7.

A body is released from rest at a certain height

above the ground. If the body strikes the ground
with a velocity of 60m/s, calculate the
LITTLE SISTER’S OF ST. FRANCIS
ST. PADRE PIO GIRL'S SECONDARY SCHOOL 8. A car accelerates from a speed of 80m/s in 1
PHYSICS FORM TWO HOME minute. It then moves with this speed for 20
PACKAGE, JUNE 2024 seconds and finally decelerates uniformly to stop
after another 2 minutes. Draw the velocity – time
MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE graph to represent motion of the car and
calculate:-
1. A body starts from rest and a) Deceleration of the car
accelerates at b) The total distance travelled by the
2m/s2 for 5 seconds. Calculate:- car
a) Its final velocity
b) The distance it moves 9. Two cars A and B are moving at the same time
along a straight line with uniform accelerations
5m/s2 and 3m/s2 respectively. If A is 60km
2. A baseball is thrown vertically
behind B, after how long will car A overtake car
upwards with a velocity of 20m/s.
B?
Find the:-
a) Maximum height it reached
10. An object is initially moving at 15m/s to the
b) The time taken to reach the
right. Eight seconds later it is moving at 5m/s to
maximum height
the left. During those eight seconds, what was the
object’s acceleration?
3. A body covers a distance of 480m in
6 seconds. Calculate its average
11. A car brakes and slows down from 20m/s to
speed.
5m/s in 3 seconds. What is the vehicle’s
acceleration?
4. A car accelerates from 20m/s to
100m/s in 2s. What is the
12. A car starts from rest and is accelerated
acceleration?
uniformly at a rate of 4m/s2 for 5 seconds. It
maintains a constant speed for 20 seconds. The
5. A car with a velocity of 90km/h is brakes are then applied and the car is brought to
uniformly retarded and brought to rest in the next 3s. Find:-
rest after 10 seconds. Calculate its
a) The maximum speed attained
acceleration.
b) The total distance covered.
6. A body moving with a velocity of
13. A body is projected upward with a velocity
30m/s is accelerated uniformly to a
of 20m/s and returned to the ground and at the
velocity of
same position after 8s.
50m/s in 5 seconds. Calculate:-
a) Sketch a graph of velocity against time for
a) The acceleration of the body
the motion
b) The distance travelled by the
b) From your graph, determine the distance
body
travelled and the total displacement.

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 18. A car moves with uniform velocity of 12m/s
14. Amina’s car started from rest for 6 seconds. After this, it accelerates at 2m/s2
and travelled for 10 seconds at a for 4 seconds. It then travel for 2 more seconds
speed of 30m/s. she maintained a with uniform velocity. The car finally decelerates
speed of 30m/s for 10 seconds, after to stop in 15 seconds. Calculate:-
which she applied the brakes and a) The distance travelled in 5 seconds
stopped after 5 seconds. Draw the b) Average velocity for the journey, assuming
graph of speed against time and that the whole journey was in the straight
calculate:- line.
a) The total distance travelled
b) The time taken for the whole 19. An object with initial velocity of 20m/s
journey moves due north at an acceleration of 8m/s2for 5
c) The maximum speed attained seconds. What is the total displacement during
d) The area under the graph that time?
represented.
20. A body moved upward a distance of 20m.
15. A car starts to move from rest Calculate:
and accelerates uniformly at the rate a) The initial velocity
of 2m/s2 for 6s. It then maintained a b) The time to reach the maximum
constant speed for half a minute. height
After the brakes are applied, it
retards uniformly to rest in 5s. 21. A stone dropped down a well takes 2s to
Calculate:- reach the water surface. Calculate:
a) The total distance covered in a) The velocity with which the stone hits the
metres water
b) The maximum speed reached b) The distance of the water surface
from the top of the well shaft.
16. A train travelling at 30km/h
stops when brakes are applied. The 22. A stone is thrown vertically upwards with
train suffers a deceleration of 2m/s2. an initial velocity of 30m/s from the top of the
a) How long does the train take to tower 34m high. Find:
come to rest? a) The time taken to reach the
b) What is its final velocity? maximum height
c) How long does the train take b) The total time that elapses before it
before reaches the ground.
finally stopping?
23. A ball is thrown horizontally at 10m/s from
17. An object travelling at 10m/s a height of 2m above the ground.
accelerates at 4m/s2for 8s. a) How long does it take to hit the
a) Calculate the final velocity ground?
b) How does it travel for 8 b) How far away from the thrower does
seconds? it hit the ground?

