
will reach and when will it be? Acceleration due to gravity is 10 m/s 2 (Ans: 45 m in 3 s)
71. Bumblebee jumps straight upwards with a velocity of 14.0 m/s. What is his displacement of after 1.80 s?
(Ans: 9.32 m)
72. A bike first accelerates from 0.0 m/s to 5.0 m/s in 4.5 s, and then continues at this constant speed for another
4.5 s. What is the total distance traveled by the bike? (Ans: 33.75m)

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