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with respect to the first as shown in the figure. The car towards the other and is moving with the speed of
equation of the linear part is 36 km h- when the two cars were separated by 36
y-}(m) km. The total distance covered by the bird is
(a) 28.8 km (b) 38.8 km
120
(c) 48.8 km (d) 58.8 km
100
80
89. A police van moving on a highway with a speed of
60 30 km h fires a bullet at a thief's car speeding away
40 in the same direction with a speed of 192 km h-.
20 If the muzzle speed of the bullet is 150 m s, with
0 10 >i(s) what speed does the bullet hit the thief's car?
(a) 95 m s-! (b) 105 ms-!
(a) x, - X=50t (b) x, - X= 10t (d) 125 m s-!
(c) x -x=15t (c) 115 ms-l
(d) x, -X = 20t
90. A bus is moving with a speed of 10 m s on a
RELATIVE VELOCITY
straight road. A scooterist wishes to overtake the
bus in 100 s. If the bus is at a distance of1 km from
83. Aball Ais dropped from a building of height 45 m. the scooterist with what speed should the scooterist
Simultaneously another identical ball B is thrown
chase the bus?
up with a speed 50 ms.The relative speed of ball
Bw.r.t. ball A at any instant of time is (Take g= 10 ms) (a) 40 m s-! (b) 25 ms-!
(b) 10 ms -! (c) 10 m s-! (d) 20 ms-!
(a) 0
(c) 25 ms-! (d) 50 m s 91. Twotowns Aand Bare connected by a regular bus
service with a bus leaving in either direction every
84. A ballA is thrown vertically upwards with speed u. Tminutes. A man cycling with a speed of 20 knm h-l
At the same instant another ball B is released from
rest at height h. At time t, the speed of A relative to in the direction A to Bnotices that a bus goes past
him every 18min in the direction of his motion, and
B is
every 6 min in the opposite direction. The period T
(a) u (b) u- 2gt
of the bus service is
(c) Ju'-2gh (d) u - gt (a) 4.5 min
(c) 12min
(b) 9 min
(d) 24 min
85. Two cars A and B are running at velocities of 60
km h- and 45 km h-!. What is the relative velocity 92. A 175 m long train is traveling along a straight track
of car A with respect to car B, if both are moving with a velocity 72 km' h. A bird is flying parallel
eastward? to the train in the opposite direction with a velocity
(a) 15 km h-! (b) 45 km h-! 18 km-l h. The time taken by the bird to cross the
(c) 60 km h-l (d) 105 km h-! train is
(a) 35 s (b) 27 s
86. In question number 85, what is the relative velocity (c) l1.6s (d) 7s
of a car A with respect to car B, if car A is moving
eastward and car B is moving westward? 93. Twoparallel rail tracks run north-south. On one track
(a) 15 km h-! (b) 45 km h-! train Amoves north with a speed of 54 km h'and on
(c) 60 km h-! (d) 105 km h-l the other track train moves south with a speed of
87. On a two-lane road, car A is travelling with a speed 90 km h-, The velocity of train A with respect to train
of 36 km h'. Two cars B and C approach car A in Bis
(a) 10 m s-! (b) 15 m s-!
opposite directions with a speed of 54 km h-' each.
Ata certain instant, when the distance AB isequal to (c) 25 nm s-! (d) 40 m s-!
AC, both being 1km, Bdecides to overtake Abefore 94. In the question number 93, what is the velocity of a
Cdoes. The minimum required acceleration of car B monkey running on the roof of the train A against
to avoid an accident is
its motion with a velocity of 18 km h with respect
(a) l ms-2 (b) 1.5 ms2. tothe train A asobserved by aman standing on the
(c) 2 m s-2 (d) 3 ms-2 ground?
88. A bird is tossing (flying to and fro) between two cars (a) 5 ms! (b) 10 ms!
moving towards each other on a straight road. One (c) 15 m s (d) 20 ms!
car has speed of 27 km h-l while the other has the 95. A train A which is 120 m long is running with
speed of 18 km h-. The bird starts moving from first velocity 20 m/s while train Bwhich is 130 m long is
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running in opposite direction with velocity 30 m/s. 98. In the question number 97, the speed of the child
What is the time taken by train Bto cross the train running opposite to the direction of motion of the
A? belt is
(a) 5 s (b) 25 s (a) 4kmh! (b) 5km h!
(c) 10s (d) 100 s (c) 9 kn h (d) 13 knm h!
96. A jet airplane travelling at the speed of 500 km h 99. In the question number 97, time taken by the child
ejects its products of combustion at the speed of to go from father to mother and back to father is
(a) 10 s (b) 20 s
1500 km h- relative to the jet plane. The speed of the (c) 30 s (d) 40 s
products of combustion with respect to an observer
100. Which one of the following represents
on the ground is
displacement-time graph of two objects A and B
(a) 500 km h (b) 1000 km h! Displacement
cnt
moving with zero relative velocity?
(c) 1500 km h-! (d) 2000 km h! Displacement

97. On a long horizontally moving belt, a child runs to 4

(b
(a B
and fro with aspeed 9kmh-' (with respect to the belt)
between his father and mother located 50 m apart
on the moving belt. The belt moves with a speed of Displacenent Time Time

4 km hl. For an observer on astationary platform,

the speed of the child running in the direction of
motion of the belt is (c) (d)
(a) 4 km h-! (b) 5 km h-!
(c) 9 kmh-! (d) 13 km h-l Time Time

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 (NCERT) EXEMPLAR PROBLEMS
1
Among the four graphs, there is only one graph for (c) The acceleration is always a non-negative
which average velocity over the time interval (0, T) number.
can vanish for a suitably chosen T. Which one is it? (d) The motion has no turning points.
4. A vehicle travels half the distance L with speed v,
(a)
and the other half with speed v, then its average
(b)
speed is
(a) t y (b)
2

(c) 2vV (d) L(v +v;)

(c) (d)

5. The displacement of aparticle is given by x= (t- 2)°

where x is in metres and t in seconds. The distance
2. A lift is coming from 8th floor and is just about to
covered by the particle in first 4 seconds is
reach 4th floor. Taking ground floor as origin and (a) 4 m (b) 8 m (c) 12 m (d) 16 m
positive direction upwards for all quantities, which
one of the following is correct? 6 At a metro station, a girl walks up a stationary
(a) x<0,v<0, a>0 (b) x> 0, v<0, a<0 escalator in time t,. If she remains stationary on the
(c) x>0, v<0, a >0 (c) x>0, v>0, a <0 escalator, then the escalator take her up in time t,.
3. In one dimensional motion, instantaneous speed v The time taken by her to walk up on the moving
escalator will be
satisfies 0sv< Vo
(a) The displacement in time T must always take (a) (t tt,) (b)
non-negative values. 2
(t, -t)
(b) The displacement x in time Tsatisfies - T <x (c)
<T. (t, +t)