IDEAL INDIAN SCHOOL, DOHA- QATAR

CLASS XI – WORKSHEET

CHAPTER 3 - MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE

1. Two balls are thrown simultaneously, (A) vertically upwards with a speed of
20 m/s from the ground and (B) vertically downwards from the height of 40 m with the
same speed and along the same line of motion. At which points the balls will collide?
(take g=10m/s2 )

2. A car moving along a straight highway with speed of 126 km/h is brought to a stop
within a distance of 200 m. What is the retardation of the car (assumed uniform), and how
long does it take for the car to stop?

3. The position of an object moving along x-axis is given by x = a + b t 2, where a = 8.5 m

4. State and Prove Galileo law of odd numbers.

5. A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km away with a speed
of 5 km h−1 . Finding the market closed, he instantly turns and walks back home with a
speed of 7.5 km h−1. What is the (a) magnitude of average velocity, and
(b) average speed of the man over the interval of time (i) 0 to 30 min, (ii) 0 to 50 min
(iii) 0 to 40 min?

6. The speed-time graph of a particle moving along a fixed direction is shown in Fig.
Obtain the distance traversed by the particle between time t = 0 s to 10 s.
7. The equation √x = t + 9 gives the variation of displacement of a particle with
time. Show that the acceleration of the particle is constant.

8. A car moves with a speed of 2.24 km/h in 1st minute, with 3.60 km/h in second
minute and with 5.18 km/h in the third minute. Calculate the average speed in
these three minutes.

9. A particle moving along a straight line has a velocity v m /s, when it cleared a distance
of x m. These two are connected by the relation v= √49+ x. Calculate the acceleration of
the particle, when its velocity is 1 m/s.

10. Two bodies fall freely from different heights and reach the ground
simultaneously. The time of descent for the first body is 2 s and for the second
body is 1 s. At what height was the first body situated, when the other began to
fall ?
11. The velocity – time graph of an object moving along a straight line is shown in
fig. Find (a) the distance covered and (b) the displacement of the object in time
interval between t = 0 s and t = 10 s.
12. Prove that the distance travelled by a body in nth second of its motion is given
by Sn = u + a/2 (2n – 1), where the symbols have their usual meaning.
13. An object is covering distance in direct proportion to t3, where t is time elapsed
a) what conclusion might you draw about the acceleration? Is it constant or
increasing or decreasing or zero with time. b) What might you conclude about the
force acting on the object?
14. The displacement x of a particle moving in one dimension under the action of a
constant force is related to time t by the equation t = √x + 3 where x is in metres and t is
in seconds. Find the acceleration of the particle.

15. The displacement (in meter) of a particle moving along the x-axis is given x=18t+5t 2
Calculate the (i) instantaneous velocity at t = 2 sec
(ii) Average velocity between t = 2 sec and t = 3 sec
(iii) instantaneous acceleration.

16. On a foggy day, two car drivers spot each other, when they are just 80 m apart.
They are traveling at 72 km/h and 60 km/h respectively towards each other. Both of
them simultaneously apply brakes, which retard both the cars at a rate of 5 m/s2.
Determine whether they avert the collision or not.

17. Obtain the equations of motion by the method of integral calculus.

18. Deduce the equations of motion by graphical method.

19. If a car at rest accelerates uniformly to a speed of 144 km/h in 20 s, it covers a

20. A body starts from rest. What is the ratio of the distance travelled by the body
during fourth and third second ?

(a) 7/5 (b) 5/7 (c) 7/3 (d) 3/7

21. Two bodies of mass 1 kg and 3 kg are dropped from heights of 16 m and 25 m
respectively. The ratio of the time taken by them to reach the ground is

(a) 4/5 (b) 5/4 (c) 12/5 (d) 5/12

(a) 18 m/ s 2 (b) 8 m/ s 2 (c) 24 m/ s 2 (d) 32 m/ s 2

23. A car travels first half of the distance between two places with a speed of 30 km/h
and the remaining half with a speed of 50 km/h. The average speed of the car is

(a) 45 km/h (b) 42.8 km/h (c) 37.5 km/h (d) 48 km/h

24. If velocity varies with time as v = 4 t , the distance travelled by the body in the
interval of 2 to 4 s is

(a) 20.5 m (b) 24 m (c) 26 m (d) 30 m

25. One body is dropped, while a second body is thrown upward with an initial
velocity of 2 m/s simultaneously. The separation between these is 18 m after a time of

(a) 18 s (b) 9 s (c) 4.5 s (d) 36 s

26. The velocity of a bullet is reduced from 200 m/s to 100 m/s while travelling
through a wooden plank of thickness 10 cm. The retardation, assuming it to be
uniform, will be
(a) 10 x 10 4 m/s2 (b)12 x 10 4 m/s2 (c) 13.5 x 10 4 m/s2 (d) 15 x 10 4 m/s2