Class 9th Chapter: Motion

INTEXT QUESTIONS (By - Mr. Hitesh)

Q1. An object has moved through a distance. Can it have zero displacement? If yes, support your
answer with an example.
Ans. Yes, an object can have zero displacement even if it has moved through a distance. For Example:
A person moving around a circular track with same initial and final points.
Q2. A farmer moves along the boundary of a square field of side 10m in 40 s. What will be the
magnitude of displacement of the farmer at the end of 2 minutes 20 seconds from his initial
position?
Q3. Which of the following is true for displacement? (a) It cannot be zero. (b) Its
magnitude is greater than the distance travelled by the object.
Ans. None of the statement (a) or (b) is true for displacement.

Q4. Distinguish between speed and velocity.

Ans. (a) Speed is the rate of change of distance but velocity is the rate of change of displacement.
(b) Speed is a scalar quantity, but Velocity is a vector quantity.
(c) Speed can never be negative, but velocity can be negative.

Q5. Under what condition(s) is the magnitude of average velocity of an object equal to its
average speed?
Ans. Since average speed is the total distance travelled in a time frame and velocity is the
total displacement in the given time, the magnitude of average velocity and average speed
will be the same when the total distance travelled is equal to the displacement.

Q6. What does the odometer of an automobile measure?

Ans. The odometer measures the distance travelled by an automobile.

Q7. What does the path of an object look like when it is in uniform motion?
Ans. The path of an object in uniform motion is a straight line.

Q8. During an experiment, a signal from a spaceship reached the ground station in five
minutes. What was the distance of the spaceship from the ground station? The signal
travels at the speed of light, that is, 3 × 108 m/s.
Q9. When will you say a body is in (i) uniform acceleration? (ii) non-uniform acceleration?
Ans. Uniform Acceleration: When the velocity of an object changes equally in equal intervals
of time.
Non-Uniform Acceleration: When the velocity of an object changes equally but not at equal
intervals of time.

Q10. A bus decreases its speed from 80 km h–1 to 60 km h–1 in 5 s. Find the acceleration of
the bus.

Q11. A train starting from a railway station and moving with uniform acceleration attains
a speed 40 km h–1 in 10 minutes. Find its acceleration.

Q12. What is the nature of the distance-time graphs for uniform and non-uniform motion
of an object?
Ans. For uniform motion, the distance-time graph is a straight line. On the other hand, the
distance-time graph of an object in non-uniform motion is not a straight line.

Q13. What can you say about the motion of an object whose distance-time graph is a
straight line parallel to the time axis?
Ans. The object is said to be stationary.

Q14. What can you say about the motion of an object if its speed-time graph is a straight
line parallel to the time axis?
Ans. The object is in uniform motion.

Q15. What is the quantity which is measured by the area occupied below the velocity-
time graph?
Ans. Displacement is the quantity which is measured by the area under the velocity-time
graph.

Q16. A bus starting from rest moves with a uniform acceleration of 0.1 m s-2 for 2 minutes.
Find (a) the speed acquired, (b) the distance travelled.
Q17. A train is travelling at a speed of 90 km h–1. Brakes are applied so as to produce a
uniform acceleration of –0.5 m s-2. Find how far the train will go before it is brought to
rest.

Q18. A trolley, while going down an inclined plane, has an acceleration of 2 cm s-2. What
will be its velocity 3 s after the start?

Q19. A racing car has a uniform acceleration of 4 m s-2. What distance will it cover in 10 s
after start?
Q20. A stone is thrown in a vertically upward direction with a velocity of 5 m s-1. If the
acceleration of the stone during its motion is 10 m s–2 in the downward direction, what
will be the height attained by the stone and how much time will it take to reach there?

NCERT BACK QUESTIONS:

Q1. An athlete completes one round of a circular track of diameter 200 m in 40 s. What
will be the distance covered and the displacement at the end of 2 minutes 20 s?
Q2. Joseph jogs from one end A to the other end B of a straight 300 m road in 2 minutes
30 seconds and then turns around and jogs 100 m back to point C in another 1 minute.
What are Joseph’s average speeds and velocities in jogging (a) from A to B and (b) from A
to C?

Q3. Abdul, while driving to school, computes the average speed for his trip to be 20 km h–1
. On his return trip along the same route, there is less traffic and the average speed is 30
km h–1. What is the average speed for Abdul’s trip?
Q.4 A motorboat starting from rest on a lake accelerates in a straight line at a constant
rate of 3.0 m s–2 for 8.0 s. How far does the boat travel during this time?
Q.5 A driver of a car travelling at 52 km h–1 applies the brakes and accelerates uniformly in
the opposite direction. The car stops in 5 s. Another driver going at 3 km h–1 in another car
applies his brakes slowly and stops in 10 s. On the same graph paper, plot the speed
versus time graphs for the two cars. Which of the two cars travelled farther after the
brakes were applied?
Q6. Fig 8.11 shows the distance-time graph of three objects A, B and C. Study the graph
and answer the following questions: (a) Which of the three is travelling the fastest? (b)
Are all three ever at the same point on the road? (c) How far has C travelled when B
passes A? (d) How far has B travelled by the time it passes C?
Q7. A ball is gently dropped from a height of 20 m. If its velocity increases uniformly at the
rate of 10 m s-2, with what velocity will it strike the ground? After what time will it strike
the ground?

Q8. The speed-time graph for a car is shown in Fig. 8.12. (a) Find how far does the car
travel in the first 4 seconds. Shade the area on the graph that represents the distance
travelled by the car during the period. (b) Which part of the graph represents uniform
motion of the car?
Q9. State which of the following situations are possible and give an example for each of
these: (a) an object with a constant acceleration but with zero velocity (b) an object
moving with an acceleration but with uniform speed. (c) an object moving in a certain
direction with an acceleration in the perpendicular direction.

Ans. (a) It is possible: when a body is released from a height, its initial velocity is zero, but
acceleration g= 10 ms-2.
(b) It is possible: acceleration implies an increase or decrease in speed, and uniform speed
implies that the speed does not change over time Circular motion is an example of an object
moving with acceleration but with uniform speed.
(c) It is possible: for an object accelerating in a circular trajectory, the acceleration is
perpendicular to the direction of motion of the object.

Q10. An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 42250 km. Calculate its
speed if it takes 24 hours to revolve around the earth.