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ASSIGNMENT : MOTION
1. Difference between distance and displacement.
Ans.: Differences between distance and displacement are given below:
Distance Displacement
It is the length of the actual path by travelled object, irrespective of Displacement is the shortest distance between the initial and final
its direction of motion. position of an object in a given direction.
Distance is a scalar quantity. Displacement is a vector quantity.
Distance covered can never be negative. It is always positive or Displacement may be positive, negative or zero.
zero.
Distance between two given points may be same or direct for Displacement between two given points is always the same.
different path chosen.
2. Differentiate distance and displacement.
Ans.: Difference between distance and Displacement:
Distance Displacement
1. The distance traveled by a moving body is the actual 1. The displacement body is the shortest distance between the
length of the path covered by the body, irrespective of initial and the final positions of the body.
the direction.
2. It is a scalar quantity. 2. It is a vector quantity.
3. Distance traveled is always positive. 3. Displacement may be positive, negative or zero.
4. Distance traveled is always greater than or equal to the 4. Displacement is always less than or equal to the distance
displacement. traveled.

3. How does velocity differ from Speed?

Ans.: Difference between velocity and Speed:
Speed Velocity
1. The distance traveled by a moving body per unit time is 1. The distance traveled by a moving body in a particular direction
called its speed. per unit time is called its velocity.
2. Speed is a scalar quantity. 2. Velocity is a vector quantity.

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4. Distance between velocity and acceleration :

Ans.: Difference between velocity and acceleration:

Velocity Acceleration
1. The rate of change of position of a body in a certain direction is 1. The rate of change of velocity is called acceleration.
known as velocity. 2. S.I. unit is ms – 2.
2. S.I. unit is Ms – 1. 3. Acceleration = Change in velocity
3. Velocity = displacement Time
Time

5. Distinguish between acceleration and Retardation (deceleration).

Ans.: Difference between acceleration and retardation (deceleration)
Acceleration Retardation (deceleration)
1. If the velocity of a body increases, then the rate of change 1. If the velocity of a body decreases, then the rate of change of
of velocity is positive and is called acceleration. velocity is negative and is called retardation.
2. A body falls freely from a height freely from a height 2. If a body is thrown in the upward direction and Its velocity
–2
with a uniform acceleration of 9.8 ms . direction decreases uniformly at the rate of 9.8 ms – 2, then it
3. v > u (final velocity is more than the initial velocity). has uniform retardation of 9.8 ms – 2.
3. v < u (final velocity is less than the initial velocity).

6. How are the states of rest motion relative?

Ans.: States of rest and motion are relative because they are interpreted according to the change in position of the object with respect to the
origin. For example, mountains, trees etc. are at rest with respect to us. But to an astronaut in outer space, they are in motion as the earth is
rotating.
7. What causes the phenomena of sunrise, sunset and change of seasons? How do we perceive this cause?
Ans.: The motion of earth around the sun causes change of seasons. We perceive the motion of earth by observing the change in positions
of stars, moon, planets etc. located in outer space.
8. On the same velocity – time graph, represent uniform acceleration, position acceleration and negative acceleration.

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9. The motion of four cars A, B, C and D is represented below. Which of the cars is travelling (a) the fastest (b) the slowest?
10. Find the displacement of the body in first 10 seconds in the following graph.
11. Represent the given data graphically.
Time (in sec.) 0 2 4 6
Distance (in m) 0 5 10 20
12. A cyclist travels a distance of 4 km from P to Q and then moves a distance of 3 km at right angle to PQ. Find his displacement.
13. Represent the following through velocity time graph:
(a) Uniform motion (b) Object thrown vertically upwards.
14. (a) What can be depicted from the graph regarding the motion of the object?
(b) Find the value of acceleration from the graph.
15. Find the displacement of a body whose velocity time graph is shown below:
16. The velocity – time graph of a body is shown below:
(a) State the kind of motion represented by OA and AB.
(b) Find the velocity of the body after 10 s and after 40 s.
(c) What is the negative acceleration of the body?
(d) Find the distance travelled between 10th and 30th second.
17. Study the given graph and answer the following questions.
(i) Which part of the graph shows accelerated motion?
(ii) Which part of the graph shows retarded motion?
(iii) Calculate the distance travelled by the body in first 4 seconds of journey graphically.
18. The graph given alongside show how the speed of a car changes with time.
(i) What is the initial speed of the car?
(ii) What is the maximum speed attained by the car?
(iii) Which part of the graph shows zero acceleration?
(iv) Which part of the graph shows varying retardation?
(v) Find the distance travelled in first 8 hours.
19. Study the velocity – time graph and calculate.
(a) The acceleration from A and B
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(b) The acceleration from B to C

