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KINEMATICS (PRADEEP)

Q. 1. Can a body have zero velocity and still be accelerating?

Q. 2. A ball is thrown up in air. What is the acceleration and velocity at the instant it
reaches its highest point?
Q. 3. How can the distance travelled be calculated from velocity-time graph in a uniform
one dimensional motion?
Q. 4. A ball is thrown straight up. What is its velocity and acceleration at the top?
Q. 5. What does slope of velocity-time graph represent?
Q. 6. A ball is thrown vertically upwards. Draw its velocity-time curve.
Q. 7. What is the ratio of the distance travelled by a body falling freely from rest in the first,
second, and third seconds for its fall.
Q. 8. The displacement of a particle is proportional to the cube time elapsed. How does the
acceleration of the body depend on time elapsed?
Q. 9. The displacement x of a particle along a straight line at time t is given by
x =  −  t +  t 2 . Find the acceleration of the particle.
Q. 10. An object is projected upward with a velocity of 100 ms−1. After what time will it
strike the ground? Use, g = 10 ms−2.
Q. 11. An electron starting from rest has a velocity that increases linearly with time that is
v = k t, where k = 2 m/s2. What will be the distance covered in first 3 seconds of its
motion?
Q. 12. Two bodies are released from the same height at an interval of 1s. How long after the
first body begins to fall will the two bodies be 10 m apart?
Ans. (1.5 s)
Q. 13. Brakes are applied to a train travelling at 72 kmh−1. After passing over 200 m, its
velocity is reduced to 36 kmh−1. At the same rate of retardation, how much further
will it go before it is brought to rest?
Ans. (66.67 m)
Q. 14. An automobile starts from rest and accelerates uniformly for 30 second to a speed of
72 kmh−1. It then moves with a uniform velocity and it is finally brought to rest in
50 m with a constant retardation. If the total distance travelled is 950 m, find the
acceleration, the retardation and total time taken.
Ans. (2/3 ms−2, 4 ms−2, 65 sec)
Q. 15. A stone is dropped from the top of a cliff and is found to travel 44.1 m in the last
second before it reaches the ground. Find the height of the cliff.
Ans. (122.5 m)
Q. 16. A ball thrown up is caught by the thrower after 4 second. How high did it go and with
what velocity was it thrown? How far below its highest point was in 3 second after
start? Acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 ms−2.
Ans. (19.6 m, 19.6 ms−1, 4.9 m)
Q. 17. From top of a tower 200 m in height, a ball is dropped and at the same time another
ball is projected vertically upwards from the ground with a velocity of 50 ms−1. Find
when and where the two balls will meet.
Ans. (4 sec. after start, 78.4 m from top)
Q. 18. A car accelerates from rest at a constant rate A for some time after which it retards at
constant rate B to come to rest. If the total time lapse is T seconds, evaluate the
maximum velocity reached and total distance travelled, in terms of A, B and T.
Q. 19. The relation between time t and distance x is t =  x 2 +  x where  and  are
constants. Show that retardation is 2  v3, where v is the instantaneous velocity.
Q. 20. A particle moves along a straight line such that its displacement s at any time t is
given by s = t 3 − 6t 2 + 3t + 4 meters. Find the velocity, when the acceleration is zero.
Ans. (−9 ms−1).
Q. 21. Derive first equation of motion.
Q. 22. Derive second equation of motion.
Q. 23. Derive third equation of motion.
Q. 24. Derive expression for distance travelled in nth second.
Q. 25. State and explain parallelogram law of vector addition.
Q. 26. Two forces 10 N and 14 N are acting upon a body. What can be the maximum and
minimum resultant force on the body?
Q. 27. Explain zero vector give one example.
Q. 28. Explain null vector give one example.
Q. 29. It is easier to pull a lawn roller than to push it why?
Q. 30. The greatest and least resultant of two forces acting at a point is 10 N and 6 N
respectively. If each force is increased by 3 N, find the resultant of new forces when
acting at a point at an angle of 90o with each other.
Ans. (12.1 N tan−1 0.45)
Q. 31. Two forces whose magnitude are in the ratio 3 : 5 give a resultant of 28 N. If the angle
of their inclination is 60o, find the magnitude of each force.
 12 N 
Ans.  
 20 N 

Q. 32. If A and B are non zero vectors and A + B = A − B . What is angle between

A and B .
Q. 33. At what angle two forces (P + Q) and (P − Q) act so that resultant is

(i) 3P 2 + Q 2

(ii) 2 ( P2 + Q2 ) .

Ans. (60o, 90o)

Q. 34. Two forces acting on a particle in opposite directions have the resultant of 10 N. If
they act at right angles to each other. the resultant is 50 N. Find the two forces.
Ans. (30 N, 40 N)

Q. 35. Determine the vector which when added to the resultant of A = 2i − 4 j − 6k and

B = 4i + 3 j + 3k gives unit vector along z-direction.

