TEST ANSWER-KEY Kinematics [Motion in One Dimension]

Section - A (Objective Type)

1. A car accelerates from rest at a constant rate  for sometime and attains a velocity of 20m/s. Afterward it
decelerates with a constant rate /2 and comes to a halt. If the total time taken is 10s, the distance travelled
by the car is :
(a) 200 m (b)* 100 m (c) 10 m (d) 20 m
2. A body is projected vertically upwards. If t1 and t2 be the times at which it is at height h above the point of
projection while ascending and descending respectively, then h is
(a)* 1/2 g t1t2 (b) g to t1t2 (c) 2g t1t2 (d) 4g t1t2
3. From a 20 m high tower one ball is thrown upward with speed of 10m/s and another is thrown vertically
downward at the same speed simultaneously. The time difference of their reaching the ground will be (take g
= 10m/s2)
(a) 12 s (b) 6 s (c)* 2 s (d) 1 s
4. A particle X moving with a constant velocity u crosses a point O. At the same instant another particle F
starts from rest from O with a constant acceleration a. The maximum separation between them before they
meet is
(a)* u2/2a (b) u2/a (c) 2u2/a (d) u2/4a
5. If a ball is thrown vertically upwards with speed ‘u’ the distance covered during the last t second of its
ascent is
(a) (u + gt)s (b) ut (c)* 1/2 gt2 (d) ut – 1/2gt2
6. A particle has an initial velocity of 9m/s due east and a constant acceleration of 2m/s2 due west. The distance
covered by the particle in the fifth second of its motion is
(a) 0 (b)* 0.5m (c) 2m (d) none of these
7. A train starts from station A with uniform acceleration  for some distance and then goes with uniform
retardation  for some more distance to come to rest at station B. The distance between station A and B is 4
km and the train takes 4 minute to complete this journey. If  and  are in km(min)2 then
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
(a)*     2 (b)     4 (c)     2 (d)     4
8. In the case of a moving body, pick the correct statement
(a) If speed changes with change in direction, velocity does not change
(b)* If velocity changes, speed may or may not change but acceleration does change
(c) If velocity changes, speed also changes with the same acceleration
(d) If speed changes without change in direction, the velocity may remain constant
9. A body dropped from the top of the tower covers a distance 7x in the last second of its journey, where x is
the distance in first second. How much time does it take to reach the ground ?
(a) 3s (b)* 4s (c) 5s (d) 6s
10. A body is projected with a velocity u. It passes through a certain point above the ground after t1sec. The
time interval after which the body passes through the same point during the return journey is
u 2 u   u2   u 
(a)  – t 1  (b)* 2  – t 1 (c) 3  – t1  (d) 3  2 – t1 
g  g   g  g 
11. An insect crawls a distance of 4m along north in 10 seconds and then a distance of 3m along east in 5
seconds. The average velocity of the insect is :
(a) 7/15 m/sec (b) 1/5 m/sec (c)* 1/3 m/sec (d) 4/5 m/sec
12. A particle returns to the strating point after 10s. If the rate of change of velocity during the motion is
constant in magnitude, then its location after 7 seconds will be same as that after :
(a) 1 second (b) 2 seconds (c)* 3 seconds (d) 4 seconds
13. Two particles P and Q simultaneously start moving from a point A with velocities 15m/s and 20m/s respec-
tively. The two particles move with accelerations equal in magnitude but opposite in direction. When P
overtake Q at B then its velocity is 30m/s. The velocity of Q at point B will be
(a) 30 m/s (b)* 5 m/s (c) 20 m/s (d) 15 m/s
14. Read the following statements and state whether they are True or False.
(i) If u and a both are negative, motion is only retarded.
(ii) If u is negative but a is positive, then displacement of the particle can never be positive.
(iii) If u is positive but a is negative particle comes to rest for a moment at some time but if u is negative and
a positive it never comes to rest.
(a) T, T, T (b)* F, F, F (c) T, F, T (d) F, T, F
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15. A body starts from rest and is uniformly accelerated for 30 s. The distance travelling in the first 10 s x1, next
10 s is x2 and the last 10 s is x2. Then x1 : x2 : x3 is:
(a) 1 : 2 : 4 (b) 1 : 2 : 5 (c)* 1 : 3 : 5 (d) 1 : 3 : 9
16. A ball is dropped from the top of a building. The ball takes 0.5 s to fall past the 3 m length of a window some
distance from the top of the building. If the velocities of the ball at the top and at the bottom of the window re VT
and VB respectively, then (take g = 10 m/s2):
VB 1
(a)* VT + VB = 12 ms–1 (b) VT – VB = 4.9 ms–1 (c) VB VT = 1ms–1 (d) V  1 ms
T

17. A particle is thrown upwards from ground. It experience a constant resistance force which can produce retar-
dation of 2 m/s2. The ratio of time of ascent to the time of descent is:
2 2 3
(a) 1:1 (b)* (c) (d)
3 3 2

