CHAPTER-2

Motion in a Straight line

I. One mark questions (PART – A):

1. When does an object said to be in motion? (K)

2. What is rectilinear motion? (K)
3. What is meant by path length? (K)
4. Define displacement? (K)
5. What is the position - time graph? (K)
6. Define uniform velocity.
7. Define speed of a body. (K)
8. Define Velocity of a body. (K)
9. Define instantaneous velocity of a body in terms of its average velocity.
10. The average velocity of a body is equal to its instantaneous velocity. What do you conclude by
this? (U)
11. What does the slope of position - time graph represent? (K)
12. What is meant by uniform motion? (K)
13. Define average acceleration. (K)
14. Define instantaneous acceleration of a body in terms of its average acceleration. (U)
15. What does the slope of velocity - time graph represent? (K)
16. What does area under velocity - time graph represent? (K)
17. When does relative velocity of two moving objects zero? (U)
18. What is the acceleration of a body moving with constant velocity? (U)
19. If a car is traveling towards east can its acceleration be west ward? (U)
20. When does an object said to be at rest? (K)
21. A body moving along a circular path with uniform speed. Does it has acceleration? (K)
22. What is position - time graph? (K)
23. What is velocity - time graph? (K)
24. What is acceleration - time graph? (K)
25. Draw the v-t graph of a body thrown vertically upwards. (U)
26. Draw the x-t graph of a body thrown vertically upwards. (U)
27. Draw the v-t graph of a body starting from rest & moving with uniform velocity. (K)
28. What does speedometer of a car measures? (A)
29. Two trains are moving in opposite directions with speeds 20 ms-1& 10 ms-1. The relative
velocity of the trains is: Ans (30 ms-1)
30. What is reaction time in motion? (K)
31. When will the relative velocity of two moving bodies zero? (U)
32. A car starting from rest has an acceleration of 5 ms-2. How fast will it be after 10s.( 50 ms-1)S
33. A body is thrown vertically upward from the surface of the earth. What is the direction of
acceleration of the body? (U)
34. What is free fall? (K)

Two mark questions (PART – B):

1. Distinguish between distance and displacement. (K)

2. Distinguish between speed and velocity. (K)
3. Draw the position - time graph for an object (i) at rest (ii) with uniform motion. (U)
4. Draw the position - time graph for an object (a) moving with positive velocity and (b) Negative
velocity(U)
5. Draw position - time graph for motion with (a) positive acceleration (b) negative acceleration (c)
zero acceleration. (U)
6. Draw velocity - time graphs for motion in (a) positive direction with positive acceleration (b)
negative direction with negative acceleration. (U)
7. 7. Find The displacement (in m) of a particle moving along x - axis given by x = 20t - 10t2 .
Calculate the instantaneous velocity at t = 2s. (S) ( 60 ms-1
8. 8. A ball is thrown vertically upward and it reaches a height of 90 m. Find the velocity with which
it was thrown. Ans 42 m/s (S)
9. 9. Define relative velocity with an example. (K)
10. 10. A car travels with a uniform velocity of 20 m-1.The driver applies the brakes and the car
comes to rest in 10 second. Calculate the retardation. (S) (a = - 2 ms-2)
11. 11. A ball is thrown vertically upwards, at highest point of its path what will be its instantaneous
velocity & acceleration. (U)
12. 12. Two ball different masses (one lighter & other heavier) are thrown vertically with the same
speed u from the top of a tower. Which one will pass through the point of projection in the
downward direction with the greater speed? (U)
13. 13. Can the displacement may be positive negative or zero? Explain. (U)
14. 14. Distinguish between speed and velocity. (K)
15. 15. A body moves along a circular path of radius 2m.What are displacement & distance traveled
by the body for one complete revolution? (S)

Three mark questions (PART – C):

1. a) What is the velocity - time graph? (K) b) Show that area under velocity - time graph is equal to
displacement. (K)
2. a) Define relative velocity of an object w.r.t another. (K) b) Draw position - time graphs of two
objects moving along a straight line when their relative velocity is (i) zero and (ii) non – zero (K)
3. What is the significance of velocity - time graph? (K)
4. What is the significance of displacement - time graph? (K)
5. Derive the equation of motion v = v0 +at(K)
6. A car is moving along a straight line AB= 360m. It move s from A to B in 18 S & returns from B to
A in 6 s. Find the average velocity & average speed. (S)

Five mark questions (PART – D):

1. Derive the equation of motion v2 = v0 2 +2ax using v-t graph. (K)

2. Derive the equation of motion x = v0 t + ½ a t2 using v-t graph. (K)
3. A car moving along a straight highway with speed of 126 km /hour brought to stop within a
distance of 200 m. What is the retardation of the car and how long does it take for the car to
stop? (S)( t = 11.66s)
4. A balloon is ascending with a velocity of 9.8 ms-1, a sand bag is dropped from the balloon when
it is at a height of 39.2m from the ground. Calculate the time taken by bag to reach the ground.
(S) (t = 4 s.)
5. 5. A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly at a rate of 2 ms-1 for 20 second. It then
maintains a constant velocity for 10 second. The brakes are then applied and the car is uniformly
retarded and comes to rest in 5 second. Find the distance travelled. (S)
Ans 900m
6. A stone is dropped from the top of a tower 400 m high and at the same time another stone is
projected upward vertically from the ground with a velocity of 100 ms-
the two stones will meet. (a = 10 ms-2). (S) Ans: x = 320m
7. 7. Two trains are moving in opposite directions. Train A moves east with a speed of 20 ms-1 and
train B moves west with a speed of 30 ms-1 . What is the (i) relative velocity of B w.r.t A and (ii)
the relative velocity of ground w.r.t B. (iii) A monkey is running on the roof of train A against its
motion with a velocity of 10 ms-1 w.r.t train A. What is the velocity of the monkey as observed
by a man standing on the ground? (S) A body is thrown vertically up from the top of a building
with a velocity of 10 ms-1 It reaches the ground in 5 s. Find the height of the building and the
velocity with which the body reaches the ground. (g = 10 ms-2).(S) (h = 75 m).
8. A ball is thrown with a velocity 30 ms-1 from the ground. How high it will rise. Calculate the time
taken to reach the ground. (g = 10 ms-2). (S) (Total time = 6 s)