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Topic wise – Test on Circular Motion

Maximum Marks: 120 Date: 30/10/1028
No. of Questions: 30 Time Allotted: 60 mins

All questions have a single option as the correct answer. Mark the correct choice on the response sheet
provided to you. +4 marks will be awarded for every correct response, -1 will be awarded for every
incorrect response and 0 marks will be awarded for no response.

1. When a vehicle is moving along the horizontal curved road, centripetal force is provided by
(1) vertical component of normal reaction
(2) horizontal component of normal reaction
(3) frictional force between road surface and tyres
(4) all of these

2. The maximum safe speed for a vehicle taking a turn on a curved banked road, does not depend upon
(1) acceleration due to gravity (2) mass of the vehicle
(3) angle inclination   with the horizontal (4) radius of curvature of the track


3. The earth
 mass  6 10 24
kg  7
, revolves around the sun with an angular velocity of 2 10 rad/s, in a circular
orbit of radius 1.5 10 km . The force exerted by the sun on the earth is
8

(2) 18  10 N (3) 27 10 N (4) 3.6 10 N

20 30 22
(1) zero

The angular velocity of a particle is given by   1.5t  3t  2 , the time when its angular acceleration
2
4.
decreases to be zero will be-
(1) 25 sec (2) 0.25 sec (3) 12 sec (4) 1.2 sec

A particle is moving in a circular path with velocity varying with time as v  1.5t  2t . If 2 cm is the radius of
2
5.
circular path, the angular acceleration at t  2sec will be-
2 2 2 2
(1) 4 rad / sec (2) 40 rad / sec (3) 400 rad / sec (4) 0.4 rad / sec

6. The radius of a curved path on a national highway is R. The width of a road is b. The outer edge of the road is
raised by ‘h’ w.r.t. the inner edge, so that a car with a velocity V can safely pass over it. What is the value of h?
Rg v2 b v v2 b
(3) bgR (4) Rg
2
(1) bv (2) R

7. A stone attached to a rope of length I  80 cm is rotated with a speed of 240 r.p.m. At the moment when the
velocity is directed vertically upwards, the rope breaks. To what height does the stone rise further?
(1) 1.2m (2) 41.2 m (3) 20.6 m (4) 24.9 m

8. A weightless thread can bear tension up to 3.7 kg weight. A stone of mass 500 gram is tied at its one end and
revolved in a vertical circular path of radius 4m. If g  10 m / s ,then the maximum angular velocity of the stone
2

is (radian/sec) will be
(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 6

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9. A car is moving in a circular path of radius 100 m with velocity of 200 m/sec such that in each sec its velocity
increases by 100 m/s, the net acceleration (in m/s2)of car will be-
(1) 100 17 (2) 10 7 (3) 10 3 (4) 100 3

10. A man whirls a stone of mass 250 gram, tied at the end of a string of length 2m in a horizontal circle and at a
height of 5m from the ground. The string breaks and the stone flies off tangentially and strikes the ground at a
horizontal distance of 10m from the man. What was the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of the stone,

when it was moving in the circle?

 
g  10 m / s 2
2 2 2 2
(1) 50 m / s (2) 40 m / s (3) 30 m / s (4) 25 m / s

11. A mass of 5 kg is tied to a string of length 1.0 m and is rotated in vertical circle with a uniform speed of 4m / s .

The tension in the string will be 130 N when the mass is at

 
g  10 m / s 2
(1) highest point (2) mid way (3) bottom (4) cannot be justified

12. A particle is moving along a circular path. Let v,w,a and a c be its linear velocity, angular velocity, angular
acceleration and centripetal 
acceleration
 respectively. Identify the wrong statement:
 
   
(1)  v (2)  a c (3)   (4)  a c
v

13. A body of mass m performing UCM with frequency n along the circumference of circle having radius r, force is
given by
1
nm 2
(1) 4nm (2) 4 n m (3)  n mr
2 2 2 2 2
(4) 2

14. A car is moving in a circular track on radius 10 metre with a constant speed of 10 m / sec . A plumb bob is
suspended from the roof of the car by a light rigid rod of 1 metre long. The angle made by the rod with the track
is
  
(1) zero (2) 30 (3) 45 (4) 60

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15. A car of mass 1000 kg moves on a circular road with a speed of 20 m/s. Its direction changes by 90 after
travelling 628m on the road. The centripetal force acting on the car is
(1) 500 N (2) 1000 N (3) 1500 N (4) 2000 N

16. A fighter aeroplane flying in the sky dives with a speed of 360 km/hr in a vertical circle of radius 200 m.
Mass of the pilot sitting in it is 75 kg. What will be the value of force with which the pilot presses his seat

when the aeroplane is at highest position

 
g  10 m / s 2

(3) 
75  g  N
(1) 3000 N (2) 1500 N (4) 300 N

17. A particle rests on the top of a hemisphere of radius R. The smallest horizontal velocity that must be imparted
to the particle if it is to leave the hemisphere without sliding down is
(1) gR (2) 2gR (3) 3gR (4) 5gR

