Chapter: 2 (Motion)

Creative Questions for practice

Class: IX and X
1. A car moves from rest with uniform acceleration of 2 m/s 2 for 1minute. Next 2 minute it moves
with uniform velocity. Now brake is applied and it comes to rest after travelling 50 m.
a) What is called rest?
b) All rest and all motion are relative, no rest and no motion is absolute. Explain.
c) What is the velocity of the car in 100 s?
d) Calculate the average velocity of the car? Explain mathematically.

2. A car moves with 10 m/s uniform velocity for 30 s. Next 40 s it travels with uniform acceleration
of 0.5 m/s2. After that it comes to rest in 20 s with uniform retardation.
a) What is called motion?
b) Explain that the magnitude of displacement never exceeds distance.
c) What will be the velocity of the car in 1 minute?
d) If the car travels the whole path with uniform acceleration of 1 m/s2 from rest, do you think it
will reach the destination fast?

3. A car travels from rest with uniform acceleration of 2 m/s 2 to south direction. Another car from
100 m behind of the 1st car travels with uniform velocity of 10 m/s to the same direction.
a) What is called instantaneous speed?
b) For which condition speed and velocity will be equal.
c) When the velocity of both cars will be equal?
d) Do you the two vehicles will meet each other to the journey? Analyze mathematically.

4. A fox and a cat travel with velocity of 5 m/s and 2 m/s to west direction and their acceleration are
0.4 m/s2 and 0.5 m/s2 respectively.
a) What is called uniform acceleration?
b) For which condition average speed and instantaneous speed will be equal?
c) When and where they will meet each other?
d) If the cat starts his journey from 100 m behind of fox, do you think they will meet each other?
Analyze mathematically.

5. A bullet hits on a wall of 10 cm thickness with a velocity of 400 m/s. Its velocity is reduced by 20%
after penetrating 5 cm.
a) What is called uniform velocity?
b) For which condition average speed and average velocity will be equal? Explain.
c) Find the acceleration of the bullet.
d) Do you think the bullet can penetrate the rest thickness? Explain mathematically.

6. A bullet hits on a wooden block of 3 cm thickness and its velocity becomes 60% after penetrating
4 blocks of same thickness.
a) What is called non-uniform retardation?
b) A stone is tied with a roof and rotate around your head with same manner, what type of motion
it is? Explain.
c) How many wooden blocks can penetrate the bullet?
d) If the bullet hits with two times of initial velocity, how many more wooden block can penetrate
the bullet? Analyze mathematically.

7. An object falls freely from rest from 100 m height to the ground. Another object is projected
upward with 40 m/s velocity at the same time.
a) What is called acceleration?
b) Explain 2nd law of falling body.
c) What is the velocity of 2nd object after 2 second?
d) Do you think the two objects will meet in air? Explain mathematically.

8. An object is projected upward with a velocity of 20 m/s. After 3 second another object is projected
upward with same velocity.
a) What is called retardation?
b) Explain 3rd law of falling body.
c) What is the velocity of 1st object after 3 second?
d) Do you think the two objects will meet in air? Analyze mathematically.
9. An object falls from rest to the ground. In last second it travels 49 m distance.
a) What is called motion?
b) What type of motion is the motion of falling body? Explain.
c) How much distance the object travel in 2nd second?
d) When the object will touch the ground?

10. Distance with respect to time of a car is given below-

Time(s) 0 1 2 3 4 5
Distance(m) 0 1 4 9 16 25
a) What is called uniform speed?
b) Explain the slope of distance-time graph.
c) Find the velocity of the car in 2.5 s.
d) Draw a velocity-time graph in the light of stem.

11. A deer of mass of 80 kg is running with uniform velocity of 72km/h. In the mean time a tiger of
mass 200 kg which was hiding a tree started chasing the deer from 75 m behind with uniform
acceleration of 1.5 m/s2 foe 30 s.
a) What is called reference point?
b) Acceleration due to gravity of a freely falling object is 9.8 m/s2. What do you mean by it?
c) Find the distance travelled by the tiger in 20 s.
d) Is it possible for the tiger to catch the deer? Give your opinion with mathematical logic.

12. A car travels with initial velocity of ‘u’ and uniform acceleration of ‘a’. In first 5 s it travels 20 m
and in next 10 s 24 m.
a) What is called speed?
b) Why the acceleration of an object moving with uniform velocity will be zero? Explain.
c) Find the initial velocity of the object?
d) When and where the object will be stopped? Analyze mathematically.

13. A cricket ball is thrown vertically upward by Mukul with a velocity of 49 m/s. Babul starts running
from 100 m distance to catch the ball with uniform velocity of 30 km/h.
a) What is called velocity?
b) The displacement does not depend on the path of the object. Explain why.
c) Find the position of the ball after 7 s.
d) Do you think Babul can catch the ball? Analyze mathematically.

14. A car has travelled 100 m in 4 s and 104 m in the next 6 s of its journey.
a) What is called acceleration due to gravity?
b) Average velocity can be zero but average speed cannot be zero. Explain.
c) Calculate the starting velocity of the car?
d) Analyze displacement-time graph taking time interval 2 s.

15. A man can run with uniform velocity of 6 m/s. A bus starts its journey at the same time from rest
and uniform acceleration of 2 m/s 2 from 8 m in front of him.
a) What is called translational motion?
b) Explain simple harmonic motion.
c) Calculate the distance between the bus and the man after 10 s.
d) If the bus is 10 m ahead of the man can he catch the bus? Justify mathematically.

16. Tariq and his friend Sabab take his motorcycle with a view to visit to their friend. Their motorcycle
starts from rest and after 5 s it attains a velocity of 54 km/h. Next 2 km it moves with uniform
velocity.
a) What is called linear motion?
b) What type of motion is the annual motion of the earth? Explain.
c) Determine the acceleration of motorcycle.
d) If Tariq travels the whole path with half acceleration instead of the mentioned acceleration, do
you think he will reach the destination earlier? Analyze mathematically.

17. A car moves along a circular path of 100 m radius with uniform speed of 36km/h.
a) What is the dimension of acceleration?
b) Write the three laws of falling body.
c) How much distance the object travel foe one complete rotation?
d) Show that the displacement of the object never more than distance. Analyze mathematically.
18. The velocity of a car with respect to time is given below:
Time(s) 0 20 40 60 80 100
Velocity(m/s) 0 5 10 10 5 0
a) What is called relative motion?
b) Explain the slope the distance-time graph.
c) Find the velocity of the car in 30 s.
d) Draw a displacement-time graph in the light of stem.

19. The velocity of a car in given time is given below:

Time(min) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Velocity(km/h) 2 4 6 6 8 10 0
a) What is called retardation?
b) Explain the slope the displacement-time graph.
c) Find the velocity of the car in 35 s.
d) Draw an acceleration-time graph in the light of stem.

20. A man moves to south direction with uniform speed of 5 m/s for 30 s, next 40 s with uniform
speed of 8 m/s to west and next 20 s with uniform speed of 4 m/s to east direction.
a) What is called vector quantity?
b) Explain the slope of velocity-time graph.
c) Find the displacement in 1 minute.
d) Calculate the average speed and average velocity of the man.