72 Worksheet
72 Worksheet
Chapter - 3
Motion in a Straight Line
Module - 2 Worksheet
1) The position of an object moving along x-axis is given by x = a + bt2 where a = 8.5 m, b =
2.5 m s–2 and t is measured in seconds. What is its velocity at t = 0 s and t = 2.0 s. What
is the average velocity between t = 2.0 s and t = 4.0 s ?
2) A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 20 m s–1 from the top of a multistorey
building. The height of the point from where the ball is thrown is 25.0 m from the ground.
(a) How high will the ball rise ? and (b) how long will it be before the ball hits the ground?
Take g = 10 m s–2.
3) A woman starts from her home at 9.00 am, walks with a speed of 5 km h–1 on a straight
road up to her office 2.5 km away, stays at the office up to 5.00 pm, and returns home by
an auto with a speed of 25 km h–1. Choose suitable scales and plot the x-t graph of her
motion.
4) A drunkard walking in a narrow lane takes 5 steps forward and 3 steps backward,
followed again by 5 steps forward and 3 steps backward, and so on. Each step is 1 m
long and requires 1 s. Plot the x-t graph of his motion. Determine graphically and
otherwise how long the drunkard takes to fall in a pit 13 m away from the start.
5) A car moving along a straight highway with speed of 126 km h–1 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?
6) Two trains A and B of length 400 m each are moving on two parallel tracks with a
uniform speed of 72 km h–1 in the same direction, with A ahead of B. The driver of B
decides to overtake A and accelerates by 1 m s–2. If after 50 s, the guard of B just
brushes past the driver of A, what was the original distance between them?
7) On a two-lane road, car A is travelling with a speed of 36 km h–1. Two cars B and C
approach car A in opposite directions with a speed of 54 km h–1 each. At a certain
instant, when the distance AB is equal to AC, both being 1 km, B decides to overtake A
before C does. What minimum acceleration of car B is required to avoid an accident?
8) Two towns A and B are connected by a regular bus service with a bus leaving in either
direction every T minutes. A man cycling with a speed of 20 km h–1in the direction A to B
notices that a bus goes past him every 18 min in the direction of his motion, and every 6
min in the opposite direction. What is the period T of the bus service and with what
speed (assumed constant) do the buses ply on the road?
10) 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 ?
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