(c) The distance covered in the region ABE
(d) The average velocity from C to D
(e) The distance covered in the region BCEF
20. The velocity graph of a particle of mass 50 g moving in a definite direction is shows in the following figure. Answer the question based
on this figure.
(a) What is the velocity of the particle at point ‘A’?
(b) Find the momentum of the particle at time t = 4 s.
(c) What does the slope of a graph represent?
(d) Calculate the distance travelled is 4 seconds?
21. Is it possible that magnitude of displacement is equal to distance travelled by an object? Support your reply with a relevant
example.
Ans.: Yes, the magnitude of displacement equals distance if the object travels in a straight line in same direction. For example, a trains
starts on a straight track from station A to station B, its distance equals displacement.
22. A body can have zero average velocity but not zero average speed. Why?
Ans.: The average velocity of a body is zero if Its displacement is zero, i.e., the object comes back to its initial position. However, the
distance covered by the body is Not zero, hence average speed is non – zero.
23. Velocity –time graph for the motion of an object in a straight path is a straight line parallel to the time axis.
(a) Identify the nature of motion of the object.
(b) Find the acceleration of the object.
(c) Draw the shape of distance – time graph for this type of motion.
Ans.: (a) Uniform motion (b) Zero (c)

Numericals
1. A scooterist covers a distance of 3 kilometres in 5 minutes. Calculate his speed in:
(i) Centimetres per second (cm/s) [Ans.: 1000 centimetres per second.]

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(ii) Metres per second (m/s) [Ans.: 10 metres per second]

(iii) Kilometers per hour (km/h) [Ans.: 36 kilometres per hour]
2. Arrange the following speeds in increasing order (keeping the least speed first):
(i) An athlete running with a speed of 10 m/s.
(ii) A bicycle moving with a speed of 200 m/min.
(iii) A scooter moving with a speed of 30 km/h. [Ans.: 200 m/min < 30 km/h < 10 m/s]
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3. A motorcyclist drives from place A to B with a uniform speed of 30 km h and returns from place B to A with a uniform speed of 20 km h
–1
. Find his average speed. [Ans.: 24 km h-i ]
4. A car travels a 30 km at a uniform speed of 40 km/h and the next 30 km at a uniform speed of 20 km/h. Find its average speed.
[Ans.: ¾ hours; (ii) 3/2 hours. A. S. 26.6 km/h]
5. On a 120 km track, a train travels the first 30 km at a uniform speed of 30 km/h. How fast must the train travel the next 90 km so as to
average 60 km/h for the entire trip? [Ans.: 90 km/h]
6. A farmer moves along the boundary of a square field of side 10 m in 40 s. What will be the magnitude of displacement of the farmer at the
end of 2 min 20 s from his initial position? [Ans.: 14.14 m]
7. An athlete completes one round of a circular track of diameter 200 m in 40 s. What will be the distance covered and the displacement at the
end of 2 min 20 s? [Ans.: (i) 2.2 km; (ii) 200 m]
8. Abdul, while driving to school, computes the average speed for his trip to be 20 km – 1. On his return trip along the same route, there is less
traffic and the average speed is 30 kmh – 1. What is the average speed for Abdul’s trip? [Ans.: 80/3 kmh – 1]

1. A bullet traveling at 30 ms – 1 pierces a hole 10 cm deep in a block of wood before it comes to rest. Calculate the deceleration of bullet.

2. If a body has a velocity 50 cm s – 1 and the uniform acceleration is 5 cm s – 2, find the time it takes to travel a distance 240 cm.

3. A racing car has a uniform acceleration of 4 m/s2. What distance will it cover in 10 seconds after the start?

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4. A train is traveling at a speed of 90 km/h, the brakes are applied so as to produce a uniform acceleration of – 0.5 ms – 2. Find how far the
train goes before it stops.

