Sree Ayyappa Public School

Affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi

Sector V, Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand - 827006

SUMMER ASSIGNMENT
Session 2025 – 2026

STD – IX SUB – PHYSICS

SECTION – A

1. Plot a graph between the distance and time of a car moving with contant speed in a straight line.
2. Calculate the distance and displacement of a car as it travels along a circular track of radius 28m
and completes.
a. ¼ round of circular track
b. ¾ round of circular track
c. 10 complete round of circular track.
3. Mathematically derive Newton's third equation of motion.
4. Under what condition is the magnitude of velocity of an object equal to its average velocity?
5. Differentiate between: a. Speed and velocity
b. Distance and displacement.
6.
Velocity (in m/s) 10 20 30 40 50
Time (in s) 1 2 3 4 5

a) What kind of motion, the given V- T graph shows?

b) Find the distance covered by the body between 2 to 4 seconds.
7. Revive the key concepts of the chapter "Motion".
8. Define and explain uniform circular motion along with a diagram.
9. How will the equation of motion moving with a constant velocity will change?
10. Practice the numericals given in NCERT book related to chapter 'motion' along with the
numericals given in CW notebook.
11. Visit any nearby park of your locality and explain the various types of motion that you have
experienced inside the park. (Mention any three)
12. Rahul while driving to school computers the average speed for his trip to be 20 km/h. On his
return trip along the same route, there is less traffic and the average speed is 40 km/h. What is
the average speed for Rahul’s trip?
13. An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 42250 km. Calculate its speed if it
takes 24 hours to revolve around the earth
14. The speed time graphs of two cars are represented by P and Q as shown below: (in m/s)

i. Find the difference in the distance travelled by the two cars (in m) after 4 sec.
ii. Do they over more with the same speed? If so when?
iii. What type of motion car P and Q are undergoing?

15. Define second equation of motion, s=ut+ ½ at2 graphically, where the symbols have their usual
meanings.
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16. A car accelerates uniformly form 36 km/h to 54 km/h in 10 seconds. Find

i. the acceleration.
ii. the displacement of the car during this interval of time.
17. The brakes applied to a car produce an acceleration of 6 m/s2 in the opposite direction of the
motion. If the car takes 2s to stop after the application of brakes, calculate the distance it travels
during this time.
18. An object has moved through a distance can it have zero displacement? If yes, support your
answer with an example.
19. 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 sec. from his initial position?
20. When will you say a body is in –
i. Uniform acceleration?
ii. Non uniform acceleration?
21. What you can say about the motion of an object if its velocity time graph is a straight line
parallel to the time axis?
22. What is the relationship between angular velocity and linear velocity in circular motion, explain?
23. A stone is thrown in a vertically upward direction with a velocity of 5 m/s. If the acceleration of
the stone during its motion is 10 m/s2 in the downward direction. What will be the height
attained by the stone and how much time will it take to reach there?
24. From a station ‘X’ a train starts form rest and attains a speed of 54 km/h in 10 sec. They by
applying brakes negative acceleration of 2.5 m/s2 is produced and it stops at a station ‘Y’ in 6 s.
Find distance between stations ‘X’ and ‘Y’.
25. The speedometer reading of a car are shown below. Find the acceleration of the car and its
displacement.

Time Speedometer
9:25 am 36 km/h
9:45 am 72 km/h

Short Answer questions:-

26. Is uniform circular motion accelerated motion? Justify your answer.
27. Name one physical quantity which remains constant in uniform circular motion.
28. What does the odometer of an automobile measure?
29. What is the quantity, which is measured by the area occupied below the velocity time graph?
Describe the motion represented by the following displacement time graphs.

s s s

t t t
(i) (ii) (iii)
30. A person rides a motor bike at the speed of 30 m/s. The person applies the brake and the
velocity of motor bike comes down to 20 m/s in 3s. What is the magnitude of acceleration of
motor bike?
31. Define force and write what are the types of force?
32. Define acceleration and write its S.I. Unit.
33. A particle is moving with a uniform speed. Is it necessary that it is moving along a straight line?
34. Is it correct to say that earth moves around the sun with constant velocity? Justify your answer.
35. What is meant by uniform circular motion?
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36. Give one example for each of the type of motion, when:
a. acceleration is in the direction of motion.
b. acceleration is against the direction of motion.
37. Define average speed.
38. A car attains 54 km/h in 20 s after it starts from rest.
Find the acceleration of the car if it is constant.
39. Convert speed of –
i. 18 km/h into m/s. ii. 144 km/h into m/s.
40. When do distance and displacement of a moving object have the same magnitude?
41. Complete the given table:

SI Units
Quantity Units Symbol
Distance Displacement m
Speed and velocity Meter per second m/s2

42. Distinguish between uniform and non – uniform velocity.

43. Derive the relation – ‘v=u + at’.
44. A student ties a stone to a thread of length 1 m and starts swinging it in a circular motion. With
what speed the stone is moving?
45. A car accelerates uniformly form 18 km/h to 36 km/h in 5 minutes. Find the acceleration of the
car.
SECTION – B

