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MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE
Introduction: 7. The three intial and final positions of a man on
1. A branch of physics dealing with motion without the x-axis are given as
considering its causes is known as (i) (–3 m, 7 m) (ii) (7 m, – 3 m)
(A) statics (B) dynamics (iii) (–7 m, 3m)
(C) kinematics (D) hydrodynamics Which pair gives the negative displacement?
Position, Path Length and Displacement : (A) (i) (B) (ii) (C) (iii) (D) (i) and (iii)
2. Which of the following statements is incorrect? Average Velocity and Average Speed :
(A) Path length is a scalar quantity whereas 8. Which of the following statements are incorrect?
displacement is a vector quantity (i) Average velocity is path length divided by the
(B) The magnitude of displacement is always time interval.
equal to the path length traversed by an (ii) In general, speed is greater than the
object over a given time interval magnitude of the velocity.
(C) The displacement depends only on the end (iii) A particle moving in a gien direction with a
points whereas path length depends on the non-zero velocity can have zero speed.
actual path followed.
(iv) The magnitude of a average velocity is the
(D) The path olength is always positive whereas average speed.
displacement can be positive, negative and
zero. (A) (ii) and (iii) (B) (ii) and (iv)
3. The numerical ratio of distance to displacement (C) (i), (iii) and (iv) (D) All four
is 9. A car is moving along a straight line OP as shown
(A) always equal to one in the figure. It moves from O to P in 18 s and
(B) always less than one returns from P to Q in 6 s. Which of the following
statements is not correct regarding the motion
(C) always greater than one
of the car?
(D) equal to or more than one.
O Q P
4. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
(A) Displacement is independent of the choice 0m 240 m 360 m
of origin of the axis. (A) The average speed of the car in going from
(B) Displacement may or may not be equal to O to P and come back to Q is 20 m s–1.
the distance travelled. (B) The average velocity of the car in going from
(C) When a particle returns to its starting point, O to P and come back to Q is 10 m s–1.
its displacement is not zero. (C) The average speed of the car in going from
(D) Displacement does not tell the nature of the O to P and come back to O is 20 m s–1.
actual motion of a particle between the (D) The average velocity of the car in going from
points. O to P and come back to O is 20 m s–1.
5. If a man goes 10 m toward north and 20 m toward 10. The area under velocity-time graph for a particle
east, then his displacement is in a given interval of time represents
(A) 22.5 m (B) 25 m (A) velocity (B) acceleration
(C) 25.5 m (D) 30 m (C) work done (D) displacement
6. A drunkard is walking along a straight road. He 11. A cyclist moving on a circular track of radius 40
takes 5 steps forward and 3 steps backward and m completes half a revolution in 40 s. Its average
so on. Each step is 1 m long and takes 1 s. There velocity is
is a pit on the road 11 m away from the starting
(A) zero (B) 4 m s 1
point. The drunkard will fall into the pit after
(A) 21 s (B) 29 s (C) 31 s (D) 37 s (C) 2 m s 1 (D) 8 m s 1
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12. The position of an object moving along x-axis 20. The motion of a particle is described by the
given by x = a + bt2, where a = 8.5 m and b = 2.5 equation x = at + bt2, where a = 15 cm s–1 and
–2
m s and t is measured in seconds. The average b = 3 cm s–2. Its instantaneous velocity at t = 3 s
velocity of the object between t = 2 s and t = 4 is will be
(A) 5 m s 1 (B) 10 m s 1 (A) 33 cm s–1 (B) 18 cm s–1
–1
(C) 16 cm s (D) 32 cm s–1
(C) 15 m s 1 (D) 20 m s 1
21. The motion of a particle is described by
13. Which of the following graphs represents the
position-time graph of a particle moving with x x 0 1 e kt ; t 0, x 0 0, k 0 . with what
negative velocity? velocity does the particle start?
x0 k
(A) (B) x 0k (C) (D) 2x 0 k
(A) (B) k x 0
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O t
(iv)
P A (A) (i) and (ii) (B) (ii) and (iii)
B (C) (i), (ii) and (iii) (D) All four
O
(A) A lives closer to the school than B. Acceleration :
(B) A starts from the school earlier than B. 32. The displacement of a body is given to be
(C) A walks faster than B. proportional to the cube of time elapsed. The
(D) A and B reach home at the same time. magnitude of the acceleration of the body is
28. The displacement-time graph of a moving
(A) increasing with time
particole is as shown in the f igure. The
instantaneous velocity of the particle is negative (B) decreasing with time
at the point (C) constant but not zero
(D) zero.