5. A trolley rolls down an inclined plane with a constant acceleration of 2 ms/ 2. Find the distance traveled between the instants when its
velocities are 10 m/s and 16 m/s.

6. On turning a corner, motorist with a speed of 90 km/h finds a child on the road 50 m ahead. He applied brakes and stops the car just in
front of the child. Calculate the retardation.

7. A boy goes to his school with the speed of 4 km/hr. He finds that his school is closed and the comes back to his home with the speed of 6
km/hr. What is his average speed?

8. A girl moves with the speed of 6 km/hr for 2 hrs and with the speed off 4 km/hr for next 3 hrs. Find the average speed of the girl and total
distance moved.

9. A ship is moving at a speed of 56 km/h. One second later, it is moving at 58 km/h. What is its acceleration?

10. On turning a corner, a motorist rushing at 44 m/s finds a child on the road 100 m ahead. He instantly stops the engine and applies the
brakes so as to stop it within 1 m of the child. Calculate the time required to stop it.

11. When brakes are applied to a bus, the retardation produced is 25 cms – 1 and the bus takes 20 s to stop. Calculate (i) the initial velocity of
bus and (ii) the distance traveled by bus during this time.

12. Starting from a stationary position, Rahul paddles his bicycle to attain a velocity of 6 ms – 1 in 30 s. Then he applies brakes so that the
velocity of the bicycle comes down to 4 ms – 1 in the next 5 s. Calculate the acceleration of the bicycle in both the cases.

13. The velocity of a sprinter is 9 ms – 1. After 4 s, his velocity becomes zero. If the acceleration is taken to be uniform, find its value.

14. A train starting from rest attains a velocity of 72 km/h in 5 minutes. Assuming that the acceleration is uniform, find (i) the acceleration and
(ii) the distance traveled by the train for attaining this velocity.

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15. The brakes applied in a car produce a negative acceleration of 6 ms – 2. If the car takes 2 seconds to stop after applying the brakes, calculate
the distance it travels during this time.

First Equation of Motion : v = u + at.

Second Equation of Motion: s = ut + ½ at2
Third Equation of Motion: v2 = u2 + 2as

Statement: -
(i) If a body starts from rest, its initial velocity, u = 0
(ii) If a body comes to rest (it stops), its final velocity, v = 0
(iii) If a body moves with uniform velocity, its acceleration, a = 0

ASSIGNMENT: SCIENCE (MOTION)

1. A cheetah is the fastest animals and can achieve a peak value velocity of 100 km/h up to a distance less than 500 m. If a cheetah spots his
prey at a distance of 100 m, what is the minimum time it will take to get its prey?
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2. A sprinter in a 100 m race, covers 4 m in the first second, 30 m in the next 4 s, 52 m in another 4 s and finishes the race in 10 s.

(a) Calculate the average velocity of the sprinter.

(b) In which tine interval, is average velocity attained by the sprinter maximum? State this velocity in appropriate units.

(c) Plot the distance tine for the motion of the sprinter.

3. A ball dropped from the top of a building reaches the ground in 3 seconds. Calculate (i) the velocity with which it strikes the ground. (ii)
the height of The building.

4. The average time taken by a normal person to react to an emergency is one fifteenth of a second and is called ‘reaction time’. If a bus is
moving with a velocity of 60 km/h and its driver sees a child running across the road, how much distance would the bus had moved before
he could press the brakes? The reaction time of the people increases when they are intoxicated. How much distance had the bus moved if
the reaction time of the driver ½ s under the influence of alcohol?

5. A bullet traveling at 30 ms – 1 pierces a hole 10 cm deep in a block of wood before it comes to rest. Calculate the deceleration of bullet.

6. A circular cycle track has a circumference of 314 m with AB as one of its diameter. A cyclist travels from A to B along the circular path
with a velocity of constant magnitude 15.7 m/s. Find:

(i) the distance moved by the cyclist.

(ii) the displacement of the cyclist if AB represents north – south direction.

(iii) the average velocity of the cyclist.

