CLASS IX Physics Revision Worksheet

MOTION
1. Draw velocity- time graphs when
i. -When body is moving with uniform velocity
ii. -When the body is moving with a uniform acceleration
iii. -When the Body is moving with a variable acceleration.
2. A bus starting from rest moves with a uniform acceleration of 0.1 m s-2 for 2 minutes. Find (i) the speed acquired, (ii)
the distance travelled
3. A body starts rolling over a horizontal surface with an initial velocity of 0.5m/s2. Due to friction, its velocity decreases at
the rate of 0.05 m/s2. How much time will it take for the body to stop?
4. A body thrown vertically upwards reaches a maximum height h. it then returns to ground. Calculate the distance travelled
and the displacement.
5. Draw distance- time graphs when
i. -When the body is at rest
ii. -When the body is in uniform motion
iii. -When the body is in non-uniform motion or accelerated motion
iv. -When the body is in retarded motion
6. A body starts from rest and moves with a uniform acceleration of 5m/s2 for 5s and then it moves with a constant velocity
for 4s. Later it slows down and comes to rest in 5s. Draw the velocity- time graph for the motion of the body and answer the
following questions:
a. What is the maximum velocity attained by the body?
b. What is the distance travelled during this period of acceleration?
c. What is distance travelled when the body was moving with constant velocity?
d. What is the retardation of the body while slowing down?
e. What is the distance travelled by retarding?
f. What is the total distance travelled?
7. a) A body is moving along a circular path of radius R. What will be the distance and displacement of the body when it
completes half a revolution?
b) Derive the relation v2 - u2 = 2as graphically.
8. A farmer moves along the boundary of a square field of side 15 m in 60 seconds. What will be the magnitude of
displacement of the farmer at the end of 2 min 30 sec?
9. A body is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity 19.6 m/s. What is the maximum height reached by the body and
time taken to reach the highest point? (take g = 9.8 m/s2)
10. A car travels 60 km at a uniform speed of 30km/h and the next 40 km at a uniform speed of 20 km/h. Find the average
speed.
11. Define uniform circular motion, why it is called an accelerated motion?
12. 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?
13. 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?
14. 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?
15. 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?
16. 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.
17. 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.

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 FORCE AND LAWS OF MOTION

18. The velocity of a body of mass 10 Kg increases from 4m/s to 8 m/s when a force acts on it for 2 sec.
-What is the momentum before the force acts?
-What is the momentum after the force acts?
-What is the gain in momentum per second?
-What is the value of force?
19. (i) State Newton’s II Law. Derive the mathematical expression for the same. (ii) Which has more inertia a rubber ball or
an iron ball of same size?
20. Two bodies have same momentum. Which will have greater kinetic energy- heavier body or lighter body? Give relation
between kinetic energy and momentum.

21. Why it is difficult to hold a hose for a fireman when it ejects large amount of water.
22. When a horse suddenly starts running, a careless rider falls backwards, explain why.
23. Why some of the leaves may get detached from a tree if we vigorously shake its branch.
24. Two bodies A and B of same masses are moving with velocities ‘v’ and ‘4v’ respectively. Find the ratio of their
momentum.
25. An unloaded truck weighing 2000 kg has a maximum acceleration of 0.5 m/s2. What is the maximum acceleration when
it is carrying a load of 2000 kg?
26. A constant force acts on an object of mass 5 kg for a duration of 2 s. It increases the object’s velocity from 3 m s–1 to 7
m s-1. Find the magnitude of the applied force. Now, if the force was applied for a duration of 5 s, what would be the
final velocity of the object?
27. A motorcar is moving with a velocity of 108 km/h and it takes 4 s to stop after the brakes are applied. Calculate the
force exerted by the brakes on the motorcar if its mass along with the passengers is 1000 kg.
28. A force of 5 N gives a mass m1 , an acceleration of 10 m s–2 and a mass m2 , an acceleration of 20 m s-2 . What
acceleration would it give if both the masses were tied together?
29. A 8000 kg engine pulls a train of 5 wagons, each of 2000 kg, along a horizontal track. If the engine exerts a force of
40000 N and the track offers a friction force of 5000 N, then calculate: (a) the net accelerating force and (b) the
acceleration of the train.
30. A hockey ball of mass 200 g travelling at 10 m s–1 is struck by a hockey stick so as to return it along its original path
with a velocity at 5 m s–1. Calculate the magnitude of change of momentum occurred in the motion of the hockey ball
by the force applied by the hockey stick.
31. A bullet of mass 10 g travelling horizontally with a velocity of 150 m s–1 strikes a stationary wooden block and comes
to rest in 0.03 s. Calculate the distance of penetration of the bullet into the block. Also calculate the magnitude of the
force exerted by the wooden block on the bullet.
32. How much momentum will a dumb-bell of mass 10 kg transfer to the floor if it falls from a height of 80 cm? Take its
downward acceleration to be 10 m s–2 .
33. An object of mass 1 kg travelling in a straight line with a velocity of 10 m s–1 collides with, and sticks to, a stationary
wooden block of mass 5 kg. Then they both move off together in the same straight line. Calculate the total momentum
just before the impact and just after the impact. Also, calculate the velocity of the combined object.
34. The velocity-time graph of a ball of mass 20 g moving along a straight line on a long table is given in Fig.

