SELF PRACTICE QUESTIONS

1. A particle is moving in a circle of diameter 5m. Calculate the distance covered and the displacement
when it competes 3 revolutions.

2. A body thrown vertically upwards reaches a maximum height ‘h’. It then returns to ground. Calculate the
distance travelled and the displacement.

3. A body travels a distance of 15m from A to B and then moves a distance of 20m at right angles to AB.
Calculate the total distance travelled and the displacement.

4. An object is moving in a circle of radius ‘r’. Calculate the distance and displacement
(i) When it completes half the circle
(ii) When it completes one full circle.

5. An object travels 16m in 4s and then another 16m in 2s. What is the average speed of the object?

6. Vishnu swims in a 90m long pool. He covers 180m in one minute by swimming from one end to the
other and back along the same straight path. Find the average speed and average velocity of Vishnu.

7. In along distance race, the athletics were expected to take four rounds of the track such that the line of
finish was same as the line of start. Suppose the length of the track was 200m.
(a) What is the total distance to be covered by the athletics?
(b) What is the displacement of the athletics when they touch the finish line?
(c) Is the motion of the athletics uniform or non-uniform?
(d) Is the displacement of an athletic and the distance covered by him at the end of the race equal?

8. Starting from a stationary position, Bhuvan paddles his bicycle to attain a velocity of 6m/s in 30s. Then
he applies brakes such that the velocity of bicycle comes down to 4m/s in the next 5s. Calculate the
acceleration of the bicycle in both the cases.

9. Amit is moving in his car with a velocity of 45km/hr. How much distance will he cover
(a) in one minute and
(b) in one second.

10. The odometer of a car reads 2000 km at the start of a trip and 2400km at the end of the trip. If the trip took
8 hr, calculate the average speed of the car in km/hr and m/s.

11. An electric train is moving with a velocity of 120km/hr. How much distance will it move in 30s?

12. A body is moving with a velocity of 15m/s. If the motion is uniform, what will be the velocity after
10s?

13. A train travels some distance with a speed of 30km/hr and returns with a speed of 45km/hr. Calculate the
average speed of the train.

14. A train 100m long moving on a straight level track passes a pole in 5s. Find
(a) The speed of the train
(b) The time it will take to cross a bridge 500m long.

15. A car travels along a straight line for first half time with speed 40km/hr and the second half time with
speed 60km/hr. Find the average speed of the car.

16. A body starts rolling over a horizontal surface with an initial velocity of 0.5m/s. Due to friction, its
velocity decreases at the rate of 0.05m/s2. How much time will it take for the body to stop?
17. A car traveling at 36km/hr speeds upto 70km/hr in 5 seconds. What is its acceleration? If the same car
stops in 20s, what is the retardation?

18. A scooter acquires a velocity of 36km/hr in 10seconds just after the start. It takes 20 seconds to stop.
Calculate the acceleration in the two cases.

19. On a 120km track, a train travels the first 30 km at a uniform speed of 30 km/hr. How fast must the
train travel the next 90 km so as to average 60 km/hr for the entire trip?

20. A train travels at 60 km/hr for 0.52 hr; at 30 km/hr for the next 0.24 hr and at 70 km/hr for the next 0.71
hr. What is the average speed of the train?

NUMERICALS
1. The right-sided figure is the distance-time graph of an object. Do you think it represents a real situation?
If so, why? If not, why not?

2. The graph in below figure shows the positions of a body at different times. Calculate the speed of the body
as it moves from (i) A to B (ii) B to C and (iii) C to D.

3. The velocity time graph of an ascending passenger lift is given below. What is the acceleration of the lift:
(i) during the first two seconds (ii) between 2nd and 10th second (iii) during the last two seconds.

4. A body is moving uniformly with a velocity of 5m/s. Find graphically the distance travelled by it in 5
seconds.
5. Study the speed-time graph of a body shown in below figure and answer the following questions:
(a) What type of motion is represented by OA?
(b) What type of motion is represented by AB?
(c) What type of motion is represented by BC?
(d) Calculate the acceleration of the body.
(e) Calculate the retardation of the body.
(f) Calculate the distance travelled by the body from A to B.

