Numerical Problems on Kinematics

1. A car is moving along a straight line OP in Figure. It moves from O to P in 18 s and

returns from P to Q in 6.0 s. What are the average velocity and average speed of
the car in going (a) from O to P? And (b) from O to P and beak to Q? [(a) 20 m s-1,
(b) 20 m s-1 ]

O (0 Km) Q (240 Km) P (360Km)

2. A train 100 m long is moving with a speed of 60 km h -1. In what time shell it cross a
bridge 1 km long? [ 66 s]
3. A bicyclist is traveling along a straight road for the first half time with speed v1 and
for the second half time with speed v2. What is the average speed of the bicyclist?
[(v1 + v2 )/ 2]
4. A person travels along a straight road due east for the first half distance with speed
v1 and the second half distance with speed v2. What is the average speed of the
person? [2v1v2 /v1 + v2]
5. A car covers the first half of the distance between two places at a speed of 40 km h -
1 and second half is 60 km h-1. Calculate the average speed of the car? [48 km h-1]
6. A gun is fired from a distance of 1.2 km from a hill. The echo of the sound is heard
back at the same place after 8 second. Find the velocity of sound? [300 m/s]
7. A train travels 60 kmh-1 for 0.52 hour, 30 kmh-1 for the next 0.24 hour and then 70
kmh-1 for the next 0.71 hour. What is the average speed for the trip? [59.93 kmh-1 ]
8. The motion of the car along y-axis is given by the relation y = t3 – 6t2 + 9t + 5, where
y is in metre and t is in second. Calculate the position, acceleration and total
distance traveled at t = 5 second? [ 25 m, 18 ms-2,28 m ]
9. A ball is dropped from a height of 5 metre on a plane. On bouncing, it rises to a
height of 1.8 metre. Calculate the fractional loss of velocity of ball. The value of g is
not known? [0.4]
10. A body dropped from the top of a tower falls through 40 m during the last two
second of its fall. What is the height of the tower? Given: g = 10 m s-2. [45 m]
11. A ball is dropped from a height of h meter above the ground and at the same instant
another ball is projected upwards from the ground, the two balls meet when the
 upper ball falls through a distance h/3. Prove that the velocities of the two balls
when they meet are in the ratio 2:1.
12. A point traversed half the distance with a velocity v0. The remaining part of the
distance was covered with velocity v1 for half the time, and with velocity v2 for the
other half of the time. Find the mean velocity of the point averaged over the whole
time of the motion. [2v0 (v1 + v2 )/ 2v0 +v1 +v2 ]
13. The reaction time for an automobile driver is 0.7 second. If the automobile can be
decelerated at 5 m s-2, calculate the total distance traveled in coming to stop from
an initial velocity of 30 km h-1, after a signal is observed? [12.77m]
14. A body travels 200 cm in the first two seconds and 220 cm in the next four seconds.
What will be the velocity at the end of seventh second from start? [10 cms-1]
15. A body describes 10 m in the third second of the motion and 28 m in the sixth
second. What distance will be covered by the body in the seventh second of the
motion? [34m]
16. A stone is dropped from the top of a tower 200 m in height and at the same time,
another is projected vertically upwards from the ground with a velocity of 50 m/s.
Find where and when the two will meet? [4s, 121.6 m]
17. The motion of a particle along x-axis given by the equation x = 9 + 5t2, where x is
distance in cm and t is time in second. Find (i) the displacement after 3 second and
5 second (ii) average velocity during the interval from t = 3 second to t = 5 second
(iii) instantaneous velocity at t = 3 second? [(i) 54 cm, 134 cm (ii) 40 cm/s (iii) 30cm
s-1]
18. An object is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 19.6 m/s. Calculate the
distance and displacement of the object after 3 second? [24.5 m,14.7 m]
19. A stone is thrown upwards from the top of a tower 85 m high. It reaches the ground
in 5 second. Calculate (i) the greatest height above the ground (ii) the velocity with
which it reaches the ground and (iii) the time taken to reach the maximum height.
Given : g = 10 m s-2 [(i) 88.2 m, (ii) 42 m/s, (iii) 0.8s]
20. The displacement of a particle moving in one dimension under the action of a
constant force is related to time t by the equation t = √x + 3, where x is in meter and
t is in second. Find the displacement of the particle when its velocity is zero. (zero)
21. A stone is dropped from a balloon at an altitude of 300 m. How long will the stone
take to reach the ground if (a) the balloon is ascending with a velocity of 5 ms-1 (b)
the balloon is descending with a velocity of 5 ms-1 (c) the balloon is stationary? [(a)
8.35s (b) 7.33 s (c) 7.8s]
22. A stone falls from a cliff and travels 34.3 m in the last second before it reaches the
ground. Calculate the height of the cliff. [78.4m]
23. Between two stations, a train accelerates uniformly at first, then moves with
constant speed and finally retards uniformly. If the ratio of times taken is 1 : 8 : 1
and the greatest speed is 60 km h-1, find the average speed over the whole
journey? [54 kmh-1]
24. A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly for 10 s to a velocity of 8 ms -1. It
then runs at a constant velocity and is finally brought to rest in 64 m with a constant
retardation. The total distance covered by the car is 584 m. Find the value of
acceleration, retardation and total time taken? [0.8 ms-2, 0.5 ms-2, 86s]
25. Two balls are thrown simultaneously, A vertically upwards with a speed of 20 m/s
from the ground and B vertically downwards from a height of 40 m with the same
speed and along the same line of motion. At what point do the two balls collide?
(g=9.8 m/s2) [15.1 m above the ground]
26. A stone is dropped from the top of a tall tower and after one second, another stone
is dropped from a balcony 20 m below the top. If both the stones reach the ground
at the same instant, calculate the height of the tower. Given: g = 10 m s -2? [ 31.25m]
27. A body is projected vertically upwards from A, the top of a tower. It reaches the
ground in t1 second. If it is projected vertically downwards from A with the same
velocity, it reaches the ground in t2 second. If it falls freely from A, prove that it
would reach the ground in t1 t 2 second?
28. A stone is dropped from a certain height. After falling for 5 second, the stone breaks
through a pane of the glass and instantaneously losses half of its velocity. If the
stone then takes one more second to reach the ground, determine the height of the
glass above the ground. (g = 10m/s2) (30m)
29. A car starts moving rectilinearly, first with the acceleration 5 m/s2, then uniformly
and then finally, decelerates at the same rate and comes to rest. The total average
velocity during that time is 72 km/h. How long does the car move uniformly? (15s)
30. A, car starting from rest, accelerates at the rate f through a distance s, then
continues at a constant speed for sometime t and then decelerates at the rate f/2 to
come to rest. If the total distance is 5s, then prove that s = ½ f t2.