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Prakash Academy Std X Science - Weekly Workout

Week 1 12:40 April 15 − 21
Dear Students,
We will be sending you a set of problems on weekly basis. You need
to maintain a separate file / notebook for these problems. Solve
each problem carefully and write complete solution. You may have
solved some of these problems earlier during class practice. Please
do solve them again.
You are required to bring the file to the first session of tenth stan-
dard and submit it to the respective teacher.
This is the first set, which has mixed problems which are extremely
elementary. Ideally, you should be able to do more than 80% of
these problems without any paper-work. Do a time test for your-
self and record the total time required to solve all the problems (of
course with correct solutions.)
Q1. Water drips from the nozzle of a shower onto the floor 200
cm below. The drops fall at regular (equal) intervals of time, the
first drop striking the floor at the instant the fourth drop begins
to fall. Find the locations of the second and third drops when the
first strikes the floor.
Q2. A parachutist bails out and freely falls 50 m. Then the
parachute opens and thereafter she decelerates at 2.0 m/s2 . She
reaches the ground with a speed of 3.0 m/s. How long is the
parachutist in the air? At what height does the fall begin?
Q3. A rock is dropped (from rest) from the top of a 60 m tall build-
ing. How far above the ground is the rock 1.2 s before it reaches
the ground?
Q4. A mother racing her son has half the kinetic energy of the son,
who has half the mass as the mother. Mother speeds up by 1.0 m/s
and then has the same kinetic energy as that of the son. What are
the original speeds of the mother and the son?
Q5. The force (not the power) required to tow a boat at constant
velocity is proportional to the speed. If a speed of 4.0 km/h requires
7.5 kW power, how much power does a speed of 12 km/h require?
Q6. A block of wood floats in freshwater with two-thirds of its
volume submerged. In oil the block floats with 0.90 of its volume
submerged. Find the density of the wood and the oil.
Q7. An iron anchor of density 7870 kg/m3 appears 200 N lighter
in water than in air. What is the volume of the anchor? How much
does it weigh in air?
Q8. A water filled cone of height 50 cm and base area 20 sq cm is
placed on a table with the base on the table. What is the thrust
offered by the water on the table?
Q9. What is the resultant temperature when 100 g of steam at
1000 C is passed through 500 g of ice at −200 C. The specific heat
of water is 0.5 cal / g 0 C.
Q10. Two substances A and B have their densities, specific heats
and volumes in the same ratio of 2:3. Find the ratio of the thermal
capacities.
Q11. A stone is dropped from the top of a tall building. Two sec-
ond later another stone is dropped from the same point. Calculate
the distance between the stones, 2.5 second after the second stone
was dropped. Ignore air resistance. Express your answer in meter.
Q12. The speed of a motor boat with respect to water is 14 m/s.
The speed of water with respect to the banks is 6 m/s. When the
boat began traveling upstream, a buoy was dropped from it. A
buoy is a body that can float in water. The boat traveled 6.3 km
upstream (with respect to banks), turned about and caught up with
the buoy. Find the time T lapsed between dropping the buoy and
catching up with it again.
Q13. A person performs the following experiment to measure the
acceleration of an elevator. He takes a weighing machine, keeps it
on the floor of an elevator. He records his mass as 50 kg when the
elevator is at rest. He continues to stand on the machine and then
starts the elevator, which begins to move down. He records his
mass to be 48 kg during the downward acceleration of the elevator.
From this observation, calculate the acceleration of the elevator.
Q14. Two clay balls are moving toward each other along a com-
mon straight line. The one on the left has mass 3 kg and velocity
4 m/s. The one on the left has mass 2 kg and velocity 9 m/s. The
balls collide and form a single ball of mass 5 kg and keep moving.
Some kinetic energy is lost as heat in this process. Calculate this
lost energy. Express your answer in Joule.
Q15. An athlete completes one round of a circular track of di-
ameter 200 m in 40 s. What will be the distance covered and the
displacement at the end of 2 minutes 20 s?