33. Match the Column I with Column II.
Column I Column II
(Physical quantity) (Formula)
(A) Instantaneous velocity, v= (p) x
t
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37. Match the Column I with Column II. 42. A particle starts from point A moves along a
C olumn I Column II straight line path with an acceleration given by
(Graph) (Characteristic) a = p – qx where p, q are constants and x is
(A) (p) Has v >0 and a < 0
Throughout. distance from point A. The particle stops at point
B. the maximum velocity of the particle is
p p q q
(B) (q) Hax x > 0 throughout and has a (A) (B) (C) (D)
point with v = 0 and a point with q q p p
a = 0.
43. A one-dimensional motion is described by x = t –
sin t, then
(C) (r) Has a point with zero
displacement for t > 0.
(A) x t 0 for all t 0
t1 t 2 t1 t 2 (C) (D)
(C) t t (D) t t
2 3 2 3
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46. The velocity-time graph of a particle in one- 49. The given acceleration time graph represents
dimensional motio is shown in the figure. Which which of the following physical situations?
of the following formulae is correct for describing
the motio of the particle over the time interval t1
to t2?
(A) (B)
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54. Which of the following statements is not correct? 62. A girl standing on a stationary lift (open from
(A) The zero velocity of a body at any instant above) throws a ball upwards with initial speed
does not necessarily imply zero acceleration 50 m s–1. The time taken by the ball to return to
at that instant. her hands is (Take g = 10 m s–2)
(B) The kinematic equation of motions are true (A) 5 s (B) 10 s (C) 15 s (D) 20 s
only for motion in which the magnitude and 63. In the question number 62, if the lift starts moving
the direction of acceleration are constants up with a uniform speed of 5 m s–1 and the girl
during the course of motion again throws the ball up with the same speed,
(C) The sign of acceleration tells us whether the how long does the ball take to return to her hands?
particle’s speed is increasing or decreasing. (A) 5 s (B) 10 s (C) 15 s (D) 20 s
(D) All of these 64. It is a common observation that rain clouds can
55. The distances covered by a freely falling body i be at about 1 km altitude above the ground. If a
its first, second, third, .....nth seconds of its motion rain drop falls from such a height freely under
gravity, then what will be its speed in km h–1?
(A) forms and arithmetic progression
(A) 510 (B) 610 (C) 710 (D) 910
(B) forms a geometric progression 65. A man is standing o top of a building 100 m high.
(C) do not form any well defined series He throws two balls vertically upwards, on at t =
(D) form a series correspoding to the difference 0 and other after a time interval (less than 2 s).
of square root of the successive natural The later ball is thrown at a velocity of half the
numbers. first. The vertical gap between first and second
56. A body covers 20 m, 22 m, 24 m, in 8th, 9th and ball is 15 m at t = 2 s. The gap is found to remain
10th seconds respectively. The body starts constant. The velocities with which the balls were
(A) from rest and moves with uniform velocity thrown are (Take g = 10 m s–2)
(B) f rom rest and mov es with unif orm (A) 20 m s–1, 10 m s –1
acceleration (B) 10 m s–1, 5 m s–1
(C) with an initial velocity and moves with uniform (C) 16 m s–1, 8 m s–1
acceleration (D) 30 m s–1, 15 m s–1
(D) with an initial velocity and moves with uniform 66. A body sliding on a smooth inclined plane requires
velocity. 4 seconds to reach the bottom, starting from rest
57. A player throws a ball vertically upwards with at the top. How much time does it take to cover
velocity u. At highest point, one-fourth the distance starting from rest at the
(A) both the velocity and acceleration of the ball top?
are zero (A) 1 s (B) 4 s (C) 2 s (D) 16 s
(B) the velocity of the ball is u but its acceleration 67. A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity
is zero of 20 m s–1 from the top of a multistorey building
of 25 m high. How high will the ball rise?