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24. A car is travelling at 20m/s the motion. From the graph, find
along a straight road. After 5s the (i) The deceleration.
brakes are applied. If this caused an (ii) The total distance covered.
acceleration of
3m/s2, find the car’s final velocity. 30. A car accelerated uniformly form rest for 20
seconds with an acceleration of 1.5m/s2. It then
25. An object is thrown straight up travels at constant speed for 2 minutes before
with an initial velocity of 50m/s. slowing down with a uniform deceleration to
a) How long will it take to reach come to rest in a further 10 seconds.
the maximum height? Sketch a velocity-time graph of the motion. From
b) To what height will it raise? the graph: Find:-
c) What will be its velocity when (i) The maximum speed.
starting to its initial point? (ii) The total distance travelled
d) How long will it be in air? (iii) The acceleration while slowing down

26. A car travelling at 20m/s to the 31. Two cars A and B start moving at the same
right stops in 10s. time along straight line with uniform acceleration
a) What was the car’s of 6m/s² and 4m/s² respectively.
acceleration? Give both the If the distance of separation between the two cars is
magnitude and direction 1000m. Calculate
b) How far did the car travel (i) The time taken for car A to overtake
before stopping? car B.
c) How far did the car have (ii) Distance travelled by car A before to
travelled if overtake car B
its initial velocity had been (iii) The velocity of car A when it
40m/s? overtake car B.

27. A stone dropped from the top of 32. A car start from rest and accelerates to a
the building hits the ground 4s later. velocity of 120 m/s in one minute. It then moves
a) How tall is the building? with constant speed for 40 seconds and finally
decelerates uniformly to rest after another 2
b) What was the stone’s velocity
minute. Draw the motion and calculate:
when
i) The total distance traveled from
it hits the ground?
the graph.
ii) The total time taken for the
28. An object is thrown straight up
with an initial velocity of 45m/s. At whole motion.
what two times will the object be
50m above the ground? 33. An iron ball is dropped from the tower of a
certain building near a beach and takes 3.5
29. A car travels with uniform seconds to reach the sand beach below. Find:
velocity of 30m/s for 5 seconds and (i) The velocity with which it strikes the
then comes to rest in the next 10 sand beach.
seconds with uniform deceleration. (ii) The height of the tower.
Draw a velocity-time graph of
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34. A car accelerates uniformly 6. A trolley of mass 5kg rests on a smooth
from 80m/s to 480m/s in 50sec. It horizontal track. A forward force of 4.5N is applied
then decelerates to in 100sec. to the trolley. Find the acceleration of the trolley.
(i) Draw the velocity time 7. A car moves with an acceleration of 5m/s2.
graph. (ii) Calculate If its mass is 2000kg, find the force with which the
acceleration and car is moving.
deceleration of the car.
8. A rocket of mass 20000kg is launched by
(iii)Calculate the total distance
applying a force of 5000000N for 20 seconds.
travelled by the car.
Calculate the velocity it attains at the end of the 20
seconds.
NEWTON’S LAWS OF
9. Calculate the average force needed to
MOTION change the velocity of a 20000kg bus from rest to
13.6m/s in 20 seconds.
1. A saloon car of mass 1000kg is 10. A car of mass 1800kg is moving at an initial
moving with a velocity of 60km/h. velocity of 20m/s. It hits a wall and stops after
What is its momentum? covering 1.8m. What is the average stopping force
that the wall applied on the car?
2. A tennis ball whose mass is
150g is moving at a speed of 20m/s. It 11. A 1000kg car collides with a 5000kg truck.
is then brought to rest by one player in During the collision, the truck exerts a force of
0.05s. Calculate the average force 10000N on the car. What are the accelerations of
applied. the car and the truck?