7. If a body has a velocity 50 cm s – 1 and the uniform acceleration is 5 cm s – 2, find the time it takes to travel a distance 240 cm.

8. A racing car has a uniform acceleration of 4 m/s2. What distance will it cover in 10 seconds after the start?

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9. A train is traveling at a speed of 90 km/h, the brakes are applied so as to produce a uniform acceleration of – 0.5 ms – 2. Find how far the
train goes before it stops.

10. A trolley rolls down an inclined plane with a constant acceleration of 2 ms/ 2. Find the distance traveled between the instants when its
velocities are 10 m/s and 16 m/s.

11. On turning a corner, motorist with a speed of 90 km/h finds a child on the road 50 m ahead. He applied brakes and stops the car just in
front of the child. Calculate the retardation.

12. A boy goes to his school with the speed of 4 km/hr. He finds that his school is closed and the comes back to his home with the speed of 6
km/hr. What is his average speed?

13. A girl moves with the speed of 6 km/hr for 2 hrs and with the speed off 4 km/hr for next 3 hrs. Find the average speed of the girl and total
distance moved.

14. A ship is moving at a speed of 56 km/h. One second later, it is moving at 58 km/h. What is its acceleration?

15. On turning a corner, a motorist rushing at 44 m/s finds a child on the road 100 m ahead. He instantly stops the engine and applies the
brakes so as to stop it within 1 m of the child. Calculate the time required to stop it.

16. When brakes are applied to a bus, the retardation produced is 25 cms – 1 and the bus takes 20 s to stop. Calculate (i) the initial velocity of
bus and (ii) the distance traveled by bus during this time.

17. A police car moving on a highway with a speed of 30 km/h fires a bullet at a thief’s car speeding away in the same direction with a speed
of 192 km/h. If the muzzle speed of the bullet is 150 ms – 1, with what speed does the bullet hit the thief’s car?

18. A railway train 50 m long moving on straight and level track passes a pole in 5 seconds. Find (i) the speed of the train (ii) the time it will
take to cross a bridge 450 m long.

19. A radar spots an enemy plane. A radio pulse emitted by radar and reflected by the plane reaches back in 0.5  10 – 3 s. What is the distance
of the plane from the radar station? (Take speed of radar pulse = speed of light = 3  108 ms – 1).

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20. The odometer of a car reads 2000 km at the start of a trip and at 2400 km at the end of the trip. If trip 8 h, calculate is the average speed of
the car in km h – 1 and ms – 1?

21. Usha swims in a 90 m pool. She covers 180 m in one minute by swimming from one end to the other and back along a straight path. Find
the average speed and average velocity of Usha.

22. Suppose you walk across a room of length 9 m with a velocity of one and half kilometer per hour. Express this velocity in unit of m/s and
find the time you will take to move across the room.

23. An electric train is moving with a velocity of 120 km/h. How much distance will it move in 30 s?

24. Starting from a stationary position, Rahul paddles his bicycle to attain a velocity of 6 ms – 1 in 30 s. Then he applies brakes so that the
velocity of the bicycle comes down to 4 ms – 1 in the next 5 s. Calculate the acceleration of the bicycle in both the cases.

25. A motor car is traveling at 30 km hr – 1. After 10 s, the velocity becomes 60 km hr – 1. Assuming the velocity change took place at a uniform
rate, find the acceleration.

26. The velocity of a sprinter is 9 ms – 1. After 4 s, his velocity becomes zero. If the acceleration is taken to be uniform, find its value.

27. A train starting from rest attains a velocity of 72 km/h in 5 minutes. Assuming that the acceleration is uniform, find (i) the acceleration and
(ii) the distance traveled by the train for attaining this velocity.

28. A car acceleration uniformly from 18 km/h to 36 km/h in 5 seconds. Calculate (i) the acceleration (ii) the distance covered by the car in
that time.

29. The brakes applied in a car produce a negative acceleration of 6 ms – 2. If the car takes 2 seconds to stop after applying the brakes, calculate
the distance it travels during this time.

30. The speed of a car is reduced from 54 kmh – 1 to 36 kmh – 1 in a certain time during which it traveled a distance of 125 m. Calculate the
acceleration of the car.