(C) the velocity of the ball is zero but its
(Take g = 10 m s–2)
acceleration is g.
(A) 10 m (B) 15 m (C) 20 m (D) 25 m
(D) the velocity of the ball is u but its acceleration is g.
68. In the question number 67, the time taken by the
58. A car moving along a straight road with speed of ball to reach the ground is
144 km h–1 is brought to a stop within a distance (A) 2 s (B) 3 s (C) 5 s (D) 7 s
of 200 m. How long does it take for the car to
69. Two trains A and B each of length 400 m are
stop?
moving on two parallel tracks with a uniform
(A) 5s (B) 10 s (C) 15 s (D) 20 s speed 72 km h–1 in the same direction with A
59. An auto travelling along a straight road increases ahead of B. The driver of B decides to overtake
its speed from 30.0 m s–1 to 50.0 m s–1 in a A and accelerates by 1 m s–2. If after 50 s, the
distance of 180 m. If the acceleration is constant, guard of B just brushes past A, what was the
how much time elapses while the auto moves original distance between them?
this distance? (A) 750 m (B) 1000 m
(A) 6.0 s (B) 4.5 s (C) 3.6 s (D) 7.0 s (C) 1250 m (D) 2250 m
60. A body falling freely under gravity passes two 70. The velocity of a particle at an instant is
points 30 m apart in 1 s. From what point above 10 m s–1. After 3 s its velocity will become
the upper point it began to fall ? (Take g = 9.8 16 m s–1. The velocity at 2 s, before the given
m s–2). instant will be
(A) 32.1 m (B) 16.0 m (A) 6 m s–1 (B) 4 m s–1
(C) 8.6 m (D) 4.0 m (C) 2 m s–1 (D) 1 m s–1
61. A player throws a ball upwards with an initial 71. A body covers a distance of 4 m in 3rd second
speed of 30 m s–1. How long does the ball take and 12 m in 5th second. If the motion is uniformly
to return to the player’s hands? (Take g = 10 accelerated, how far will it travel in the next 3
m s–2) seconds?
(A) 3 s (B) 6 s (C) 9 s (D) 12 s (A) 10 m (B) 30 m (C) 40 m (D) 60 m
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72. Stopping distance of a moving vehicle is directly 80. A bullet fired into a wooden block loses half of its
proportional to velocity after penetrating 40 cm. It comes to rest
(A) square of the initial velocity after penetrating a further distance of
(B) square of the initial acceleration 22 40
(C) the intial velocity (A) cm (B) cm
(D) the initial acceleration 3 3
73. A car moving with a speed of 50 km h–1 can be 20 22
stopped by applying brakes after moving atleast (C) cm (D) cm
3 5
6 m. If the same car is moving at a speed of 100 81. A body moving with some initial velocity and
km h–1 the minimum stopping distance is having uniform acceleration attains a final velocity
(A) 6 m (B) 12 m (C) 18 m (D) 24 m v m/s after travelling x m. If its final velocity is
74. An object falling through a fluid is observed to
have acceleration given by a = g – bv where g = v 180 7x , find the acceleration of the body..