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GRAVITATION

35. A car falls off a ledge and drops to the ground in 0.5 s. Let g = 10 m s–2.
a. What is its speed on striking the ground?
b. What is its average speed during the 0.5 s?
c. How high is the ledge from the ground?
36. A stone is allowed to fall from the top of a tower 100 m high and at the same time another stone is projected vertically
upwards from the ground with a velocity of 25 m/s. Calculate when and where the two stones will meet.
37. A ball thrown up vertically returns to the thrower after 6 s. Find (a) the velocity with which it was thrown up, (b) the
maximum height it reaches, and (c) its position after 4 s.
38. a) Give one points of difference between mass and weight.
b) State the universal law of gravitation.
c) What happens to the magnitude of the force of gravitation between two objects?
(i) if distance between the objects is tripled?
(ii) if masses of both the objects are doubled?
39. Find the thrust acting on the human body due to atmospheric pressure. Take the surface area of a man of middle size to
be 1.5m2 and atmospheric pressure (1atm) =1.013×105 Pa.
40. Define 1 Pascal, Calculate the pressure exerted by a block of weight 500 N if the surface area in contact is 2.5cm2
41. State the Archimedes principle. Mention the applications of Archimedes principle
42. The milkman in our society started carrying lactometer. His move was well appreciated by the society members.
a. What is the use of lactometer?
b. On what principle it works?
43. The volume of 100g of a solid substance is 25 cm3 and the density of water is 1 g/cm3. Find the density of the substance.
Will it float or sink
44. Calculate the mass of a body whose volume is 2 m3 and density 0.52 g/cm3.
45. A dining hall has dimensions 50m × 15m × 3.5m. Calculate the mass of air in the hall. Given, density of air=1.30kg/m3 .
46. Why does a wooden block float and an iron block sinks when both are placed on the surface of water?
47. The volume of 50g substance is 20cm3. Find the density of the substance. If the density of water is 1 g/cm3, will the
substance float or sink?
48. A block of wood is kept on a tabletop. The mass of wooden block is 5 kg
and its dimensions are 40 cm × 20 cm × 10 cm. Find the pressure exerted
by the wooden block on the table top if it is made to lie on the table top
with its sides of dimensions (a) 20 cm × 10 cm and (b) 40 cm × 20 cm.
Take g =10 m/s2.
49. Radius of an iron sphere is 0.21 cm. If density of iron is 7.80 g/cc,
calculate it’s mass.
50. A man weighs 660 N on the surface of earth. What would be his mass and
weight on the surface of moon? (Take g = 10 m/s2 on the surface of
earth).
51. Give one points of difference between acceleration due to gravity (g) and gravitational constant (G).
52. Calculate the force of gravitation between two objects of masses 120 kg and 80 kg respectively, if they are separated by
distance of 20 cm.(use G = 6.67 X 10-11 Nm2/ kg2)
53. Explain why ship made of steel floats on water but a steel needle sinks.
54. A force of 5x105 N exerted by a truck produces a pressure of 25x105 Pa on the ground. The area of contact of the tyres
with ground is : (a) 0.5m2 (b) 0.75m2 (c) 0.2m2 (d) 5m2
55. A stone is thrown vertically upward with an initial velocity of 40 m/s. Taking g = 10 m/s2, find the maximum height
reached by the stone.
56. A stone released from the top of a tower of height 19.6 m. calculate its velocity just before touching the ground. (g = 9.8
m/s2)
57. Show that the weight on the surface of moon is 1/6th the weight on the surface of earth.

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58. A ball thrown up vertically returns to the thrower after 6 s. Find (i) the velocity with which it was thrown up, (ii) the
maximum height it reaches, and (iii) its position after 4 s.
59. An object is put one by one in three liquids having different densities. The object floats with 2/11, 1/9 and 3/7 parts of their
volume outside the liquid surface in liquids of densities d1, d2 and d3 respectively. Arrange the densities in ascending order
of their magnitudes.
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60. A body of mass 2.0 kg and density 8000 kg/m is completely dipped in a liquid of density 800 kg/m . Find the
force of buoyancy on it.
61. A piece of iron of density 7.8 × 103 kg/m3 and volume 100 cm3 is totally immersed in water. Calculate (a) the
weight of the iron piece in air (b) the upthrust and (c) apparent weight in water.
62. What happens to the gravitational force between two objects if:
a) the masses of both the objects are doubled.
b) the distance between the objects is doubled.
c) The mass of earth is 6 X 1024 kg and that of an artificial satellite is 5 X 103 kg. If the distance between them is 300 km.
calculate the force exerted by earth on it. (G = 6.7 X 10-11 Nm2/kg2)
d) The volume of 60 g substance is 20 cm3. Find the density of the substance. If the density of water is 1000 kg/m 3, will
the substance float or sink?
e) Give reason: Cutting tools or knife have sharper edges.

