Worksheet-3

MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE

 1 MARK QUESTIONS
1. Under what condition will the distance and displacement of moving object will have the same magnitude?
2. A bullet fired vertically upwards falls at the same place after sometime. What is the displacement of the bullet?
3. A particle is moving along a circular track of radius r. What is the distance traversed by particle in half
revolution? What is its displacement?
4. What does the speedometer of a car measure average speed or instantaneous speed?
5. A ball hits a wall with a velocity of 30m/s and rebounces with the same velocity. What is the change in its
velocity?
6. A body travels with uniform acceleration a1, for time t1 and with uniform acceleration a2, for time t2. What is the
average acceleration?
7. A ball is thrown straight up. What is its velocity and acceleration at the top?
8. Can a body have zero velocity and still be accelerating. If yes then give reason.
9. Under what condition is the average velocity equal to the instantaneous velocity?

 2 & 3 MARKS QUESTIONS

10. State in the following cases, whether the motion is one, two or three-dimensional:
(i) a kite flying on a windy day
(ii) a speeding car on a long straight highway
(iii) a carom coin rebounding from the side of the board
(iv) a planet revolving around its star?
11. A car starting from rest, accelerates at the rate ‘f’ through a distance s, then continues at constant speed for
sometime ‘t’ and then decelerated at the rate ‘f/2’ to come to rest. If the total distance is 5s, then prove that: S
= ½ f t2.
12. A ball is released from the top of a tower of height ‘h’ meters. It takes T seconds to reach the ground. What is
the position of the ball in T/3 seconds? Ans. 8h/9, above the ground.
13. Two balls of different masses (one lighter and other heavier) are thrown vertically upward with same initial
speed. Which one will rise to the greater height? Which one will passes through the point of projection in their
downward direction with the greater speed?

 NUMERICALS
14. A particle moves along a circular path of radius ‘r’. It starts from point A and moves anticlockwise. Find the
distance travelled by the particle as it
(i) moves from A to B
(ii) moves from A to C
(iii) moves from A to D
(iv) complete one revolution. Also find the magnitude of displacement in each case.
Ans. (i) πr/2, √2r (ii) πr, 2r (iii) 3πr/2, √2r (iv) 2πr, 0
15. On a 60km track, a train travels the first 30km with a uniform speed of 30km/h. How fast must the train travel
the next 30km so as to average 40km/h for the entire trip? Ans. 60km/h
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16. A jet plane starts from rest with one acceleration of 3m/s and makes a run for 35s before taking off. What is
the min. length of the runway and what is the velocity of the jet at takeoff? Ans. 1837.5, 105m/s
17. On a foggy day two drivers spot each other when they are just 80m apart. They are travelling at 72km/h and
60km/h respectively. Both of them applied brakes retarding their cars at the rate of 5m/s. Determines whether
they avert collision or not. Ans. Total distance 67.78m

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18. A body covers one third of its journey with speed ‘u’, next third with speed ‘v’ and the last third with speed ‘w’.
Calculate the average speed of the body during the entire journey.
3uvw
Ans.
uv  vw  uw
19. A body travelling along a straight line travelled one-half of the total distance with a velocity vo. The remaining
part of the distance was covered with a velocity v1, for half the time and with velocity v2 for the other half of
time. Find the mean velocity averaged over the whole time of motion.
2vo(v1  v 2)
Ans.
v1  v 2  2vo
20. A car travels along a straight line for the first half time with speed 50km/h and the second half time with speed
60km/h. Find the average speed of the car. Ans. 55km/h
21. A motor car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly for 10s to a speed of 20m/s. It then runs at a constant
speed and it finally brought to rest in 40m with a constant acceleration. Total distance covered is 640m. Find
the value of acceleration, retardation and total time taken. Ans. 2ms-2, 5ms-2, 39s
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22. A body covers 12m in 2 second and 20m in 4 second. How much distance will it covers in 4 seconds after the
5th second? Ans. 136m
23. A burglar’s car had a start with an accelerationo f 2m/s2. A police vigilant party came after 5 seconds and
continued to chase the burglar’s car with a uniform velocity of 20m/s. Find the time in which the police van
overtakes the burglar’s car. Ans. 5 s
24. A ball thrown vertically upwards with a speed of 19.6m/s from the top of a tower returns to the earth in 6s. Find
the height of the tower? Ans. 58.8m
25. A ball thrown vertically upwards with a speed of 19.6m/s from the top of a multistoried building. The height of
the point from where the ball is thrown is 25m from the ground. (i) How high will the ball rise and (ii) how long
will it be, before hits the ground? Ans. 20m, 5s
26. A ball thrown up is caught by the thrower after 4s. How high did it go and with what velocity was it thrown?
How far was it below the highest point 3s after it was thrown? Ans. 19.6m/s, 19.6m, 4.9
27. A balloon is ascending at the rate of 9.8m/s at a height of 39.2m above the ground when a food packet is
dropped from the balloon. After how much time and with what velocity does it reach the ground?
Ans. 4s, 29.4m/s
28. A food packet is released from a helicopter which is rising steadily at 2m/s. After 2seconds (i) what is the
velocity of the packet (ii) how far is it below the helicopter? Ans. 17.6m/s, 19.6m
29. a parachutist bails out from an airplane and after dropping through a distance of 40m, he opens parachute and
decelerates at 2m/s2. If he reaches the ground with a speed of 2m/s, how long is he in the air? At what height
did he bail out from the plane? Ans. 15.86s, 235m
30. Two balls are thrown simultaneously, a vertically upward with a speed of 20m/s from the ground and B is
vertically downwards from a height of 40m with the same speed and along same line of motion. At what points
do the two balls collide? g = 10 m/s2 . Ans. 1s, 15m
31. A stone falls from a cliff and travels 24.5m in the last second before it reaches the ground at the foot of the cliff.
Find the height of the cliff. Ans. 44.1m

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