Q16. Joseph jogs from one end A to the other end B of a straight
300 m road in 2 minutes 30 seconds and then turns around and jogs
100 m back to point C in another 1 minute. What are Joseph’s av-
erage speeds and velocities in jogging (a) from A to B and (b) from
A to C?
Q17. Abdul, while driving to school, computes the average speed
for his trip to be 20 km h-1. On his return trip along the same route,
there is less traffic and the average speed is 30 km h-1. What is the
average speed for Abdul’s trip?
Q18. A motorboat starting from rest on a lake accelerates in a
straight line at a constant rate of 3.0 m s-2 for 8.0 s. How far does
the boat travel during this time?
Q19. A driver of a car travelling at 52 km h-1 applies the brakes
and accelerates uniformly in the opposite direction. The car stops
in 5 s. Another driver going at 3 km h-1 in another car applies his
brakes slowly and stops in 10 s. On the same graph paper, plot the
speed versus time graphs for the two cars. Which of the two cars
travelled farther after the brakes were applied?
Q20. A ball is gently dropped from a height of 20 m. If its velocity
increases uniformly at the rate of 10 m s-2, with what velocity will
it strike the ground? After what time will it strike the ground?
Q21. State which of the following situations are possible and give
an example for each of these:
(a) an object with a constant acceleration but with zero velocity
(b) an object moving with an acceleration but with uniform speed.
(c) an object moving in a certain direction with an acceleration in
the perpendicular direction.
Q22. An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius
42250 km. Calculate its speed if it takes 24 hours to revolve around
the earth.
M.Prakash Academy Std X Science - Weekly Workout
Week 2 April 22 − 28
Dear Students,
This is second of the weekly problem-sets. Solve each problem care-
fully and write complete solution in the file maintained. You may
have solved some of these problems earlier during class practice.
Please do solve them again.
You are required to bring the file to the first session of tenth stan-
dard in June and submit it to the respective teacher.
Q1. A lift is coming from 8th floor and is just about to reach 4th
floor. Taking ground floor as origin and positive direction upwards
for all quantities, which all of the following is correct?
(a) x < 0, v < 0, a > 0 (b) x > 0, v < 0, a < 0
(c) x > 0, v < 0, a > 0 (d) x > 0, v > 0, a < 0
Q2. In one dimensional motion of a given object, instantaneous
speed v satisfies 0 ≤ v < v0 where v0 is some positive constant
value, then which all of the following is correct?
(a) Displacement in time T must always take non-negative values.
(b) Displacement x in time T satisfies vT < x < v0 T .
(c) Acceleration is always a non-negative number.
(d) The motion has no turning points.
Q3. A vehicle travels half the distance L with speed V1 and the
other half with speed V2 , then its average speed is
(a) (V1 + V2 ) / 2 (b) (2 V1 + V2 ) / (V1 + V2 )
(c) 2 V1 V2 / (V1 + V2 ) (d) L (V1 + V2 ) / V1 V2
Q4. At a metro station, a girl walks up a stationary escalator in
time t1 . If she remains stationary on the escalator, then the esca-
lator take her up in time t2 . The time taken by her to walk up on
the moving escalator will be
(a) (t1 + t2 )/2 (b) t1 t2 /(t2 t1 )
(c) t1 t2 /(t1 + t2 ) (d) t1 - t2
Q5. A ball is bouncing elastically with a speed 1 m/s between walls
of a railway compartment of size 10 m in a direction perpendicular
to walls. The train is moving at a constant velocity of 10 m/s par-
allel to the direction of motion of the ball. As seen from ground,
(a) the direction of motion of the ball changes every 10 seconds.
(b) speed of ball changes every 10 seconds.
(c) average speed of ball over any 20 second interval is fixed.
(d) the acceleration of ball is the same as from the train.
Q6. A uniformly moving cricket ball is turned back by hitting it
with a bat for a very short time interval. Plot the variation of its
acceleration with time in a graph. (Take acceleration in the back-
ward direction as positive).
Q7. Give examples of a one-dimensional motion where
(a) the particle moving along positive x-direction comes to rest pe-
riodically and moves forward.
(b) the particle moving along positive x-direction comes to rest pe-
riodically and moves backward.