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31. A car is traveling at 72 kmh – 1 and when the brakes are applied it experiences a uniform retardation of 2 ms – 2. How long does it take the
car to stop and how far does it travel from the instant the brakes are applied?

ASSIGNMENT: MOTION (Numericals]

9. A scooterist covers a distance of 3 kilometres in 5 minutes. Calculate his speed in:
(iv) Centimetres per second (cm/s) [Ans.: 1000 centimetres per second.]
(v) Metres per second (m/s) [Ans.: 10 metres per second]
(vi) Kilometers per hour (km/h) [Ans.: 36 kilometres per hour]
10. The train ‘A’ travelled a distance of 120 km in 3 hours whereas another train ‘B’ travelled a distance of 180 km in 4 hours. Which train travelled faster?
[Ans.: 45 kilometres per hour]
11. A car travels a 30 km at a uniform speed of 40 km/h and the next 30 km at a uniform speed of 20 km/h. Find its average speed.
[Ans.: ¾ hours; (ii) 3/2 hours. A. S. 26.6 km/h]
12. On a 120 km track, a train travels the first 30 km at a uniform speed of 30 km/h. How fast must the train travel the next 90 km so as to average 60 km/h
for the entire trip? [Ans.: 90 km/h]
13. A train travels at a speed of 60 km/h for 0.52 h, at 30 km/h for the next 0.24 h and then at 70 km/h for the next 0.71 h. What is the average speed of the
train? [Ans.: 59.9 km/h]

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14. A car travels a distance of 200 km from Delhi to Ambala towards North in 5 hours. Calculate (i) speed, and (ii) velocity, of the car for this journey.
[Ans.: (i) 40 km/h; (ii) 40 km/h towards North]
15. A bus covers a distance of 250 km from Delhi to Jaipur towards West in 5 hours in the morning and returns to Delhi in the evening covering the same
distance of 250 km in the same time of 5 hours. Find (a) average speed, and (b) average velocity, of the bus for the whole journey.
[Ans.: (i) 50 kilometres per hour. (ii) 0 km/h]
16. A driver decreases the speed of a car from 25 m/s to 10 m/s in 5 seconds. Find the acceleration of the car. [Ans.: – 3 m/s2 ]
17. Bus X travels a distance of 360 km in 5 hours whereas bus Y travels a distance of 476 km in 7 hours. Which bus travels faster?
[Ans.: X = 72 km/h; y = 68 km/h]
18. Arrange the following speeds in increasing order (keeping the least speed first):
(iv) An athlete running with a speed of 10 m/s. [Ans.: 200 m/min < 30 km/h < 10 m/s]
(v) A bicycle moving with a speed of 200 m/min.
(vi) A scooter moving with a speed of 30 km/h.
19. A train starting from Railway Station attains a speed of 21 m/s in one minute. Find its acceleration. [Ans.: 0.35 m/s2]
20. A snail covers a distance of 100 metres in 50 hours. Calculate the average speed of snail in km/h. [Ans.: 0.002 km/h]
21. A tortoise moves a distance of 100 metres in 1 hour. What is the average speed of tortoise in km/h? [Ans.: 0.4 km/h]
22. If a sprinter runs a distance of 100 metres in 9.83 seconds, calculate his average speed in km/h. [Ans.: 36.62 km/h]
23. A motorcyclist drives from place A to B with a uniform speed of 30 km h and returns from place B to A with a uniform speed of 20 km h – 1. Find his
–1

average speed. [Ans.: 24 km h-i ]

24. A motorcyclist starts from rest and reaches a speed of 6 m/s after travelling with uniform acceleration for 3 s. What is his acceleration?
[Ans.: 2 m/s2]
25. An aircraft travelling at 600 km/h accelerates steadily at 1o km/h per second. Taking the speed of sound as 1100 km/h at the aircraft’s altitude, how
long will it take to reach the sound barrier’? [Ans.: 50 s]
26. If a bus traveling at 20 m/s subjected to a steady deceleration of 5 m/s 2, how long will it take to come to rest? [Ans.: 4 s]
27. The distance between Delhi and Agra is 200 km. A train travels the first 100 km at a speed of 50 km/h. How fast must the train travel the next 100 km,
so as to average 70 km/h for the whole journey? [Ans.: 116.6 km/h]
28. A train travels the first 15 km at a uniform speed of 30 km/h; the next 75 km at a uniform speed of 50 km/h; and the last 10 km at a uniform speed of 20
km/h. Calculate the average speed for the entire train journey. [Ans.: 40 km/h]
29. A car is moving along a straight road at a steady speed. It travels 150 m in 5 seconds.
(a) What is its average speed? [Ans.: 30 m/s ]
(b) How far does it travel in 1 second? [Ans.: 30 m ]

