SPEED AND VELOCITY

1. A boy starts moving along a circular path of radius 7m. If the boy moves uniformly with 4m/s
then his avg. velocity after ½ revolution is
1) 4m/s 2) 14/11 m/s 3) 28/11 m/s 4) 2m/s
2. A boy travels 5km eastwards, 4km northwards and then 2km westward. He takes 2hr for this
journey. The magnitude of average velocity of the boy is
1) 5kmph 2) 3kmph 3) 2.5kmph 4) 5.5kmph
3. A body travels towards north with velocity 2m/s for 20 s and then moves towards east with
velocity 3m/s for 10 s. Its average velocity is
1) 2.5 m/s 2) 5/3 m/s 3) 7/3 m/s 4) 50/3 m/s
4. A car starts at one vertex of a square track of side 125m and reaches the starting point in 50s.
Find the speed of the car.
1) 10m/s 2) 2.5m/s 3) 5m/s 4) 7.5m/s
5. During a journey a car travels with a speed of 20kmph for first one hour, with a speed of
25kmph for next two hours. Find the total distance travelled by the car in three hours.
1) 45km 2) 65km 3) 95km 4) 70km
6. A car travels in a circular path of radius 7km, at 44kmph, for one and half hour. Find the
distance and displacement of the car.
1) 66km, 66km 2) 66km, 22km 3) 66km, 14km 4) 66km, 28km
7. A car goes round circular path of radius 14km at a constant speed of 22km/hr. Find the
distance and displacement on the car at the end of 5hrs.
1) 110km, 110km 2) 110km, 142 km 3) 110km, 14km 4) 110km, 28km
8. A car moving with a constant speed of 10m/s covers two rounds of a circular track in 10s. Find
the radius of circular track.
1) 25/ m 2) /25 m 3) 50/ m 4) /50 m
9. A car travels from station A to B at 30kmph and then back to A at 70kmph. Find the average
speed and average velocity of the car.
1) 35kmph, 35kmph 2) 42kmph, zero 3) 42kmph, 42kmph 4) 35kmph, zero
10. A man travels with a speed 30kmph for first half of the journey time and with a speed of
70kmph for the next half of the journey time. Find the average speed of the man.
1) 50kmph 2) 100kmph 3) 42kmph 4) zero
11. A car travels a speed of 120kmph for 1 hr and halts for ½ an hour and then resumes the journey
with speed of 100kmph for the next 1 ½ hour. Find the average speed.
1) 110kmph 2) 108kmph 3) 90kmph 4) 220/3 kmph
12. A boy travels with speeds v1, v2 & v3 for three successive time intervals which are in the ratio 1
: 1 : 2. Find the average speed.
1) (v1+2v2+3v3)/4 2) (v1+v2+2v3)/4 3) (v1+2v2+2v3) 4) (v1+v2+v3)/3
13. A boy travels with speeds v1, v2 & v3 for three successive time intervals which are in the ratio
1 : 2 : 3. Find the average speed.
1) (v1+2v2+3v3)/6 2) (v1+v2+v3)/6 3) (v1+2v2+3v3) 4) (v1+v2+v3)/3
14. A car travels from station A to station B at 30kmph during its return trip to A, it travels at
30kmph for first half distance and at 70kmph for next half distance. Find the average speed of the
car. Find also its average velocity.
1) 40kmph, zero 2) 40kmph, 40kmph 3) 35kmph, 35kmph 4) 35kmph, zero
15. A car travels from station A to station B at 30kmph during return trip to A, it travels at 30kmph
for first half of journey time and at 70kmph for next half of journey time. Find the average speed
and average velocity of the car.
1) 40kmph, 40kmph 2) 40kmph, zero 3) 37.5kmph, zero 4) 37.5kmph, 37.5kmph
16. A car travels with speed v1 for the first half of the journey distance, during the second half of the
journey distance it travelled with a speed of v2 for half of the time and with a speed of v3 for
remaining journey time. Find the average speed.
v1 (v2  v3 ) 2v1 (v2  v3 ) 2v1 (v2  v3 ) v1 (v2  v3 )
1) 2) 3) 4)
v1  v2  v3 2v1  v2  v3 v1  v2  v3 2v1  v2  v3
17. A car travels with speed v1 for the first half of the journey time, during the second half of the
journey time it travelled with a speed of v2 for half of the distance and with a speed of v3 for
remaining journey distance. Find the average speed.
v1 (v2  v3 )  2v2 v3 v1 (v2  v3 )  v2 v3 v1 (v2  v3 )  2v2 v3 v1 (v2  v3 )  v2 v3
1) 2) 3) 4)
2(v2  v3 ) 2(v2  v3 ) (v2  v3 ) (v2  v3 )
18. The length of a hill slope is 200m. A boy starts at the foot of the hill at 10:00 AM. After
travelling for one hour, he relaxes for half an hour and finally reaches the hill top at 2:00 P.M. He
takes rest for an hour. He resumes journey at 3:00 P.M and reaches the foot of the hill at 4:00
P.M. Find the average speed (kmph) for
i) upward journey ii) downward journey.
1) 50, 200 2) 0.5, 2 3) 0.5, 0.2 4) 0.05, 0.2
19. A person walks a distance of 30m along west with a speed of 2m/s
and 40m along north with a speed of 4m/s .Find his average speed
and average velocity
1) 2.8m/s,2m/s
2) 3m/s,4m/s
3) 5m/s,2.8m/s 4) 1.8m/s, 2.4m/s
E V D
20. A body is moving along the regular hexagonal path as shown in
V a
figure. Find the average speed and average velocity of the body a V
a
from A to D. F C
a a
2V V 2V 2V 2V V a V
1) 2V, 2) , 3) V, 4) ,V
3 3 3 3 3 A V B