WORK AND ENERGY

63. An object of mass 50 kg is raised to a height of 10 m above the ground. Find the potential energy of the object at its
highest point. If the object is allowed to fall freely, what is its kinetic energy when it is half way down? Give reason to
justify your answer.
64. What is the work done by the force of gravity on a satellite moving round the earth? Justify your answer.
65. What is transformation of energy? Explain with any two suitable examples.
66. What must be the velocity of a moving body of mass 2 kg so that its K.E. is 25 J?
67. A man drops a stone of mass 2 kg room the top of a building of height 15m when it reaches the ground, find its kinetic
energy.
68. Define 1Kwh. If an electric iron of 1600W is used for 45 min every day , find the electric energy consumed in month of
march.
69. A boy weighing 50 kg climbs up a vertical height of 100 m in 200 seconds. Calculate the a) amount of work done by him
b) potential energy gained by him c) Power of the boy (given that g = 10 m/s2 )
70. Define Power and write its SI unit.
71. If an electric iron of 1200W is used for 30 minutes every day, find electric energy consumed in the month of April.
72. A man drops a stone of mass 2 kg from the top of a building of height 15m, find its kinetic energy, when it reaches the
ground.
73. A car with a speed of 25m/s weighing 900 Kg stops at a distance of 40 metres. Calculate the force exerted and the work
done by the brakes.
74. What is meant by potential energy? Derive the expression for gravitational potential energy of a body of mass m placed at
a height ‘h’ above the surface of the earth
75. Define SI unit of energy. Derive the relation between SI unit and commercial unit of energy.
76. The kinetic energy of an object of mass ‘m’ moving with a velocity of 5m/s is 25 J. What will be its kinetic energy? (i)
When its velocity is doubled. (ii) When its velocity is increased three times.
77. An electric motor of power 100 W is used to drive the stirrer in a water bath. If 50% of the energy supplied to the motor is
spent in stirring the water, calculate the work done on the water in one minute.
78. A mass of 4 kg is dropped from a tower of height 45 m. Calculate
a) the potential energy possessed by the body when it is at the top of the tower
b) the kinetic energy possessed by the body when it is at a height of 35 m the kinetic energy just before hitting the ground
the velocity of the body just before hitting the ground.
79. In a house 5 bulbs of 25 W each are used for 6 hours a day. Calculate the units of electricity consumed in a month of 30
days. Also find the total expenditure if 1 unit electricity costs Rs. 1.50.

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80.

SOUND

81. Why sound waves are called mechanical waves?

82. What do you mean by an echo? State two conditions for hearing a distinct echo.
83. Calculate the wavelength of a sound wave whose frequency is 220 Hz and speed is 440 m/s in a given medium
84. Define the three characteristics of sound
85. A man has an audible range from 20Hz to 20kHz. What are the wave lengths of sound in air corresponding to these two
frequencies? (Speed of sound is 344 m/s)
86. How does the sound produced by a musical instrument, reach your ears? Astronauts need radio telescope to talk to each
other on moon why?
87. Define frequency and amplitude.
88. Calculate the wavelength of a sound wave whose frequency is 220 Hz and speed is 440 m /s in a given medium.

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90. A strong transverse pulse is created in one end of a string. It completes 10 journeys along its length; before fading out.
The initial reading of the stop clock used in the experiment was 25s and the final reading was 75s. If the length of the
string for one journey is L meter, the speed of the pulse through the string?
91. If 2000 ripples produced in 5 sec in a pond find time period and frequency of ripples formation.
92. A sound wave produces 20 compressions and 20 rarefactions in 0.040 seconds. What will be the frequency of the wave?
93. A stone is dropped from a 500 m tall building into a pond. When is sound splash heard? Given g=10 m/s2, speed of sound
= 338 m/s.
94. A boy heard a sound of frequency 100 Hz at a distance of 500 m from the source of sound. What is the time period of
oscillating particles of the medium?
95. A man has an audible range from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. What are the wave lengths of sound in air corresponding to these two
frequencies? (Speed of sound in air is 344 m/s)
96. a) Write any two applications of ultrasound.
b) Draw diagrams to represent - a) wave shape for a low and high pitched sound (b) wave shape for a soft and louder
sound.
c) A man standing 800 metres away from a cliff fires a gun. After how long will he hear its echo? (Speed of sound in
air is 330 m/s)
d) Establish the relationship between speed of sound, its wavelength and frequency.
e) i) If speed of sound in air is 340 m s–1, Calculate its wavelength when frequency is 256 Hz.
97. Calculate the minimum distance required to hear an echo.