Q8. Give example of a motion where x > 0, v < 0, a > 0 at a
particular instant.
Q9. A bird is tossing (flying to and fro) between two cars moving
towards each other on a straight road. One car has a speed of 18
km/h while the other has the speed of 27 km/h. The bird starts
moving from first car towards the other and is moving with the
speed of 36 km/h and when the two cars were separated by 36 km.
What is the total distance covered by the bird? What is the total
displacement of the bird?
Q10. A man runs across the roof-top of a tall building and jumps
horizontally with the hope of landing on the roof of the next build-
ing which is of a lower height than the first. If his speed is 9 m/s,
the (horizontal) distance between the two buildings is 10 m and
the height difference is 9 m, will he be able to land on the next
building? (take g = 10 m/s2)
Q11. Consider that rain clouds are about a kilometer altitude
above the ground.
(a) If a rain drop falls from such a height freely under gravity, what
will be its speed? Also calculate in km/h. (g = 10m/s2)
(b) A typical rain drop is about 4 mm diameter. Estimate its mo-
mentum when it hits ground.
(c) Estimate the time required to flatten the drop.
(d) Rate of change of momentum is force. Estimate how much force
such a drop would exert on you.
(e) Estimate the order of magnitude force on umbrella. Typical
lateral separation between two rain drops is 5 cm. (Assume that
umbrella is circular and has a diameter of 1 m and cloth is not
pierced through !!)
Q12. A motor car moving at a speed of 72 km/h can not come to
a stop in less than 3.0 s while for a truck this time interval is 5.0 s.
On a higway the car is behind the truck both moving at 72 km/h.
The truck gives a signal that it is going to stop at emergency. At
what distance the car should be from the truck so that it does not
bump onto (collide with) the truck. Human response time is 0.5 s.
(Comment : This is to illustrate why vehicles carry the message on
the rear side. ‘Keep safe Distance’)
Q13. A man is standing on top of a building 100 m high. He
throws two balls vertically, one at t = 0 and other after a time
interval (less than 2 seconds). The later ball is thrown at a velocity
of half the first. The vertical gap between first and second ball is
+15 m at t = 2 s. The gap is found to remain constant. Calculate
the velocity with which the balls were thrown and the exact time
interval between their throw.
Q14.In a graph, distance is plotted against time. What does the
graph tell us if:
(i) The curve is a straight line parallel to the time axis?
(ii) The curve coincides with the time axis?
(iii) The curve makes an angle of 300 with the time axis and passes
through the origin?
(iv) At time t = 0 the curve has some positive value on the distance
axis and makes an angle of 1500 with the time axis. How much is
that positive value at time t = 0?
Q15.In a graph, velocity is plotted against time. What does the
graph tell us if we have curves exactly same as those mentioned in
the above problem?
M.Prakash Academy Std X Science - Weekly Workout
Week 3 April 29 - May 5
Dear Students,
This is third of the weekly problem-sets. Solve each problem care-
fully and write complete solution in the file maintained. You may
have solved some of these problems earlier during class practice.
Please do solve them again.
You are required to bring the file to the first session of tenth stan-
dard in June and submit it to the respective teacher.
Q1. A box of mass 50 kg is kept on the ground. Two horizontal
forces of 35 N and 45 N are applied on the box respectively from
the right and the left. However the box remains stationary. Find
the frictional force acting on the box.
Q2. A force produces an acceleration of 0.5 cm/s2 when it acts on
a body of mass 4 gm. Compute the force in (i) Newton (ii) Dyne.
Q3. A force acts on a body of mass 2000 gm. The velocity of the
body changes from 15 m/s to 30 m/s in 5 second. Assuming that
the force is constant, find its magnitude in (i) Newton (ii) Dyne.
Q4. A bullet of mass 40 gm moving with 180 m/s penetrates into a
thick wall. It takes 30 mili second to stop after hitting the surface
of the wall. Find
(i)the acceleration of the bullet in the wall.
(ii) the force exerted by the bullet on the wall.
(iii) the force exerted by the wall on the bullet and
(iv) the distance covered by the bullet inside the wall.