21. A body is moving along the circular path of radius r and it takes T sec for a complete revolution.
3T
Find the ratio of average speed and average velocity for sec.
4
1) 7:1 2) 11:7 3) 2 :2 4) 3:2 2
22. A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5km away with a speed of 5km /h.
Finding market closed, he instantly turn and walks back home with a speed of 7.5km/h. What is
the a) Magnitude of average velocity b) Average speed of the man over the interval of time
i) 0 to 30 min ii) 0 to 50 min iii) 0 to 40 min
1) i)5km/h,5km/h, ii)0,6km/h iii)1.875km/h, 5.625km/h
2) i)5km/h,5km/h, ii)0,16km/h iii)2.875km/h, 5.625km/h
3) i)15km/h,5km/h, ii)0,6km/h iii)1.875km/h, 5.625km/h
 4) i)25km/h,5km/h, ii)0,16km/h iii)2.875km/h, 5.6 25km/h
23. A particle starts moving along x – axis, with constant velocity 4m/s. After 2s from the start of
motion of the first particle, another particle starts in the same direction, with the same position
with constant velocity of 6m/s. calculate the time at which second particle will catch the first
particle.
1) 5s 2) 3s 3) 2s 4) 6s
24. Two trains P and Q moving along parallel tracks with same uniform speed of 20m/s. the driver of
train P decides to overtake train Q and accelerate his train 1m/s. After 50s, the train crosses the
engine of the train Q. find out what was the distance between the two trains initially provided the
length of each train is 400m.
1) 120 m 2) 800m 3) 450m 4) 300m
25. A car travels with speeds V, 2V, 3V ....... nV for successive time intervals which are in the ratio 1
: 2 : 3 ......n. Find the average speed of the car.

 2n  1 v  2n  1 v  n  1 v
1) 2)  2n  1 v 3) 4)
3 2 2
26. A boy travels with speeds V, 2V, 3V ...................... nV during successive journey distances which
are in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 : ......n. Find the average speed of the boy.

 2n  1 v  2n  1 v  n  1 v
1) 2)  2n  1 v 3) 4)
3 2 2

KEY
1) 3 2) 3 3) 2 4) 1 5) 4 6) 3 7) 2 8) 1 9) 2 10) 1
11) 3 12) 2 13) 1 14) 4 15) 2 16) 2 17) 1g 18) 4 19) 1 20) 3
21) 4 22) 1 23) 4 24) 3 25) 1 26) 4