Motion In plane

(Assignment)
1. A heavy and a lighter body are dropped from the top of a tower. Which will reach the ground first? (a)
lighter one (b) heavier one (c) both at same time (d) cannot be predicted
2. A projectile is thrown with a velocity u. The maximum possible range of the projectile is: (a) 4u 2 /g (b)
u2 /g (c) 2u2 /g (d) u2 /2g
3. A bullet is fired horizontally with a velocity of 200m/s .If acceleration due to gravity is 10m/s in first
second it will fall through a height of: (a) 5m (b) 10m (c) 20m (d) 200m
4. The projectile goes farthest away from the earth, when the angle of projection is (a) 0 0 (b) 450 (c) 900
(d)1800
5. Maximum and minimum magnitudes of the resultant of two vectors of magnitudes P and Q are in the
ratio 3:1. Which is true? (a) P=2Q (b) 2P= Q (c) PQ=1 (d) None of these
6. 100 coplanar forces each equal to 10 N act on a body. Each force makes angle /50 with the preceding
force. What is the resultant of the forces? (a) 1000N (b) 500N (c) 250N (d) None
7. The position vector of particle changes from 10 m east to 10 m north in one second. What is the average
velocity of the particle? (a) 20m/s (b) 5m/s (c) 14.14m/s (d) 25m/s
8. A projectile has time of flight t and range R.If the time of flight is doubled, what happens to the range?
(a) R/4 (b) R/2 (c) 2R (d) 4R
9. A projectile is projected with a linear momentum P making angle z with the horizontal .The change in
momentum of the projectile on return to the ground will be (a) 2P (b) 2pcosz (c) 2psinz (d) 2ptanz
10. At what angle do the forces R+S and R-S act so that the resultant is (3R2 + S2 )1/2 (600 )
11. Four forces are acting on a point .The first 200N is due north, the second is 100N due south, the third is
500N due east and the fourth force is 300N due west. What is the magnitude and direction of the
resultant force (223N, tan=1/2)
12. A fighter jet plane is flying at a height of 500 m with a velocity of 360 km/h .It releases a bomb when
200 m away from the enemy camp. Will the bomb hit the camp? (g=10m/s2 )
13. A hunter aims his gun at a monkey sitting on a tree. A the instant bullet leaves the barrel, the monkey
drops down. Will the bullet hit the monkey
14. A projectile is fired horizontally with a velocity of 98m/s from the top of the hill 490 m high. Find (a)
velocity with which the projectile strikes the ground (b) time taken to reach the ground (c) distance of
the target from the hill (138.57m/s, 10 s, 980m)
15. A projectile is projected with kinetic energy 50J.If it has the maximum possible horizontal range, and
then calculate its kinetic energy at the highest point. (25J)
16. A bullet is fired from a rifle attains a maximum height of 25m and crosses a range of 200m.Find the
angle of projection (260 34/ )
17. A man throws a ball vertically upwards and it rises through 20 m and returns to his hands. Find the
initial velocity of the ball and time for which the ball remained in air. (20m/s, 4s)
18. A projectile of mass 50 g is fired with a velocity 10m/s at an angle of 300 with the horizontal. Calculate
(a) linear momentum (b) Kinetic energy of the projectile at highest point (0.43 kg m/s, 1.875J)
19. Calculate the angular displacement of the particle when it completes 240 revolutions. (480)
20. A particle revolves in a circle of radius 0.1 m making 300 rpm. Calculate its linear velocity and
centripetal acceleration (m/s 102 m/s2 )
21. Calculate the angular speed of the hour hand of a clock. Define angular acceleration.
22. A wheel revolving at 300 rpm is slow down uniformly to 240 rpm while making 20 revolutions. Find (a)
angular acceleration (b) time taken for this (-0.45 rad/s2 ,4.44s)
23. A scooter is moving with a speed of 15m/s on a circular track of radius 50m.Its speed is increasing at the
rate of 1m/s2 .Calculate its acceleration (4.61 m/s2 )
24. A vector Q which ahs a magnitude of 8 is added to a vector P which lies along x axis .The resultant of
two vectors lies along y axis and has magnitude twice that of P.Find P. (8/51/2 )
25. A bullet moving with a speed of 100m/s can just penetrate two planks of equal thickness. Find the
number of planks penetrated by the bullet if speed is doubled (8)
 26. A particle is thrown vertically upward. Its velocity at half of the height is 10m/s. Find the maximum
height attained by it (10m)
27. A particle is moving eastwards with a velocity of 5m/s .In 10s,the velocity changes to 5m/s northwards.
Find the average acceleration in this time. (1/21/2 )
28. The sum of the magnitudes of two forces acting at appoint is 18 and the magnitude of their resultant is
12.If the resultant is at 900 with the force of smaller magnitude, Find the magnitude of forces. (13 and 5)
29. Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 20 m/s .A man rides a bicycle with a speed of 10m/s in the
north to south direction. What is the direction in which he would hold his umbrella?
30. Can you associate vectors with (a) the length of a wire bent into a loop (b) plane area (c) a sphere ?
Explain.
31. A boat which has a speed of 5 km/hr in still water crosses a river of width 1km along the shortest
possible path in 15 minutes. The velocity of the river in the shortest time. The velocity of river water in
km/hr is (3 km/hr)
32. Four persons K, L, M, N are initially at the four corners of a square of side d. Each person now moves
with a uniform speed V in such a way that K always moves directly towards L, L directly towards M, M
directly towards N, and N directly towards K. The four persons will meet at a time ………….. (d/v)
(Assertion and Reason Questions)
Directions : Each of these questions contain two statements, Assertion and Reason. Each of these questions also
has four alternative choices, only one of which is the correct answer. You have to select one of the codes (a),
(b), (c) and (d) given below.
(a) Assertion is correct, reason is correct; reason is a correct explanation for assertion.
(b) Assertion is correct, reason is correct; reason is not a correct explanation for assertion
(c) Assertion is correct, reason is incorrect
(d) Assertion is incorrect, reason is correct.