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(c) How far does it travel in 6 seconds? [Ans.: 180 m ]

(d) How long does it take to travel 240 m? [Ans.: 8 s]
30. If on a round trip you travel 6 km and then arrive back home:
(a) What distance have you travelled? [Ans.: 6 km ]
(b) What is your final displacement? [Ans.: 0 ]
31. A body travels a distance of 3 km towards East, then 4 km towards North and finally 9 km towards East.
(i) What is the total distance travelled? [Ans.: 16 km]
(ii) What is the resultant displacement? [Ans.: 12.6 km]
32. A boy walks from his classroom to the bookshop along a straight corridor towards North. He covers a distance of 20 m in 25 seconds to reach the
bookshop. After buying a book, he travels the same distance in the same time to reach back in the classroom. Find (a) average speed, and (b) average
velocity of the boy. [Ans.: Average speed = 0.8 m/s; Average velocity = 0 m/s]
33. A car travels 100 km at a speed of 60 km/h and returns with a speed of 40 km/h. calculate the average speed for the whole journey.
[Ans.: 48 km/h]
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34. A ball hits a wall horizontally at 0.6 m s . It rebounds horizontally at 4.4 m s . The ball is in contact with the wall for 0.040 s. What is the
acceleration of the ball? [Ans.: – 260 m s – 2]
35. A scooter acquires a velocity of 36 km per hour in 10 seconds just after the start. Calculate the acceleration of the scooter. [Ans.: 1 m/s2.]
36. A moving train is brought to rest within 20 seconds by applying brakes. Find the initial velocity, if the retardation due to brakes is 2 m s – 2.
[Ans.: 40 meters per second]
37. A body starts to slide over a horizontal surface with an initial velocity of 0.5 m/s. Due to friction, its velocity decreases at the rate of 0.05 m/s 2
(acceleration, - 0.05 m/s2). How much time will it take for the body to stop? [Ans.: 10 Seconds]
38. A racing car has a uniform acceleration of 4 m/s 2. What distance will it cover in 10 seconds after the start? [Ans.: 200 meters.]
39. A scooter moving at a speed of 10 m/s stopped by applying brakes which produce a uniform acceleration of, - 0.5 m/s 2. How much distance will be
covered by the scooter before it stops? [Ans.: 100 meters.]
40. A car traveling at 20 km/h speed up to 60 km/h in 6 seconds. What is its acceleration? [Ans.: 1.85 m/s2]
41. A bus increases its speed from 20 km/h to 50 km/h in 10 seconds. Its acceleration. [Ans.: 0.83 m/s2.]
42. A cyclist goes around a circular track once every 2 minutes. If the radius of the circular track is 105 metres, calculate his speed. (Given = 22/7)
[Ans.: 5.5 metres per second.]
43. Find the initial velocity of a car which is stopped in 10 seconds by applying brakes. The retardation due to brakes is 2.5 m/s 2. [Ans. 25 m/s ]
44. Describe the motion of a body which is acceleration at a constant rate of 10 ms – 2. If the body starts from rest, how much distance will it cover in 2 s?
[Ans.: The velocity of this body is increasing at a rate of ’10 meters per second’ every second; 20 m]

