11th Kinematics -1D (Uniform Acceleration) Sheet-1

1. At the moment t = 0 a particle leaves the origin and moves in the positive direction of the
x-axis. Its velocity varies with time as V  V0 (1  t / ) , where V0 is the initial velocity
vector whose modulus equals V0 =10.0 cms1 :   5.0 s . Find:
(a) The x coordinate of the particle at the moments of time 6.0, 10, and 20 s;
(b) The moments of time when the particle is at the distance 10.0 cm from the origin;

2. A particle located at x = 0 at time t = 0, starts moving along the positive x-direction with a
velocity  that varies as    x . The displacement of the particle varies with time as:
(a) t1/2 (b) t 3 (c) t 2 (d) t

3. A goods train accelerating uniformly on a straight railway track, approaches an electric pole
standing on the side of track. Its engine passes the pole with velocity u and the guard's
room passes with velocity  . The middle wagon of the train passes the pole with a velocity:
u 1 2 2  u 2  2 
(a) (b) u  (c) u (d)  
2 2  2 
 
4. In a car race on straight road, car A takes a time t less than car B at the finish and passes
finishing point with a speed '  ' more than that of car B. Both the cars start from rest and
travel with constant acceleration a1 and a 2 respectively. Then ‘  ’is equal to:
a a
(a) 1 2 t
2

(b) 2a1a 2 t 2a a
(c) 1 2 t
a1  a 2

(d) a1a 2 t
5. The drivers of two trains, train A moving at a speed of 30 ms1 and another train B moving
at a speed of10 ms1 sight each other on the same track. They immediately apply brakes and
achieve a uniform retardation of 3 ms2 and 1 ms2 respectively. To avoid head-on
collision, what must be the minimum distance between the trains?
(a) 100 m (b) 200 m (c) 300 m (d) 400 m

6. A particle starts from rest sliding down a smooth inclined plane. If Sn is the distance
travelled by it from time t = n – 1 sec to t = n sec, the ratio Sn / Sn1is
2n  1 2n  1 2n 2n  1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2n  1 2n 2n  1 2n  1

7. A body covers 26, 28, 30, 32 metres in 10th , 11th , 12th and 13th seconds respectively.
The body starts
(a) From rest and moves with uniform velocity
(b) From rest and moves with uniform acceleration
(c) With an initial velocity and moves with uniform acceleration
(d) With an initial velocity and moves with non-uniform acceleration
 Paragraph for Question 8 to 9

The position of a particle on x-axis under constant acceleration is defined by the relation
x  3t 2  6t  5, are expressed in meters and seconds, respectively

8. At what time, the velocity of particle is zero

(a) 4 sec (b) 2 sec (c) 1 sec (d) none of these

9. The distance covered by particle from t = 0 tot = 4 sec is

(a) 61 m (b) 45 m (c) 96 m (d) none of these

10. As a car passes the point A on a straight road its speed is 10 m/s. The car moves with
constant acceleration a m/s2 along the road for T seconds till it reaches the point B where its
speed is v m/s. The car travels at this speed for a further 10 sec till it reaches the point C. From C
it travels for a further T seconds with constant acceleration 3a m/s2 until it reaches a speed of 20
m/s at point D.
(i) Find v
Given that the distance between A & D is 675 m find
(ii) a & T.
Paragraph for Question 11 to 13

An automobile and a truck start from rest at the same instant, with the automobile initially at
some distance behind the truck. The truck has a constant acceleration of 2.0 m/s2 . and the
automobile has an acceleration of 4.0 m/s2 . The automobile overtakes the truck after the truck
has moved 36.0 m.