Ans. ( −6i + j + 4k )

Q. 36. Find a unit vector parallel to the resultant of the vectors A = i + 4 j − 2k and

B = 3i − 5 j + k .

Ans.
( )
 4i − j − k / 18 


Q. 37. Find the length of ( A + B ) , and ( A − B ) , where A = 3i + 2 j and B = i − 2 j + 3k.

Ans. (5, 5.3)

Q. 38. Given A = 4i − 3 j + k and B = −i + j + 4k . Find C such that A − B + C = 0 .

Ans. ( −5i + 4 j + 3k ).
Q. 39. Prove that path of projectile is parabola.
Q. 40. Derive expression for time period, height and range of projectile from ground to
ground projection.
Q. 41. A hunter aims his gun and fires a bullet directly at a monkey in a tree. At the instant,
the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun, the monkey drops. Will the bullet hit the
money? Substantiate your answer with proper reasoning.
Q. 42. A shell is fired at an angle of 60o to the horizontal direction with a velocity of
392 ms−1. Find the time of flight, horizontal range and maximum height attained.
Take g = 9.8 ms−2.
Ans. (69.2 sec, 5880 m)
Q. 43. Find the angle of projection at which horizontal range and maximum height are equal.
Ans. (tan−1 4)
Q. 44. In long jump, does it matter how high you jump? What factors determine the span of
the jump?
Q. 45. What is relation between height and range of projectile?
Q. 46 There are two angles of projection for which the horizontal range is the same. Prove
that the sum of the maximum heights for these two angles does not depend upon the
angle of projection.
Q. 47. Two bodies are thrown with the same initial velocity at angles  and (90o−  ) with
the horizontal. What will be the ratio of (i) maximum heights attained by them and (ii)
of horizontal ranges?
Q. 48. If, there are two times for which the projectile travels the same vertical distance prove
that the sum of the two times is equal to the time of flight.
Q. 49. Find the angle of projection for a projectile motion whose range R is n times the
maximum height H.
Q. 50. A body of mass m is thrown with velocity v at an angle 30o to the horizontal and
another body B of the same mass is thrown with velocity v at an angle of 60o to the
horizontal find the ratio of the horizontal range and max. height of A and B.
Q. 51. A stone is dropped from the window of a bus moving at 60 km h−1. If the window is
196 cm. high, find the distance along the track which the stone moves before striking
the ground.
Ans. (10.54 m)
Q. 52. A body is projected downwards at an angle of 30o to the horizontal with a velocity of
9 : 8 m/s from the top of a tower 29.4 m high. How long will it take before striking the
ground?
Q. 53. A projectile has the same range when the maximum height attained by it is either H1
or H2. Find the relation between R, H1 and H2.
Q. 54. A jet airplane travelling at the speed of 500 km h−1 ejects its products of combustion
at the speed of 1500 km h−1 relative to the jet plane. What is the speed of the later
with respect to observer on the ground?

Ans. (−1000 km/h)

Q. 55. A car moving along a straight highway with speed of 126 km h−1 is brought to a stop
within a distance of 200 m. What is the retardation of the car (assumed uniform) and
how long does it take for the car to stop?
Q. 56. The ceiling of a long hall is 25 m high. What is the maximum horizontal distance that
a ball thrown with a speed of 40 ms−1 can go without hitting the ceiling of the hall?
Ans. (150.5 m)
Q. 57. A stone tied to the end of a string 80 cm. long is whirled in a horizontal circle with a
constant speed. If the stone makes 14 revolutions in 25 seconds, what is the
magnitude and direction of acceleration of the stone?
Ans. (9.9 m/sec2)
Q. 58. An aircraft executes a horizontal loop of radius 1 km with a steady speed of
900 km h−1. Compare its centripetal acceleration with the acceleration due to gravity.
Ans. (6.38)
Q. 59. An aircraft is flying at a height of 3400 m above the ground. If the angle subtended at
a ground observation point by the aircraft positions 10 s apart is 30o, what is the speed
of the aircraft?
Ans. (182.2 m/sec)
Q. 60. A bullet fired at an angle of 30o with the horizontal hits the ground 3 km away. By
adjusting its angle of projection, can one hope to hit a target 5 km away? Assume the
muzzle speed to be fixed, and neglect air resistance.
Q. 61. A fighter plane flying horizontally at an altitude of 1.5 km with speed 720 km h−1
passes directly over head an anticraft gun. At what angle from the vertical should the
gun be fired from the shell with muzzle speed 600 ms−1 to hit the plane. At what
maximum altitude should the pilot fly the plane to avoid being hit?
(Take g = 10 ms−2)
Q. 62. A cyclist is riding with a speed of 27 km h−1. As he approaches a circular turn on the
road of radius 80 m, he applies brakes and reduces his speed at the constant rate of 0.5
ms−2. What is the magnitude and direction of the net acceleration of the cyclist on the
circular turn?