18. The kinetic energy of a particle moving along a circle of radius R depends on distance covered  s as T  as ,
2

where a is constant. The force acting on the particle as a function of s will be-

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 s2  2as 2as
2as 1  2 
(1)  R  (2) R (3) 2as s  R
2 2
(4) R

19. A particle describes a horizontal circle on the smooth surface of an inverted cone. The height of the plane of the
circle above the vertex is 9.8 cm. The speed of the particle will be-
(1) 9.8 m/s (2) 0.98 m/s (3) 0.098 m/s (4) 98 m/s

20. Three identical particles are connected by three strings as shown in figure. These particles are revolving in a
horizontal plane. The velocity of outer most particle is v. Then T1 : T2 : T3 will be- (Where T1 is tension in the
outer most string etc.)

(1) 3 : 5 : 7 (2) 3 : 5 : 6 (3) 3 : 4 : 5 (4) 7 : 5 : 3

21. A long horizontal rod has a bead which can slide along its length and is initially placed at a distance L from
one end A of the rod. The rod is sent in angular motion about A with a constant angular acceleration  . If the
coefficient of friction between the rod and the bead is  , and gravity is neglected, then the time after which the
bead starts slipping is
  1

(1)  (2)  (3) (4) infinitesimal

22. An object moves at a constant speed along a circular path in a horizontal XY plane, with the centre at the
  4m / s  ˆj
origin. When the object is x  2m , its velocity is . What is the object’s acceleration when it is
y  2m

(1)
 
 8m / s 2 ˆj
(2)

 8m / s 2 ˆi  (3)

 4m / s 2 ˆj  (4)
 
4m / s 2 ˆi

23. Two particles of equal mass are connected to a rope AB of negligible mass such that one is at end A and other
dividing the length of rope in the ratio 1: 2 from B. The rope is rotated about end B in a horizontal plane. Ratio
of tensions in the smaller part to the other is (ignore effect of gravity):
(1) 4:3 (2) 1:4 (3) 1:2 (4) 1:3.

24. The lengths of second’s hand in a watch is 1 cm. The change in velocity of its tip in 15 seconds is
   2
cm / sec cm / sec cm / sec
(1) Zero (2) 30 2 (3) 30 (4) 30

25. A particle moves in a circular orbit under the action of a central attractive force inversely proportional to the
distance 'r ' . The speed of the particle is
(2) Independent of r (3) Proportional to r (4) Proportional to 1/ r
r
(1) Proportional to r

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26. A circular road of radius 1000 m has banking angle 45 . The maximum safe speed of a car having mass 2000
kg will be, if the coefficient of friction between tyre and road is 0.5
(1) 172 m/s (2) 124 m/s (3) 99 m/s (4) 86 m/s

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  
  ˆ  4ˆj  kˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ
27. What is the value of linear velocity , if 3i and r  5i  6 j  6k
ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ
(1) 6i  2 j  3k (2) 18i  13j  2k (3) 4i  13j  6k (4) 6i  2 j  8k

28. For a particle in uniform circular motion, the acceleration at a point P(R,  ) on the circle of radius R is (Here
a
 is measured from the x-axis)
v2 ˆ v2 ˆ v2 ˆ v2 ˆ v2 ˆ v2 ˆ v2 v2
i j  cos i  sin j  sin i  cos j  cos i  sin ˆj
ˆ
(1) R R (2) R R (3) R R (4) R R

29. A roller coaster is designed such that riders experience “weightlessness” as they go round the top of a hill
whose radius of curvature is 20 m . The speed of the car at the top of the hill is between
(1) 16 m/s and 17m/s (2) 13m/s and 1 (3) 14m/s and 15m/s (4) 15m/s and 16 m/s

30. A particle is moving with a uniform speed v in a circular path of radius r with the centre at O. When the particle
moves from a point P to Q on the circle such that  POQ =  , then the magnitude of the change in velocity is
 
2v sin   2v cos  
2v sin  2  2 2
(1) (2) Zero (3) (4)

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 ANDHERI / BORIVALI / DADAR / CHEMBUR / THANE / MULUND/ NERUL / POWAI
Mains TW-Test
Circular Motion

Answer Key
1. (3) 2. (2) 3. (3) 4. (2) 5. (3) 6. (4) 7. (3) 8. (2) 9. (1)

10. (1) 11. (3) 12. (3) 13. (2) 14. (3) 15. (2) 16. (1) 17. (1) 18. (1)

19. (2) 20. (2) 21. (1) 22. (1) 23. (1) 24. (1) 25. (2) 26. (1) 27. (2)

28. (4) 29. (3) 30. (3)

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