11. How much time does it take for the automobile to overtake the truck:
(a) 12 sec. (b) 18 sec (c) 3 sec (d) 6 sec

12. How far was the automobile behind the truck initially:
(a) 24.8 m (b) 36 m (c) 40 m (d) 60 m

13. Speed of each vehicle at the time of overtaking are:

(a) 12 and 24 m/s (b) 20 m/s and 10 m/s
(c) 6 m/s and 12 m/s (d) 25 m/s and 30 m/s

14. A car accelerates from rest with a constant acceleration  on a straight road. After gaining
a velocity  the car moves with the same velocity for some-time. Then the car decelerated
to rest with a retardation  . If the total distance covered by the car is equal to S, the total
time taken for its motion is
 S  1 1 S      S   
    (b)   (c)     
 2    
(a) (d)
 2       

15. A train starts from rest acceleration uniformly for some time then moves with a constant
velocity for some time and finally comes to rest by uniform retardation. If s is the total
s s
displacement of the train and it travels distance during acceleration and distance away
m m
retardation
V 1 1
Pr ove max  1  
Vaverage m n

Multiple Correct Questions

16. Two particles P and Q move in a straight line AB towards each other. P starts from A
with velocity u1and an acceleration a1. Q starts from B with velocity u2 and acceleration a 2 .
They pass each other at the midpoint of AB and arrive at the other ends of AB with equal
velocities.
2(u 2  u1)
(a) They meet at midpoint at time t =
(a1  a 2 )
4(u 2  u1)(a1u 2  a 2u1)
(b) The length of path specified i.e. AB is  
(a1  a 2 )2
(c) They reach the other ends of AB with equal velocities if (u2  u1) (a1  a 2 ) = 8
(a1u2  a 2u1) .
(d) They reach the other ends of AB with equal velocities if (u2  u1) (a1  a 2 ) = 8
(a2u1  a1u2 ) .

17. If velocity of the particle is given by v = x , where x denotes the position of the particle
and initially particle was at x = 4, then which of the following are correct?
(a) At t = 2 sec, the position of the particle is at x = 9.
(b) Particle's acceleration at t = 2 sec. is 1 m/s 2 .
1
(c) Particle's acceleration is m/s2 throughout the motion.
2
(d) Particle will never go in negative direction from it's starting position
18. A particle moves such that its x coordinate is related to the time t by the relation t  x  3 ,
where x is in metre, is in second. Based on this information, match the values in
COLUMN-I (in SI units) to their respective quantities for the particles motion given in
COLUMN-II.
 Column-I Column-II
(a) 0 (p) Acceleration at t = 5s
(b) 2 (q) Average speed from t = 0 to t = 6 s
(c) 3 (r) Velocity at the point of reversal of motion
(d) 18 (s) Total distance travelled from t = 0 to t = 6s
(t) Displacement from t = 0 to t = 6s

1. (a) → (r, t); (b) → (p); (c) → (q); (c) → (s)

19. For a particle moving rectilinearly, the x varies with t as per the equation
x  5t 2  20t  10, where x is in metre and t is in second.
Column-I Column-II
(a) Average speed, in ms 1 , from t = 0 to t = 4s (p) 20

(b) Average velocity, in ms 1 , from t = 0 to t = 4s (q) 10

(c) Acceleration, in ms2 , at t = 4 s (r) Zero

(d) Speed, in ms 1 at t = 4 s (s) – 4

(t) None of these

2. (a) → (q); (b) → (r); (d) → (s) ; (d) → (p)

20. A train starts from A with uniform acceleration a1, for some distance and then goes with
uniform retardation a 2 for some more distance to come to rest at station B. The distance
between stations A and B is 4 km and the train takes (1/15)h to complete this journey.
1 1
If accelerations are (in km per minute)   x . Find the value of x.
a1 a 2
21. In a car race, car A takes 4 s less than car B at the finish and passes the finishing point with
a velocity n more than the car B. Assuming that the cars start from rest and travel with
constant accelerations a1  4ms2 and a 2  1 ms1 respectively, find the velocity of n in
ms 1
22. A cat, on seeing a rat at a distance d = 5, starts with velocity u = 5 ms 1 and moves with
acceleration  = 2.5 ms2 in order to catch it, while the rat with acceleration  starts from
rest. For what value of  will the cat overtake the rat? (in ms2 )
 Ans. Keys

1. (a) 0.24m, 0m and –4m 11. D 21. 8

(b) 1.1 Sec, 9s and 11sec
2. C 12. B 22. 5
3 D 13. A
4. D 14. A
5. 15.
6. A 16. ABC
7. B 17. ACD
8. C 18. a - r, t
b-p
c-q
d-s
9. D 19. a-q
b-r
c-s
d-p
10. 12.5 m/s 20. 2
T =20 sec
1
a = m / s2
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