gravitational acceleration and b is constant. After (A) – 3.5 m/s2 (B) –7 m/s2
a long time of release, it is observed to fall with (C) –15 m/s2 (D)–30 m/s2
constant speed. The value of constant speed is 82. Two stones are thrown up simultaneously ffrom
g b the edge of a cliff 200 m high with initial speeds
(A) (B) g (C) bg (D) b of 15 m s–1 and 30 m s–1 respectively. The time
b variation of the relative position of the second
75. A particle is released from rest from a tower of stone with respect to the first is shown in the
height 3h. The ratio of the intervals of time to figure. The equation of the linear part is
cover three equal heights h is
(A) t1 : t2 : t3 = 3 : 2 : 1
(B) t1 :t 2 : t 3 1 :
2 1 : 3 2
(C) t1 :t 2 : t 3 3 : 2 : 1
(D) t1 :t 2 : t 3 1 : 2 1 : 3 2
76. A stone is dropped from the top of a tall cliff and
n seconds later another stone is thrown vertically
downwards with a velocity u. Then the second (A) x2 – x1 = 50t (B) x2 – x1 =10t
stone overtakes the first, below the top of the (C) x 2
– x 2
= 15t (D) x2 – x1 =20t
cliff at a distance given by Relative Velocity:
2 2 83. A ball A is dropped from a building of height 45
gn u m. Simultaneously another identical ball B is
n u n gn
g 2
g 2
thrown up with a speed 50 m s–1. The relative
speed of ball B w.r.t. ball A at any instant of time is
(A) 2 u gn (B) 2 u gn
(Take g = 10 m s–2)
(A) 0 (B) 10 m s–1
–1
2 2 (C) 25 m s (D) 50 m s–1
u 84. A ball A is thrown vertically upwards with speed
n gn
g 2 g u gn u. At the same instant another ball B is released
from rest at height h. At time t, the speed of A
(C) 2 u (D) 5 u relative to B is
2 gn 2 gn (A) u (B) u – 2 gt
77. A motorcycle and a car start from rest from the (C) u 2gh
2
(D) u gt
same place at the same time and travel in the
same direction. The motorcycle accelerates at 85. Two cars A and B are running at velocities of 60
–1 –1
–2
1.0 m s up to a speed of 36 km h and the car–1 km h and 45 km h . What is the relative velocity
at 0.5 m s–2 up to a speed of 54 km h–1. The time of car A with respect to car B, if both are moving
at which the car would overtake the motorcycle eastward?
is (A) 15 km h–1 (B) 45 km h–1
–1
(A) 20 s (B) 25 s (C) 30 s (D) 35 s (C) 60 km h (D) 105 km h–1
78. A body initially at rest is moving with uniform 86. In question number 85, what is the relative
acceleration a. Its velocity after n seconds is v. velocity of a car A with respect to car B, if car A is
The displacement of the body is last 2 s is moving eastward and car B is moving westward?
(A) 15 km h–1 (B) 45 km h–1
2v n 1 v n 1 (C) 60 km h–1 (D) 105 km h–1
(A) (B) 87. On a two-lane road, car A is travelling with a
n n speed of 36 km h–1. Two cars B and C approach
v n 1 2v n 1 car A is opposite directions with a speed of 54
(C) (D) km h–1 each. At a certain instant, when the
n n distance AB is equal to AC, both being 1 km, B
79. A body A starts from rest with an acceleration a1.
After 2 seconds, another body B starts from rest decides to overtake A before C does. The
with an acceleration a2. If they travel equal minimum required acceleration of car B to avoid
th
distances in the 5 second, after the start of A, an accident is
then the ratio a1 : a2 is equal to (A) 1 m s–2 (B) 1.5 m s–2
–2
(A) 5 : 9 (B) 5 : 7 (C) 9 : 5 (D) 9 : 7 (C) 2 m s (D) 3 m s–2
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88. A bird is tossing (flying to and fro) between two with respect to the train A as observed by a man
cars movig towards each other on a straight road. standing on the ground?
One car has speed of 27 km h–1 while the other (A) 5 m s–1 (B) 10 m s–1
has the speed of 18 km h–1. The bird starts (C) 15 m s–1 (D) 20 m s–1
moving from first car towards the other and is 95. A train A which is 120 m long is running with
moving with the speed of 36 km h–1 when the velocity 20 m/s while train B which is 130 m long
two cars were separated by 36 km. The total is running in opposite direction with velocity 30
distance covered by the bird is m/s. What is the time taken by train B to cross
(A) 28.8 km (B) 38.8 km the train A ?