Q5. A vehicle of mass 1200 kg is moving on an expressway with
108 km/hr. It comes to rest after 6 second of application of the
brakes. Assuming that the acceleration produced is constant, what
is the force applied on the vehicle during this period?
Q6. A box of mass 80 kg is lying on a horizontal floor. When
pushed by a horizontal force Fh it moves with a constant velocity.
If it is pushed by a horizontal force of 2Fh it moves with an accel-
eration of 0.2 m/s2 . Find the value of Fh .
Q7. Two carts C1 and C2 of mass 20 kg each are tied to each other
with a light but strong wire. Cart C1 is towards the right of cart
C2 . A girl holds C1 and pulls it with a horizontal force of 100 N
towards the right. Total force of friction acting on each of the carts
is 22.5 N and it acts towards the left. Find (i) acceleration of the
carts. (ii) force exerted by the wire on cart C2 .
Q8. An object having half a kilogram mass is at rest. A force of
8 N acts on it for 8 s. Find the distance traveled by the particle in
these 8 second and the next 8 second.
Q9. Two magnets of masses 24 gm and 16 gm are held on smooth,
frictionless table. They are kept near each other with North of one
pointing towards the south of the other. The magnets start moving
towards each other when left on their own. At some point during
the motion, the velocity of the heavier magnet is 2.4 m/s. Find the
velocity of the lighter magnet at that instant.
Q10. An object of mass 75 gm is moving. Its velocity-time graph
plotted for 8 second of the motion turns out to be a line bisect-
ing angle between the positive velocity axis and positive time axis.
Compute the force acting on the object. Given Scale: On the
velocity-axis 1 cm = 2 m/s and on the time-axis 1 cm = 1 s.
Motion of another object plotted on the same graph turns out to be
a line intersecting the first line at time t = 8s and the velocity-axis
at 1 m/s. If the force acting on this object is same as that on the
first object, compute its mass.
Q11. A boat is traveling upstream at 14 km/hr with respect to
(w.r.t.) water of the river and the water is flowing at 9 km/hr w.r.t.
the ground.
(i) What is the velocity of the boat w.r.t. the ground?
(ii) A child on the boat walks from the front to the rear of the boat
at 6 km/hr w.r.t the boat. What is her velocity w.r.t. the ground?
Q12. A person walks up a stalled (stopped) 15 meter long escala-
tor in 1.5 minute. It the escalator were moving, the person would
be carried up in 1 minute. How much time would it take for the
person to walk up a moving escalator?
Q13. You may have heard about people pulling cars / trucks with
their teeth or tied to their hair, etc. In one such event, the famous
teeth-acrobat John Massis (1940 − 1988) pulled (with his teeth) on
his end of the rope tied to railroad cars with a force 2.5 times his
body weight. The force was applied at 300 angle from the hori-
zontal. The weight of the cars was 700 kilo Newton and he moved
them 1 meter along the rails. Assuming that the rolling wheels
experienced no retarding force from the rails, compute the speed of
the cars at the end of this pull. Massis had a body mass of 80 kg.
Q14. A block B1 of mass 3.3 kg is placed on a smooth, frictionless
and horizontal table. It is connected to B2 of mass 2.1 kg with a
‘massless’ string. The string passes over a pulley which is fixed to
the rightmost corner of the table. The situation is such that B1
is on the table (towards the left of the pulley) and B2 is hanging
(towards the south of the pulley). The hanging block B2 starts
falling as the sliding block B1 starts accelerating towards the right
(towards pulley). Pulley has negligible mass. Find
(i) the acceleration of B1 , (ii)the acceleration of B2 and (iii) tension
in the string.
Q15. A smooth, frictionless platform (incline) is kept in such a way
that its one end rests on ground and the other end rests along a
vertical wall making an angle of 300 with the ground. A ‘massless’
string, tied to a hook in the wall, holds an object of mass 15 kg on
the incline. Compute magnitudes of
(a) force on the block by the string and (b) normal force exerted
on the block by the incline.
Suppose we cut the string, the block will slide down the incline.