Q.1. Assertion : If dot product and cross product of A and B are zero, it implies that one of the
vector A and B must be a null vector
Reason : Null vector is a vector with zero magnitude.

Q.2. Assertion : The scalar product of two vectors can be zero.

Reason : If two vectors are perpendicular to each other, their scalar product will be zero.

Q.3. Assertion: A physical quantity cannot be called as a vector if its magnitude is zero.
Reason: A vector has both magnitude and direction.

Q.4. Assertion : Minimum number of non-equal vectors in a plane required to give zero resultant is three.
Reason : If sum of vectors A+B+C=0 , then they must lie in one plane.

Q.5. Assertion : If A.B= B.C, then A may not always be equal to C.

Reason : The dot product of two vectors involves cosine of the angle between the two vectors.

Q.6. Assertion : If a body of mass m is projected upwards with a speed V making an angle 􀁔 with the vertical,
than the change in the momentum of the body along X–axis is zero.
Reason : Mass of the body remains constant along X–axis

Q.7. Assertion : The magnitude of velocity of two boats relative to river is same. Both boats start
simultaneously from same point on one bank may reach opposite bank simultaneously moving along different
paths.
Reason : For boats to cross the river in same time. The component of their velocity relative to river in direction
normal to flow should be same.
Q.8. Assertion : Two balls of different masses are thrown vertically upward with same speed. They will pass
through their point of projection in the downward direction with the same speed.
Reason : The maximum height and downward velocity attained at the point of projection are independent of the
mass of the ball.

Q.9. Assertion : τ=r x F and τ=F x r

Reason : Cross product of vectors is commutative.

Q.10. Assertion : If there were no gravitational force, the path of the projected body always be a straight line.
Reason : Gravitational force makes the path of projected body always parabolic.

Case Study Question:

Projectile motion is a form of motion in which an object or particle is thrown with some initial velocity near the
earth’s surface and it moves along a curved path under the action of gravity alone. The path followed by a
projectile is called its trajectory, which is shown below. When a projectile is projected obliquely, then its
trajectory is as shown in the figure below.

Here velocity u is resolved into two components, we get (a) u cosθ along OX and (b) u sinθ along OY .

(i) The example of such type of motion is

(a) motion of car on a banked road
(b) motion of boat in sea
(c) a javelin thrown by an athlete
(d) motion of ball thrown vertically upward

(ii) The acceleration of the object in horizontal direction is

(a) constant
(b) decreasing
(c) increasing
(d) zero

(iii) The vertical component of velocity at point H is

(a) maximum
(b) zero
(c) double to that at O
(d) equal to horizontal component
(iv) A cricket ball is thrown at a speed of 28 m/s in a direction 30° with the horizontal. The time taken by
the ball to return to the same level will be
(a) 2.0 s
(b) 3.0 s
(c) 4.0 s
(d) 2.9 s

(v) In above case, the distance from the thrower to the point where the ball returns to the same level will
be
(a) 39 m
(b) 69 m
(c) 68 m
(d) 72m