1. Which of the following is correct?

(a) Displacement is always equal to the distance.

(b) Displacement must be in the direction of the acceleration of the body.
(c) Displacement must not be in the direction of velocity.
(d) None of these.
2. A cyclist moving on a circular track of radius 40 m completes half a revolution in 40
seconds. Its average velocity is:
(a) zero (b) 4π m/s (c) 2 m/s (d) 8π m/s
3. The displacement of a body is given to be proportional to the cube of time elapsed. The
magnitude of the acceleration of the body is
(a) increasing with time (b) decreasing with time.
(c) constant but not zero. (d) zero.
4. Free fall of an object in vacuum is a case of motion with
(a) uniform velocity. (b) uniform acceleration.
(c) variable acceleration. (d) uniform speed.
5. Stopping distance of a moving vehicle is directly proportional to
(a) square of the initial velocity. (b) square of the initial acceleration.
(c) the initial velocity. (d) the initial acceleration.
6. If a body loses half of its velocity on penetrating 3 cm in a wooden block, then how
much will it penetrate more before coming to rest?
(a) 1 cm (b) 2 cm (c) 3 cm (d) 4 cm
7. A car moving with a speed of 50 km/h, can be stopped by brakes after at least 6 m. If
the same car is moving at a speed of 100 km/h, the minimum stopping distance is:
(a) 12 m (b) 18 m (c) 24 m (d) 6 m
8. A ball is released from the top of a tower of height h metre. It takes T second to reach
the ground. What is the position of the ball in T/3 second?
(a) h/9 metre from the ground (b) 7h/9 metre from the ground
(c) 8h/9 metre from the ground (d) 17h/18 metre from the ground
9. A body starts its motion with zero velocity and its acceleration is 3m/s2. Find the
distance travelled by it in fifth second.
(A) 15.5m (B) 17.5m (C) 13.5m (D) 14.5m
10. What does the speedometer measure kept in motorbike ?
(A) Average Velocity (B) Average speed
(C) instantaneous speed (D) instantaneous Velocity
11.A cold soft drink is kept on the balance. When the cap is open, then the weight
(A) Increases (B) Decreases
(C) First increase then decreases (D) Remains same
12. Newton's third law of motion leads to the law of conservation of
(A) Angular momentum (B) Energy
(C) mass (D) momentum
13. which of the following statement is correct?
(A) A body has a constant velocity but a varying speed.
 (B) A body has a constant speed but a varying value of acceleration.
(C) A body has a constant speed and zero acceleration.
(D) A body has a constant speed but velocity is zero.
14. Seven blocks, each of mass 1 kg are arranged one above the other as shown in figure.
what are the values of the contact forces exerted on the third block by the forth and the
second block respectively ? ( g = 10 ms-2 )

(A) 40 N, 50 N (B) 50 N, 40 N (C) 40 N, 20 N (D) 50 N, 30 N

15. An object of mass 3 kg is moving with a velocity of 5 m/s along a straight path. If a force
of 12 N is applied for 3 sec on the object in a perpendicular to its direction of motion. The
magnitude of velocity of the particle at the end of 3 sec is____________m/s.
(A) 5 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 4
16. Same forces act on two bodies of different mass 2 kg and 5 kg initially at rest. The ratio
of times required to acquire same final velocity is ____________
(A) 1:1 (B) 25:4 (C) 4:25 (D) 2:5
17. The average speed of a car, accelerating uniformly through three gear changes, as 20
m/s for 2 sec, 40 m/s for 2 sec and 60 m/s for 6 sec
(A) 12 m/s (b) 13.3 m/s (c) 40 m/s (d) 48 m/s
18. When a mass of 2kg is acted upon by a force of 4N for a duration of 2s, what is its rate
of change of momentum
(a) 1 kgm/s2 (b) 2 kg m/s2 (c) 4 kg m/s2 (d) 8 kg m/s2
19. Two blocks, X and Y , have masses m and 3m respectively. The given diagram shows
the block being accelerated along a smooth horizontal surface by a force F applied to block
X. During the acceleration, what is the magnitude of the force exerted by block X on block
Y?
 (a) ¼ F (b) 1/3 F (C) ½ F (d) 3/4F
20. Newton’s third law of motion applies to an action-reaction pair of forces. Which
statement concerning the pair of forces is NOT correct
(a) the two forces are at all times equal in magnitude
(b) the two force must act on different bodies
(c) the two forces are always opposite in direction
(d) the two forces are equal and opposite so bodies are in equilibrium
21. A car is moving with a speed of 20 m/s on a road, suddenly its engine was ceased if co-
efficient of friction between road and tyre is 0.2, find how much distance will car cover
before coming to rest ( take g = 10 m/s2)
(A) 20 m (b) 10 m (c) 40m (d) 15m
22. Which of the following correctly describes the principle of conservation of momentum?
(A) Momentum is the product of mass and velocity
(B) momentum is conserved only in elastic collisions
(C) momentum is conserved by all bodies in a collision
(D) momentum is conserved providing no external forces act
23. A ball thrown vertically upwards from the top of a tower with a speed of 40 m/s returns
back to the ground level in 10 s. The height of the tower is
(a) 50 m (b) 100 m (c) 200 m (d) 300 m
24. A stone is dropped from the top of a 20 m high cliff. One second later another stone is
thrown downwards from the cliff. Both the stones reach the ground simultaneously. The
initial speed of the second stone is (g = 10m/s2)
(a) 10 m/s (b) 15 m/s (c) 20 m/s (d) 25 m/s
25. A stone dropped from a certain height can reach the ground in 5 s. If it is stopped after
3 seconds of its fall and then allowed to fall again, the time taken by the stone to reach the
ground for the remaining distance is
(a) 2 s (b) 3 s (c) 4 s (d) none of these

26. A force of 12 N gives an object an acceleration of 4 m/s2. The force required to

give it an acceleration of 10 m/s2 is
(a) 15 N (b) 20 N (c) 25 N (d) 30 N
27. What force should be applied on a 5 kg body so that it has a downward acceleration
of 4 m/s2 ?
(a) 69 N upwards (b) 69 N downwards
(c) 29 N upwards (d) 29 N downwards
28. A body rolling freely on the surface of the earth eventually comes to rest because
(a) it has mass (b) it suffers friction
(c) it has inertia of rest (d) it has momentum
29. A body of mass 50 kg acquires a speed of 20 m/s under a force of 100 N in time
 (a) 5 s (b) 10 s (c) 15 s (d) 20 s
30. When two bodies stick together after the collision, the collision is said to be
(a) perfectly elastic (b) partially elastic
(c) completely inelastic (d) none of these