18. Two bikes A and B start from a point. A moves with uniform speed 40 m/s and B starts from rest with uniform
acceleration 2 m/s2. If B starts at t = 0 and A starts from the same point at t = 10 s, then the time during the
jounery in which A was ahead of B is:
(a) 20 s (b) 8 s
(c) 10 s (d)* A was never ahead of B
19. An insect moving along a sreaight line, (without returning) travels in every second distance equal to the magnitude of
time elaspsed. Assuming acceleration to be constant, and the insect starts at t = 0. Find the magnitude of initial
velocity of insect.
1 1 3
(a)* unit (b) unit (c) unit (d) 1 unit
2 4 2
20. A stone is dropped from the top of building and at the same time a second stone is thrown vertically upward from
the bottom of the building with a speed of 20 ms–1. They pass each othe 3 seconds later. Find the height of the
building.
(a) 40 m (b)* 60 m (c) 65 m (d) 80 m
21. If a particle takes t second less and acquires a velocity of v ms more in falling through the same distance
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(starting from rest) on two planets where the accelerations due to gravity are 2 g and 8 g respectively then :
(a) v = 2 gt (b)* v = 4 gt (c) v = 5 gt (d) v = 16 gt

Section - B (Multiple Choice Type)

1. Mark the correct statements :

(a) Average velocity of a particle moving on a straight line was zero in a time interval but its instantaneous
velocity was never zero in that interval (Consider finite acceleration only)
(b)* Average velocity of a particle was zero in a time interval but its speed was never zero in that interval
(Consider finite acceleration only)
(c)* We can have a situation where magnitude of acceleration is no-zero, but rate of change of speed is zero
(d)* Average speed of particle in a given time interval is always greater than or equal to the magnitude of the
average velocity in the same time interval.
2. Which of the following statements are true for a moving body ?
(a)* If its speed changes, its velocity must change and it must have some acceleration.
(b) If its velocity changes, its speed must change and it must have some acceleration.
(c)* If its velocity changes, its speed may or may not change and it must have some acceleration.
(d) If its speed changes, but direction of motion does not change and its velocity may remain constant.

Section - C (Comprehension Type)

Comprehension # 1
A particle moves along x-axis and its acceleration at any time t is a = 2 sin( t), where t is in seconds and a is in
m/s2. The initial velocity of particle (at time t = 0) is u = 0.
A stone is projected vertically up from the foot of a tower with a speed v0 such that it passes through the top of
the tower at times t1 and t2.

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Q.1 The height of the tower is:
2
 t1  t 2  gt1t 2 g(t1  t 2 ) 4
(a) g   (b)* (c) (d) g t1t2
 2  2 4
Q.2 Tha maximum height attained by the stone is:
g(t1  t 2 ) 2 gt t g(t 12  t 22 )
(a)* (b) 1 2 (c) (d) None
8 2 2
Q.3 The speed v0 of projection is:
 t1  t 2   t1  t 2 
(a) g t1 t 2 (b)* g   (c) g(t1 – t2) (d) g  
 2   2 
Comprehension # 2
Two balls A and B are thrown with same velocity u from the top of a tower. Ball A is thrown vertically upwards
and the ball B is thrown vertically downwards.
Q.4 Choose the correct statement
(a) Ball B reaches the ground with greater velocity (b) Ball A reaches the ground with greater velocity
(c)* Both the balls reach the ground with same velocity (d) Cannot be interpreted
Q.5 If tA and tB are the respective times taken by the balls A and B respectively to reach the ground, then identify
the correct statement
(a)* tA > tB (b) tA = tB (c) tA < tB (d) Cannot be interpreted
Q.6 If tA = 6 s and tB = 2 s, then the height of the tower is
(a) 80 m (b)* 60 m (c) 45 m (d) none of these
Q.7 The velocity of u of each ball is
(a) 10 ms–1 (b) 15 ms–1 (c)* 20 ms–1 (d) none of these
Q.8 If a ball C is thrown with the same velocity but in the horizontal direction from the top of the tower, then it
will reach the ground in time tc equal to
(a) 4 s (b)* 3.46 s (c) 4.2 s (d) none of these
Comprehension # 3
A particle is moving along x-axis. Its inital velocity is 40 m/s along positive x-axis and an acceleration of
10m/s2 along negative x-axis. Particle starts from x = 10m.
Q.9 At what time the velocity of particle is zero ?
(a) 6 sec (b)* 4 sec (c) 8 sec (d) 2 sec
Q.10 What is the maximum x co-ordinate of particle (in positive direction) ?
(a)* 90 m (b) 60 m (c) 120 m (d) 30 m
Q.11 What is the velocity of particle at origin ?
(a) 30 2 m / sec (b) 20 2 m / sec (c) 20 2 m / sec (d)* 30 2 m / sec
Q.12 At what time the particle is at origin ?
(a)* 4  3 2 sec (b) 4  2 sec (c) 2  3 2 sec (d) 3  2 2 sec

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