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MOTION IN 1-D Worksheet -01

(A) Equation of Motion
1. A car moves 20 km with a speed of 50 km/hr and another 30 km with a speed of 40 km/hr.
Find the average speed.
2. A car covers 30 km at a uniform speed of 40 km/hr. What should be its speed for the next 90 km so
that the average speed for the entire journey is 70 km/hr.
3. A boy runs for 15 minutes at a uniform speed of 10 km/hr. At what speed should he run for the next
45 minutes so that average speed comes to 12 km/hr.
4. A ball starting from rest rolls down an inclined plane with an acceleration of 8m/s2. Calculate the
distance it would travel in 6 seconds.
5. A sprinter running with a velocity of 9 m/s stops in 5s. Find his acceleration and the distance
traveled while stopping.
6. The velocity of a train increases from 36 km/hr to 54 km/hr in 10s. Calculate acceleration of train in
m/s2.
7. If brakes applied to a car moving initially at 6 m/s produced a negative acceleration of 60 cm/s2 ,
what distance will the car travel further if it takes 10 seconds to stop.
8. A bullet striking against a block of wood with a velocity of 360 m/s pierces a hole in it 12 cm deep.
Calculate the deceleration of the bullet.
9. A particle moving with a uniform acceleration attains a velocity of 40 m/s after starting from rest in
a certain time. What is its average velocity during the period.
10. A body is moving with a velocity of 25 m/s. A uniform negative acceleration acts on it so that the body
travels 57 m in the next 5s. Find the magnitude of the negative acceleration.
11. A car travelling at a speed of 15 m/s is stopped by applying brakes within 30 s. If the deceleration
be uniform, calculate the distance travelled by the car after applying brakes before it comes to a
stop.
12. A bullet is fired vertically with a velocity of 49 m/s. Calculate :
(i) maximum height it would reach.
(ii) time required to reach the maximum height.
13. To estimate the value of 'g' a stone was released from the top of a building 31.25 m in height. The
stone reached the ground in 2.5 s. Find the value of 'g'.
14. A particle having initial velocity of 20 m/s moves with a constant acceleration 2 m/s2 for 15s. Find
displacement of the particle in (i) 10 seconds (ii) 10th second.
15. A body moving with a constant acceleration travels the distance 3m and 8m respectively in 1s and
2s. Calculate : (i) initial velocity (ii) acceleration of the body

(B) Graphs

1. Draw velocity-time graph when a body is moving with variable velocity & uniform retardation.
2. (i) If a body is in motion with variable acceleration, what will be the nature of velocity time graph,
(ii) How will you calculate displacement in such graph?
3. a) Define (i) speed (ii) velocity b) State the units of the above in C.G.S. & S.I. systems.
c) Give two differences between speed & velocity.
4. (i) Define the term acceleration
(ii) When is acceleration (a) positive (b) negative (c) constant?
(iii) State the unit of acceleration in C.G.S. & S.I. system.
5. Give an example of an accelerated body moving with uniform speed. Explain your answer.
6. How do you calculate (i) velocity from displacement-time graph (ii) Acceleration from velocity-time
graph
(iii) Displacement from velocity-time graph
7. Draw the following v-t graph : (i) The body is in motion with uniform velocity
(ii) The body is in motion & acceleration is zero.
(iii) Moving body has uniform acceleration,
(iv) Initially the body is moving with some velocity & then attains retardation.
8. How does acceleration due to gravity vary with the following:
(i) At the equator (ii) At the poles (iii) At a high attitude (iv) deep inside earth.
9. A train starts from rest and picks up 20 m/s speed in 200s. It continues to move at the same rate for
the next 500s & then brought to rest in another 100s. (i) Plot a speed time graph. (ii) From the
graph calculate
(a) Acceleration (b) Retardation (c) Total distance covered (d) Average Speed.
10. When is the graph of one physical quantity versus another an inclined straight line and what is the
relation between the two quantities?
11. Explain the given graphs
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C D
B
D D D B
I II C
III
B