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45. A motorcycle moving with a speed of 5 m/s is subjected to an acceleration of 0.2 m/s 2. Calculate the speed of the motorcycle after 10 seconds, and the
distance traveled in this time. [Ans.: 7 m/s; 60 m ]
46. A bus running at a speed of 18 km/h is stopped in 2.5 seconds by applying brakes. Calculate the retardation produced. [Ans.: 2 m/s2 ]
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47. A train starting from rest moves with a uniform acceleration of 0.2 m/s for 5 minutes. Calculate the speed acquired and the distance traveled in this
time. [Ans.: 60m/s ; 9 km]
48. A cheetah starts from rest, and accelerates at 2 m/s 2 for 10 seconds. Calculate :
(a) the final velocity (b) the distance traveled. [Ans.: (a) 20 m/s (b) 100 m/s]
49. A train traveling at 20 ms -1 accelerates at 0.5 ms – 2 for 30 s. How far will it travel in this time? [Ans.: 825 m]
50. A cyclist is traveling at 15 ms-1. She applies brakes so that she does not collide with a wall 18 m away. What deceleration must she have?
[Ans.: 6.25 ms – 2]
51. A body starting from rest travels with uniform acceleration. If it travels 100 m in 5 s, what is the value of acceleration? [Ans.: 8 m/s2]
52. A bus was moving with a speed of 54 km/h. On applying brakes it stopped in 8 seconds. Calculate the acceleration. [Ans.: - 1.87 m/s2]
53. A train starting from stationary position and moving with uniform acceleration attains a speed of 36 km per hour in 10 minutes. Find its acceleration.
[Ans.: 0.016 m/s2]
54. A car acquires a velocity of 72 km per hour in 10 seconds starting from rest. Find (i) the acceleration, (ii) the average velocity, and (iii) the distance
traveled in this time. [Ans.: (i) 2 m/s2 (ii) 10 m/s (iii) 100 m]
55. The tip of seconds’ hand of a clock takes 60 seconds to move one on the circular dial of the clock. If the radius of the dial of the clock be 10.5 cm,
calculate the speed of the tip of the seconds’ hand of the clock. (given = 22/7) [Ans.: 0.011 m/s]
56. A car is travelling along the road at 8 m s – 1. It accelerates at 1 ms – 1 for a distance of 18 m. How fast is it then travelling? [Ans.: 10 m s – 1]
A car is travelling at 20 m/s along a road. A child runs out into the road 50 m ahead and the car driver steps on the brake pedal. What must the car’s
deceleration be if the car is to stop just before it reaches the child?

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ASSIGNMENT : MOTION
1. A car travels a 30 km at a uniform speed of 40 km/h and the next 30 km at a uniform speed of 20 km/h. Find its average speed.
[Ans.: ¾ hours; (ii) 3/2 hours. A. S. 26.6 km/h]
2. On a 120 km track, a train travels the first 30 km at a uniform speed of 30 km/h. How fast must the train travel the next 90 km so as to
average 60 km/h for the entire trip? [Ans.: 90 km/h]
3. A motorcyclist drives from place A to B with a uniform speed of 30 km h – 1 and returns from place B to A with a uniform speed of 20 km h
–1
. Find his average speed. [Ans.: 24 km h-i ]
4. The distance between Delhi and Agra is 200 km. A train travels the first 100 km at a speed of 50 km/h. How fast must the train travel the
next 100 km, so as to average 70 km/h for the whole journey?
[Ans.: 116.6 km/h]
5. A car travels 100 km at a speed of 60 km/h and returns with a speed of 40 km/h. calculate the average speed for the whole journey.
[Ans.: 48 km/h]
6. The graph given alongside shows the positions of a body at different times. Calculate the speed of the body as it moves from:

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(i) A to B, (ii) B to C, and (iii) C to D

7. A person travels a distance of 4.0 m towards east, then turns left and travels 3.0 m towards North.
[Ans.: (i) Total Distance 7 m; (ii) Displacement = 5m]
8. A person travels on a semi – circular track of radius 50 m during a morning walk. If he starts from one end of the track and reaches the
other end, calculate the distance travelled and displacement of the person. [Ans.: Distance = 157.14 m;
Displacement = 100 m]
9. A car moving with a speed of 72 km/h is brought to rest in 10 seconds by applying brakes. Find the magnitude of average retardation due
to brakes and distance travelled by car after applying the brakes.
[Ans.: (i) Retardation = 2 m/s2; (ii) S = 100 m]
10. Draw position – time graph of for
(a) Rest (b) uniform motion (c) Non – uniform motion
11. Draw velocity – time graph for
(a) Uniform motion (b) Uniform acceleration (c) Uniform retardation
12. Explain the difference between the two graphs.

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