6. In the above question, calculate (i) distance travelled from O to A (ii) distance travelled from B to C. (iii)
total distance travelled by the body in 16 sec.
7. A car is moving on a straight road with uniform acceleration. The following table gives the speed of the
car at various instants of time:
Time(t) 0 10 20 30 40 50
Speed(m/s) 5 10 15 20 25 30
Draw the speed time graph choosing a convenient scale. Determine from it (i) the acceleration of the car (ii)
the distance travelled by the car in 50 sec.
8. The graph in below figure shows the positions of a body at different times. Calculate the speed of the body
as it moves from (i) A to B (ii) B to C and (iii) C to D.

9. A car is moving on a straight road with uniform acceleration. The speed of the car varies with time as
follows:
Time(t) 0 2 4 6 8 10
Speed(m/s) 4 8 12 16 20 24
Draw the speed time graph choosing a convenient scale. Determine from it (i) the acceleration of the car (ii)
the distance travelled by the car in 10 sec.
10. The graph given below is the velocity-time graph for a moving body. Find (i) velocity of the body at point
C (ii) acceleration acting on the body between A and B (iii) acceleration acting on the body between B and C.
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
1. A car increases its speed from 20 km/h to 50 km/h in 10 seconds. What is its acceleration?
2. A ship is moving at a speed of 56km/h. One second later, it is moving at 58km/h. What is its
acceleration?
3. A scooter acquires a velocity of 36km/h in 10 seconds just after the start. Calculate the acceleration of the
scoter.
4. A racing car has uniform acceleration of 4m/s2. What distance will it cover in 10 seconds after start?
5. A car acquires a velocity of 72km/h in 10 seconds starting from rest. Find (a) the acceleration (b) the
average velocity (c) the distance travelled in this time.
6. A body is accelerating at a constant rate of 10m/s2. If the body starts from rest, how much distance will it
cover in 2 seconds?
7. An object undergoes an acceleration of 8m/s2 starting from rest. Find the distance travelled in 1 second.
8. A moving train is brought to rest within 20 seconds by applying brakes. Find the initial velocity, if the
retardation due to brakes is 2m/s2.
9. A car accelerates uniformly from 18km/h to 36 km/h in 5 seconds. Calculate (i) acceleration and (ii) the
distance covered by the car in that time.
10. A body starts to slide over a horizontal surface with an initial velocity of 0.5 m/s. Due to friction, its
velocity decreases at the rate of 0.05 m/s2. How much time will it take for the body to stop?
11. A train starting from the rest moves with a uniform acceleration of 0.2 m/s2 for 5 minutes. Calculate the
speed acquired and the distance travelled in this time.
12. A bus was moving with a speed of 54 km/h. On applying brakes, it stopped in 8 seconds. Calculate the
acceleration and the distance travelled before stopping.
13. A motor cycle moving with a speed of 5 m/s is subjected to an acceleration of 0.2 m/s2. Calculate the
speed of the motor cycle after 10 seconds and the distance travelled in this time.
14. The brakes applied to a car produce an acceleration of 6 m/s2 in the opposite direction to the motion.
If the car takes 2 seconds to stop after the application of brakes, calculate the distance it travels during this
time.
15. A train starting from rest attains a velocity of 72 km/h in 5 minutes. Assuming that the acceleration is
uniform, find (i) the acceleration and (ii) the distance travelled by the train for attaining this velocity.
16. Calculate the speed of the tip of second’s hand of a watch of length 1.5 cm.
17. A cyclist goes once round a circular track of diameter 105m in 5 minutes. Calculate his speed.
18. A cyclist moving on a circular track of radius 50m complete revolution in 4 minutes. What is his (i)
average speed (ii) average velocity in one full revolution?
19. The length of minutes hand of a clock in 5 cm. Calculate its speed.
20. A car starts from rest and moves along the x-axis with constant acceleration 5m/s2 for 8 seconds. If it
then continues with constant velocity, what distance will the car cover in 12 seconds since it started from the
rest?
21. An object is dropped from rest at a height of 150m and simultaneously another object is dropped from
rest at a height 100m. What is the difference in their heights after 2 seconds if both the objects drop with
same acceleration? How does the difference in heights vary with time?
22. Obtain a relation for the distance travelled by an object moving with a uniform acceleration in the
interval between 4th and 5th seconds.
23. 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 (Assume upward
acceleration is - g and downward acceleration to be +g).
24. An object starting from rest travels 20m in first 2 seconds and 160m in next 4 seconds. What will be
the velocity after 7 seconds from the start?
25. An electron moving with a velocity of 5 x 104 m/s enters into a uniform electric field and acquires a
uniform acceleration of 104m/s2 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?