A T A T A T

A B D E B VI
V V V B C
IV A V
C D
T A T

12. Velocity (m/s) 20 20 10 20 0

Time (sec) 0 5 7 10 15
The table above shows the velocity of a motor bike at various intervals of time.
1. Plot the velocity time graph.
2. Calculate deceleration between 5 sec. & 7 sec
3. Calculate acceleration between 7 sec & 10 sec.
4. Calculate deceleration between 10 sec & 15 s
5. Total distance covered.
6. Average velocity of bike.
13. Sketch a v-t graph of a ball when thrown up & returns to ground.
14. A stone dropped from top of a cliff reaches ground level in 4s and then buries itself into 0.8 m of mud.
Calculate
(i) Height of the cliff (ii) Final velocity of stone on reaching the ground level.
(iii) Deceleration produced by mud (g - 9.8m/s2).
15. An athlete runs around a circular path of 360m in 1 min & reaches the starting point. Calculate
(i) Distance covered (ii) Displacement (iii) Average speed.
16. Two stones are projected from top of a tower 100m high each with a velocity 20m/s. One is projected
vertically
upwards, other vertically downwards. Calculate the time taken by each to reach the ground &
velocity with which it strikes the ground.
17. Explain the motion of a body according to the nature of following graph, only if such graph is possible.
(i) Displacement time graph is parallel to the displacement axis.
(ii) Displacement time graph is parallel to the time axis.
(iii) Displacement time graph is a curve with a positive slope.
(iv) Velocity time graph is parallel to the time axis.
(v) Velocity time graph is a curve.
SECTION 2
1. Fig. given along side shows a velocity time graph for two cars P& Q starting from the same point in
the same direction Calculate (i) acceleration of car P, (ii) acceleration of car Q between 2s
5s. (iii) At what time both cars have the same velocity. (iv) Which car is ahead after 10s and by how
much?
2. A man is standing at the top of a 60m high tower. He throws a ball vertically upwards with a
velocity of 20m/s at what time will the ball pass him going downwards. How long after its release
the ball touches the ground.

35 P
30
velocity m/sec

25 Q
20
16
10 (3, 10)
5

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
time (s)
3. The driver of a car travelling at 52km/h applies the brakes and decelerates uniformly. The car stops
in 5s. Another driver going at 34km/hr applies his brakes slower & stops after 10s. On the same graph,
plot the speed versus time graph for the two cars. Which of the two cars travelled further after the
brakes were applied?
4. A man fires a gun and hears its echo after 5s. The man moves 320m in towards the hill & fires his gun
again.
This time he hears the echo after 3s. Calculate the speed of sound.
5. A body starts with initial velocity 4m/s & accelerates at 1.5 m/s2 for 6s. It travels with this speed for
another 8s and then comes to rest with uniform retardation in another 10s. Draw a velocity time
graph to show the motion of the body from your graph. Find out -
(i) Distance travelled during acceleration, (ii) Average velocity of the body,
(iii) Value of retardation.
6. Draw a diagram to show the motion of a body whose speed remains constant but velocity changes
continuously.
7. A body falls freely from certain height. Show graphically the relation between the distance fallen &
the square of the time. How will you determine the value of 'g' from the graph?
8. Find (i) Acceleration of the body, (ii) Deceleration (iii) Distance covered by the body,
(iv) Modify the above graph if it is given that the body moves with constant speed 15m/s between 3-
4s then comes to rest at B.

15
10
velocity

O B
1 2 3 4 5
time
9. A bullet initially moving with a velocity of 20m/s strikes a target and Comes to rest after
penetrating a distance of 10cms in the target. Calculate the retardation caused by the target.
10. The speedometer reading of a truck is given below
T 0 5 10 15 20
S 0 5 10 15 15
(i) Draw the velocity time graph of the truck. (ii) Describe the motion of the truck.
 (iii)Calculate the distance covered by the truck in first 10s.
(iv)What is the total distance travelled by the truck?
11. A stone is dropped freely in a river from a bridge. It takes 5s to touch the water surface in the
river. Calculate the height of the bridge from the river (g=9.8m/s2).
12. A ball is dropped from the top of a tower 40m high. What is its velocity when it has covered 20m?
What is its velocity when it hits the ground?
13. A ball is dropped from the jumping board of a swimming pool which is at a height of 20 m. A second
ball is thrown from the same board after 1 s with initial velocity u. Both the balls hit the water
together. What was the initial velocity with which the second ball is thrown? Do they hit the; water
with same velocity? Explain.
14. A rocket is launched to travel vertically upwards with a constant velocity 20m/s. After travelling
for 35s the rocket develops a snag & its fuel supply is cut off. The rocket then travels like a free body.
What is the total height achieved by it? After what time of its launch will it come back to earth?
15. Suggest real life examples about the motion from the following v-t graph.
Velocity

Velocity

Velocity
Time Time Time
Velocity

Velocity

Velocity

Time Time Time

16. The following is the distance time table of a moving car
TIME (a.m.) 10:05 10:25 10:40 10:50 11 :00 11 :10 11 :25 11 : 40

DISTANCE (km) 0 5 12 22 26 28 32 42
(a) Use a graph paper & plot the distance travelled by the car versus time.
(b) When was the car travelling at greatest speed?
(c) What is the average speed of the car?
(d) What is the speed between 11: 25 am & 11: 40 a.m.?
(d) During a part of the journey the car was forced to slow down to 12 km. At what distance did this
happen?
17. Two Trains 'A' & 'B' are approaching towards each other from opposite directions. Speed of train 'A' is
60 km/hr and that of 'B' is 40 km/hr. When the two trains are at a distance of 200 km a bird sitting on
the engine of train A takes off for train B with a speed of 82 km/hr. As soon as it reaches 'B' its starts
again for A. It continues to so till the two trains collide? Find the distance covered by the bird?