3. An unbalanced force of 12N 12. A 4kg object is moving to the right at 2m/s
acts on a mass of 12kg. Calculate: when it collides elastically head-on with a
stationary 6kg object. After the collision, the
a) The resulting acceleration velocity of the 6kg object is 1.6m/s to the right.
b) The force that would give a
a) What is the velocity of the 4kg object after
body of
the collision?
10kg the same acceleration
b) What is the total kinetic energy
4. A body at rest is acted upon by before and after collision?
a force for 20 seconds. The force is
then withdrawn and the body moves a 13. A trolley A of mass 1.5kg is travelling at
distance of 60m in the next 5 seconds. 6m/s. It collides with a stationary trolley B of mass
If the mass of the body is 10kg, 2kg. After the collision, the two continue travelling
calculate the magnitude of the force. together at 3m/s.

5. A train of mass 22 400kg a) What is the momentum of A before

moving at the rate of 112km/h is collision?
brought to rest in 24 seconds by the b) What is the momentum of A after
action of the brakes. Calculate the collision?
braking force. c) Why is there a change in the momentum of
A?

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 d) What is the kinetic energy of mass 7000kg. How many dots would have been
each trolley after the collision? printed on the tape?
14. A heavy car of 2000kg, 22. A projectile of mass 400g moving at 600m/s
travelling at 10m/s, has a head-on hits movable target of mass 20kg, which is at rest.
collision with a sport car B of mass The projectile and the target move on together after
500kg. If both cars stopped dead on the impact. Find: -
colliding, what was the velocity of B? a) the momentum of the projectile
b) the combined velocity just after the
15. What is the resultant force
impact
needed to accelerate a space shuttle of
mass 3000000kg from rest to 600m/s
in 33 seconds? 23. Two jet fighters of the same mass collide
16. A car of mass 1200kg is head-on and become tangled so that they move on
brought to rest by a uniform force of together. If the engines of both were stopped at the
300N in 80 seconds. Find the speed at moment of impact and the speed of the jets at
which the car was moving. impact were 120 m/s and 200 m/s, find the joint
velocity immediately after collision.
17. A body of mass 8kg moving
with a velocity of 20m/s collides with 24. A 900 kg bus starts from rest and
another body of mass 4kg moving with acceleration uniformly at 5 m/s2 for 10 seconds.
a velocity of 10m/s in the same Calculate:
direction. The velocity of the 8kg body i) The velocity of the bus in the 8th second.
is reduced to 15m/s after the collision. ii) The momentum of the bus in the 5th
If the bodies don’t stick together after second.
the collision, calculate the final iii) The force of the bus
velocity of the 4kg body.
18. After striking its target, a bullet 25. Two identical trolleys are on a smooth
of mass 50g is brought to rest in 2 horizontal plane. One trolley is at rest and the other
seconds by a force of 300N. Calculate approached it at a constant speed of 20m/s. After
the velocity of the bullet before impact the two trolleys move together. What is their
striking the target. velocity?

19. A soldier fires a bullet of mass 26. A boy with mass 50kg running at 5m/s
200g from a gun of mass 5kg. The jumps on to a 20kg trolley travelling in the
bullet leaves the gun with a velocity of same direction at 1.5 m/s. What is their common
100m/s. Find the average force exerted velocity?
on the gun given that the recoil of the
gun lasted for 2 seconds.
20. A shot of mass 100kg leaves a 27. The velocity of a body of mass 10kg
cannon of mass 5 tonnes with a increases from 4m/s to 8m/s when a forces acts on
velocity of 100m/s. Find the velocity of it for 2 sec. What is
recoil of the canon. a) (i) The momentum before the force acts?

21. A shell of mass 30kg is fired at

a velocity of 600m/s from a gun of

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 (ii) The momentum after the persisted for two seconds. Find the velocities of the
force acts. (iii) The bullet and recoil of the gun.
momentum gain per
second?
(iv) The value of the force?

28. A bullet of mass 250g is fired

from a gun of mass 5kg exerting a
force of 30N against the gunman which

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