1. A particle is moving in a circular path of radius 7 km. What is the displacement after half a
circle?
2. What is the numerical ratio of displacement to distance for moving object?
3. A body is thrown vertically upward with velocity u. What is the greatest height to which it will
rise is?
4. In 10 mins, a car whose speed is 35 km/hr travels a distance of ________.
5. A car travels 3 Km of distance in 10 mins to reach the destination and on the return journey, the
car travels the same distance in 5 mins. What is the average speed of the car during entire
journey?
6. Define speedometer?
7. Write name of motion of electron.
8. Area under a v-t graph represents a physical quantity. Which has unit?
9. Is it possible that the train in which you are sitting appears to move while it is at rest?
10. What is the C.G.S. unit of length?
11. What is S.I. unit of length?
12. If the acceleration of the particle is constant in magnitude but not direction, then what type of
path does the particle follow?
13. What does the path of an object look like when it is in uniform motion?
14. Does the motion of seconds hand of watch represent uniform velocity or uniform speed?
15. Define angular acceleration.
16. Define angular velocity.
17. What do you meant by angular displacement?
18. What do you mean by linear displacement?
19. When will you say a body is in
(i) uniform motion
(ii) non uniform motion?
20. What is the nature of distance-time graphs for uniform and non uniform motions?
21. Under what conditions will the distance and displacement have same magnitude?
22. What determines the directions of motions of an object velocity and accelerations?
23. Give an example of a body which covers a certain distance, but its displacement is zero.
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24. Differentiate between distance and displacement.

25. What is the difference between uniform motion and in a straight line and circular motions?
26. Differentiate between speed and velocity.
27. What do you understand by the term acceleration? When is it positive and when is it negative?
28. Give one example for each of the type of motions when:
(i) acceleration is in the direction of motion.
(ii) acceleration is against the directions of motion.
(iii) acceleration is uniform.

29. Name the physical quantities denoted by:

(i) The slope of the distance-time graph.
(ii) The area under velocity-time graph.
(iii) The slope of velocity-time graph.

30. Draw the distance-time graphs for the following situations:

(i) when a body is stationary.
(ii) when a body is moving with uniform speed.
(iii) when a body is moving with non-uniform speed.

31. Velocity-time graphs for the motion of an object in a straight path is a straight line parallel to the
time axis.

(i) Identify the nature of motion of the body.

(ii) Find the acceleration of the body.
(iii) Draw the shape of distance-time graph for this type of motion.

32. An aeroplane lands 216 km/hr and stops after covering a runway of 2 km. calculate the
acceleration and time in which it comes to rest.

33. A truck running at 60 km/hr is brought to rest over a distance of 25 m. Calculate the retardation
and time for which brakes are applied.

34. An object starting from rest travels 20 m in first 2 sec and 10 m in next 4 sec. What will be the
velocity after 7 sec from the start?

35. Using following data, draw time-displacement graph for a moving object.

Time (s) 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Displacement (m) 0 2 4 4 4 6 4 2 0

Use this graph to find average velocity for first 4 sec, for next 2 sec and for last 1 sec.

36. An object is dropped from rest at a height of 150m and simultaneously another object is dropped
from rest at a height of 100m with. The difference in their heights after 2 sec, both the object
drop with same acceleration? How does the difference in heights vary with time?

37. Two stones are thrown vertically upwards simultaneously with their initial velocities u₁ and u₂
respectively. Prove that the heights reached by them would be in the ratio of u₁² : u₂².
(Take upward = +ve and downward = -ve)
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38. A motorcyclist drives from A to B with a uniform speed of 30 km/hr and returns back with speed
of 20 km/hr. Find its average speed.

39. An electron moving with a velocity of 5×10⁴ m/sec enters into a uniform electric field and
acquires a uniform acceleration of 10¹² m/sec² in the direction of its initial motion.
(i) Calculate the time in which the electron would acquire a velocity double of its initial velocity.
(ii) How much distance the electron would cover in this time?

40. Obtain a relation for distance travelled by an object moving with a uniform acceleration in the
interval between 4th and 7th seconds.

41. An object is sliding down an inclined plane. The velocity changes at a uniform rate from 10 cm/s
to 15 cm/s in two seconds. What is its acceleration?

42. Derive the equation of motion mathematically.

(i) v = u + at
(ii) s = ut + ½at²
(iii) v² = u² + 2as

43. The driver of train A travelling at 54 km/h applies the brakes and retards the train uniformly. The
train stops in 5s. Another train B is travelling on parallel track with a speed of 36 km/h. It also
applies brakes and stops in 10s. Plot speed-time graph for both the trains on the same paper.
Which of the trains travelled farther after the brakes were applied?

44. A stone is dropped from a height of 20m.

(i) How long will it take to reach the ground?
(ii) What will be its speed when it hits the ground? (Take g = 10 m/s²)

45. A car accelerates uniformly from rest to a speed of 20 m/s in 10s. The car is then travelling at
this speed of 5s. After this, the driver applies the brakes and the car decelerates uniformly and
comes to stop in 4 sec. Calculate :

(a) The acceleration of the car during the acceleration phase.

(b) The acceleration of the car during deceleration phase.
(c) The total distance travelled by the car from rest to complete stop.

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