Does the block accelerate? If so, what is its acceleration?
Q16. A jet plane traveling with a speed 600 km/hr ejects its prod-
ucts of combustion at a speed of 1800 km/hr relative to the plane.
What is the speed of these gases with respect to the observer on
the ground?
Q17. An alien space traveler uses units of glong to measure dis-
tance and tock to measure time. She observes that her gun, dropped
from a high cliff, fell a distance of 1 [glong] in a time of 1 [tock].
How far will it fall in 2 [tocks]? (Ignore air resistance.)
Q18. A rock is dropped out of the window of a moving car. At
the same time a ball is dropped from rest from the same height.
(Neglect air resistance.) Which of them will reach the ground first?
Justify your answer.
Q19. A Father (80 Kg) and son (40kg) have put on roller-skating
shoes. They take a rope to play tug-of-war. Father wishes his son
to win, hence doesn’t exert much force. Finally who will win and
why? If they push each other with hands, who will travel faster?
Q20. A tow-truck exerts a 18300-N force upon a 1210 Kg car to
drag it out of a mud puddle onto the shoulder of a road. A 17900
N force opposes the car’s motion. The plane of motion of the car is
horizontal. Determine the time required to drag the car a distance
of 6.90 meters from its rest position.
Q21. A train has a mass of 6.5 × 104 kg and is moving with a speed
of 90 km/hr. The driver applies the brakes which results in a net
backward force of 2.6 × 105 N on the train. The brakes are held
for 4 second. How far (in meters) does the train travel during this
time?
Q22. A car goes up a hill with gradient of 45 degrees with hori-
zontal without changing its speed. Is the car accelerating? Explain
your answer.
Q23. A ball is dropped from a building of height 45 m. Simulta-
neously another ball is thrown up with a speed 40 m/s. Calculate
the relative speed of the balls as a function of time.
Q24. Note: In the following problems, please answer questions
conceptually and you must justify your answer.
CP1. Under what conditions does a spring exert forces on objects
attached to its ends?
CP2. A ball is moving on a frictionless horizontal surface and no
forces are applied on it. Will its speed increase, decrease or remain
constant?
CP3. Suppose two friends are standing besides each other and one
of them suddenly pushes the other and the other falls. According
to Newton’s third law the (falling) friend has exerted equal force
on the (pushing) friend. Why doesn’t the first friend fall down?
CP4. When you jump on concrete floor, your feet hurt more than
when you jump on sand. Explain.
CP5. Make a list of situations where two opposite and equal forces
do not form an action-reaction pair.
M.Prakash Academy Std X Science - Weekly Workout
Week 4 May 6 − 12
Dear Students,
This is fourth of the weekly problem-sets. Solve each problem care-
fully and write complete solution in the file maintained. You may
have solved some of these problems earlier during class practice.
Please do solve them again.
You are required to bring the file to the first session of tenth stan-
dard in June and submit it to the respective teacher.
Q1. On a two lane road, car A is traveling at 10 m/s while cars B
and C approach A in opposite directions with speed 15 m/s each.
At the instant when AB = AC = 1 km, B decides to overtake A
before C does. What minimum acceleration of car B is required to
avoid an accident?
Q2. A body moving with an initial velocity of 1 m/s accelerates
uniformly at 12 m/s2 . Find its displacement and velocity at the end
of 10 s. What is its velocity when it has a displacement of 48 m?
Q3. The initial velocity of a car 10 m/s. It accelerates uniformly
at 2 m/s2 for 20 s and thereafter retards uniformly at 4 m/s2 . Find
the total distance covered by the car before it comes to rest. For
how much time the car is in motion?
Q4. A body starting from rest accelerates uniformly at 0.1 m/s2
and retards uniformly at 0.2 m/s2 . What is the least time in which
it can complete a journey of 5 km if it attains a maximum velocity
of 72 km/hr? Express your answer in second.
Q5. A body moves in a straight line with uniform acceleration and
at time t = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 s, it has displacements of 12, 21, 38, 63 and
96 m respectively from a fixed point O. Find its acceleration.
