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Motion Test – for Aniket MM – 60 Time – 1 hour

Subjective Problems (Each Q for 2 marks):

Q1. 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?

Q2. A player throws a ball upwards with an initial speed of 29.4 m/s.

(a) What is the direction of acceleration during the upward motion of the ball?

(b) What are the velocity and acceleration of the ball at the highest point of its motion?

(c) Choose the x = 0 m and t = 0 s to be the location and time of the ball at its highest
point, vertically downward direction to be the positive direction of x-axis, and give the
signs of position, velocity and acceleration of the ball during its upward, and downward
motion.

(d) To what height does the ball rise and after how long does the ball return to the player’s
hands? (Take g = 9.8 m s–2 and neglect air resistance).

Q3. A ball is dropped from a height of 90 m on a floor. At each collision with the floor, the
ball loses one tenth of its speed. Plot the speed-time graph of its motion between t = 0 to
12 s.

Q4. A plane is traveling at velocity 100 km/hr, in the southward direction. It encounters
wind traveling in the west direction at a rate of 25 km/hr. Calculate the resultant velocity of
the plane.

Q5. A motorcycle travelling on the highway at a velocity of 120 km/h passes a car
travelling at a velocity of 90 km/h. From the point of view of a passenger on the car, what
is the velocity of the motorcycle?

Q6. Prove 𝑆𝑛 = 𝑢 + 𝑎/2(2𝑛 − 1).

Q7. Prove the three equations of motion both algebraically and graphically.

Objective Problems (Each Q for 4 marks, -1 for wrong, 0 for no attempt):

Q1. A balloon is moving up from the ground in such a way that its acceleration is linearly
decreasing with its height above the ground. It starts from the ground with acceleration 4
m/ s2 and with zero initial velocity. Its acceleration becomes zero at a height 3 m. The
speed of the balloon at a height 1.5 m is …….
1) 4 m/s 2) 8 m/s 3) 6 m/s 4) 3 m/s

Q2. A train can accelerate at 20 cm/s2 and decelerate at 100cm/s2. Then the minimum
time for the train to travel between the stations 2 km apart is …… (The train should start at
one station and stop at another station) 1) 125
s 2) 100 s 3) 155 s 4) 200 s

Q3. Assertion (A): The velocity of a particle may vary even when its speed is constant
Reason

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(R): The particle is moving in circular path.

1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation to (A)

2) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation to (A)

3) (A) is true, but (R) is false

4) (A) is false, but (R) is true

Q4. If an object is moving with constant velocity, then the motion is

(A) speed (B) uniform acceleration

(C) uniform motion (D) non – uniform motion

Q5. A particle experiences constant acceleration for 20 s after starting from rest. If it
travels a distance S1 in the first 10 s and distance S2 in the next 10 s, the relation between
S1 and S2 is:

(a) S2=3S1 (b) S1=3S2 (c) S2=2S1 (d) S1=10S2

Q6. A boy throws h steel ball straight up. Consider the motion of the ball only after it has
left the boy's hand but before it touches the ground and assume that forces exerted by
the air are negligible. For these conditions, the force(s) acting on the ball is (are):

(a) a downward force of gravity along with a steadily decreasing upward force.

(b) a steadily decreasing upward force from the moment it leaves the boy's hand until it
reaches its highest point; on the way down there is a steadily increasing downward force
of gravity as the object gets closer to the earth.

(c)constant downward force of gravity along with an upward force that steadily decreases
until the ball reaches its highest point; on the way down there is only a constant
downward force of gravity.

(d) constant downward force of gravity only.

Q7.

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Q8.

Bonus Problem (4 marks):

Q. A particle moves along positive X-axis with a velocity (in a suitable unit) varying as (4 –
3t – t2) where t is time in seconds. Students draw following four conclusions.

(I) Initially the particle is at the origin.

(II) Initial speed of the particle is zero.

(III) The particle decelerates till t = 1 s.

(IV) The speed of the particle goes on increasing after t = 1 s.

Therefore, conclusions

a) (i) & (ii) are sometimes correct, (iii) & (iv)are always correct

b) (i), (iii) & (iv) are always correct and (ii) is sometimes correct

c) (i), (iii) & (iv) always correct, (ii) is never correct

d) (i) is sometimes correct, (ii) is never correct, (iii) & (iv) are always correct

Super Bonus Problem (10 marks):

Q. In an old Sherlock Holmes movie, a criminal kept a 12.5 cm long knife (mass 1 kg), in a
15 cm thick book (excluding thickness of the covers) with a spring trap. The spring has 25
turns each of 1 mm thickness. The spring is fixed at the back cover and the knife presses
the spring to its maximum when the front cover is closed so that the turns touch each
other. The design is such that if the book is held in front of the body and opened, the knife
gets detached from the spring and hits the reader (Sherlock Holmes in this case).
Unstretched length of the spring is equal to thickness of the book. However, Sherlock
Holmes was too smart and hence he opened the book in such a way that the knife flew
vertically upwards. All the energy of the spring is given to the knife, which just reached the

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ceiling, at a height of 5 m from the tip of the knife and got stuck there. Calculate the
spring constant which satisfies the equation F = - kx.
(a) 160/9 N/mm
(b) 40/9 N/mm
(c) 40 N/mm
(d) 6.4 N/mm