(C) 48.8 km (D) 58.8 km (A) 5 s (B) 25 s
89. A police van moving on a highway with a speed (C) 10 s (D) 100 s
of 30 km h–1 fires a bullet at a thief’s car speeding 96. A jet airplane travelling at the speed of 500 km
away in the same direction with a speed of 192 h–1 ejects its products of combustion at the
km h–1. If the muzzle speed of the bullet is 150 m speed of 1500 km h–1 relative to the jet plane.
s–1, with what speed does the bullet hit the thief’s The speed of the products of combustion with
car? respect to an observer on the ground is
(A) 95 m s–1 (B) 105 m s–1 (A) 500 km h–1 (B) 1000 km h–1
(C) 115 m s–1 (D) 125 m s–1 (C) 1500 km h–1 (D) 2000 km h–1
90. A bus is moving with a speed of 10 m s–1 on a 97. On a long horizontally moving belt,a child runs to
straight road. A scooterist wishes to overtake the and fro with a speed 9 km h–1(with respect to the
bus in 100 s. If the bus is at a distance of 1 km belt) between his father and mother located 50
from the scooterist with what speed should the m apart on the moving belt. The belt moves with
scooterist chase the bus? a speed of 4 km h–1. For an observer on a
(A) 40 m s–1 (B) 25 m s–1 stationary platform, the speed of the child running
–1
(C) 10 m s (D) 20 m s–1 in the direction of motion of the belt is
91. Two towns A and B are connected by a regular (A) 4 km h–1 (B) 5 km h–1
bus service with a bus leaving in either direction (C) 9 km h–1 (D) 13 km h–1
every T minutes. A man cycling with a speed of 98. In the question number 97, the speed of the child
20 km h–1 in the direction A to B notices that a running opposite to the direction of motion of the
bus goes past him every 18 min in the direction belt is
of his motion, and every 6 min in the opposite (A) 4 km h–1 (B) 5 km h–1
direction. The time period T of the bus service is (C) 9 km h–1 (D) 13 km h–1
(A) 4.5 min (B) 9 min 99. In the question number 97, time taken by the child
(C) 12 min (D) 24 min to go from father to mother and back to father is
92. A 175 m long train is travelling along a straight (A) 10 s (B) 20 s (C) 30 s (D) 40 s
track with a velocity 72 km –1 h. A bird is flying 100. W hich one of the f ollowing represents
parallel to the train in the opposite direction with displacement-time graph of two objects A and B
a velocity 18 km–1 h.The time taken by the bird to movig with zero relative velocity?
cross the train is
(A) 35 s (B) 27 s (C) 11.6 s (D) 7 s Displacement
Displacement
A
93. Two parallel rail tracks run north-south. On one A
B
track train A moves north with a speed of 54 km (A) B (B)
h–1 and on the other track train B moves south
with a speed of 90 km h–1. The velocity of train A Time
with respect to train B is Time
(A) 10 m s–1 (B) 15 m s–1
Displacement
Displacement
ANSWER KEYS
1. (C) 2. (B) 3. (D) 4. (C) 5. (A) 6. (B) 7. (B) 8. (C) 9. (D)
10. (D) 11. (C) 12. (C) 13. (B) 14. (C) 15. (B) 16. (C) 17. (B) 18. (B)
19. (B) 20. (A) 21. (B) 22. (D) 23. (B) 24. (A) 25. (D) 26. (A) 27. (C)
28. (C) 29. (A) 30. (C) 31. (D) 32. (A) 33. (C) 34. (A) 35. (C) 36. (D)
37. (D) 38. (D) 39. (A) 40. (A) 41. (D) 42. (B) 43. (A) 44. (C) 45. (A)
46. (D) 47. (C) 48. (B) 49. (A) 50. (D) 51. (A) 52. (B) 53. (C) 54. (C)
55. (A) 56. (C) 57. (C) 58. (B) 59. (B) 60. (A) 61. (B) 62. (B) 63. (B)
64. (A) 65. (A) 66. (C) 67. (C) 68. (C) 69. (C) 70. (A) 71. (D) 72. (A)
73. (D) 74. (A) 75. (D) 76. (A) 77. (D) 78. (A) 79. (A) 80. (B) 81. (A)
82. (C) 83. (D) 84. (A) 85. (A) 86. (D) 87. (A) 88. (A) 89. (B) 90. (D)
91. (B) 92. (D) 93. (D) 94. (B) 95. (A) 96. (B) 97. (D) 98. (B) 99. (D)
100. (B)
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