Q6. A body moving with uniform acceleration covers 15 m in the
third second of its motion and 19.4 m in the fifth second. If its
acceleration is uniform, find the acceleration and initial velocity.
Q7. A body moving with uniform acceleration has velocities of 20
m/s and 30 m/s when passing points P and Q respectively in its
path. Find its velocity at the point midway between P and Q.
Q8. A train moving with uniform acceleration has its front end
passing a given fixed point P with a speed u and the tail end pass-
ing the same point P with a speed v. What is the speed of the
mid-point of the train when passing that point?
Q9. Two trains A and B, each of length 500 m are moving on
two parallel tracks with a uniform speed of 90 km/hr in the same
direction A being ahead of B. The driver of B accelerates at 1 m/s2
to overtake A. After 40 s the end if train B or its guard van just
passes by the front cabin or driver cabin of the train A. Find the
original distance between A and B.
Q10. Starting from rest, a body P travels with a uniform accel-
eration of 4 m/s2 and 4 s later a body Q travels with a uniform
acceleration of 16 m/s2 in the same direction as P . Note that Q
also starts from rest. Find when and where will they meet.
Q11. The initial velocity of a car is 5 m/s. It accelerates uniformly
at 12 m/s2 for 30 s and then retards uniformly at 2 m/s2 . Find the
distance covered by the car before it comes to rest. For how much
time is the car in motion?
Q12. A body moving with uniform acceleration covers 65 cm in
the 5th second and 105 cm in the 9th second. What distance does
it travel in 15 s?
Q13. A car travelling at 72 km/h has its velocity reduced to 36
km/h in 5 s. If the retardation is uniform, find how much distance
it has covered during this time. How much farther would it travel
before coming to rest assuming same uniform retardation?
Q14. Starting from rest, a car P travels with a uniform accelera-
tion of 2 m/s2 . Starting from rest from the same point 4 s later, a
car Q travels with an acceleration of 8 m/s2 in the same direction
as P . Find the time required by Q to overtake P . What is the
distance travelled by each car?
Q15. A body moves along a straight line with uniform acceleration
and at instants t = 0, 1, 2, 3 s, it is at distance of 30, 52.5, 80 and
112.5 m from a fixed point. Find its acceleration, velocity at t = 0.

Q16. An objects is thrown vertically upwards using a machine

with a velocity of 80 m/s. Find the maximum height attained by
the object and the time required for it to return to the point from
which it was thrown.
Q17. From the top of a cliff 104 m high, a body is thrown vertically
upward with velocity 20 m/s. Neglecting air resistance, compute:
(i) Maximum height attained by the object from the ground.
(ii)Time required to attain maximum height.
(iii) Time required to reach the point from which it was thrown.
(iv) Velocity with which the object passes the point of throw.
(v)Total time for which the object is in air.
(vi) Velocity with which it strikes the ground.
Q18. An object is released from height of 300 m. At the same
time, another object is thrown from the ground in vertically up-
ward direction with 30 m/s. Find where and when will they meet.
Q19. A stone released from top of a tower covers a distance of 25
m in the last second of its motion. Find the height of the tower.
Q20. A body at rest, with mass 160 kg, is subjected to a constant
force of 800 N. With is the distance travelled in 10 s? Neglect fric-
tion.
Q21. A constant force acts for 5 s on a body of mass 10 kg and
then stops acting. The body is initially at rest. If the body covers
a distance of 100 m in next 5 s, calculate the force applied. Neglect
friction.
Q22. An engine of mass 50 ton is moving with velocity of 36 km/hr.
What force can stop if within a distance of 100 m after its appli-
cation? How much force is needed if the engine is to be stopped in
10 s after the application of the force?
Q23. Two blocks of masses 50 kg and 150 kg are connected by a
light, massless string and are lying on a smooth, horizontal surface
with the lighter block on the right side of the heavier block. How
much force should be applied to pull the lighter block so that the
system of blocks accelerates with 5 m/s2 ? (We call this force as
F .) How much tension will be developed in the string? Call this
tension as T1 . Let T2 be the tension developed in the string when
force F is applied on the heavier block. Compute T1 − T2 .