PHYSICS ASSIGNMENT

Chapter- Newton’s laws of motion

1. Why is static friction called self-adjusting force.

2. A bullet of mass 10g is fired from a gun of mass 1kg with recoil velocity of gun 5m/s. find the muzzle velocity
3. State the law of conservation of linear momentum and derive it from Newton’s second law of motion.
4. State the laws of kinetic friction. Define coefficient of kinetic friction. Is it less than or greater than coefficient of static
friction.
5. What do you mean by angle of friction. What is angle of friction between two surfaces in contact if the coefficient of
friction is 1/√ 3 ?
6. What is the need of banking a circular road?
7. Derive an expression for maximum permissible speed to avoid slipping if the circular track of radius ‘r’ is banked at
angle θ.
8. The coefficient of friction between the ground and wheels of car moving on a horizontal road is 0.5. If the car starts
from rest, what is the minimum distance in which it can acquire a speed of 72 kmh-1? Take g = 10 m/s-2
9. A circular track of radius 300m is banked at an angle of 15°. If the coefficient of friction is 0.2, what is the optimum
speed of race car to avoid wear and tear of its tyres?
10. Is it easy to push or pull? Explain.

Chapter- Work, Power and Energy

11. What is mechanical energy? What are its two forms?
12. Define kinetic energy. Derive an expression for the kinetic energy of a body of mass m moving with velocity v.
13. An elastic spring of force constant k is compressed by an amount x. Show that its potential energy is ½ kx2
14. Show that in case of 1 D elastic collision of two bodies, the relative velocity of separation after the collision is equal to
the relative velocity of approach before the collision.
15. Two bodies of masses m1 and m2 have equal kinetic energies. What is the ratio of the linear momenta?
16. Two ball bearings of mass m each moving in the opposite direction with equal speed v collide head on with each other.
Predict the outcome of the collision, assuming it to be perfectly elastic.
17. A body moves from a point A to b under the action of force. What is the amount of work done? Diagram
18. Two springs of spring constant 1500 N/m and 3000 N/m respectively are stretched with a same force. Find the ratio of
potential energies.
19. Show that the total mechanical energy of a body falling freely under gravity is conserved. Show it graphically.
20. Write difference between conservative and non-conservative forces.

Chapter – System of Particles and Rotational Motion

21. Show that the centre of mass of a system move with a constant velocity, when no external force acts on the system.
22. Prove that the rate of change of angular momentum of a particle is equal to the torque acting on it.
23. Explain why, a person is standing on a rotating table with metal spheres in his hands. If he withdraws his hands to his
chest, what will be the effect on his angular speed?
24. Two solid spheres of the same mass are made of metals of different densities. Which of them has large moment of
inertia about the diameter?
25. The moment of inertia of two rotating bodies A and B are I A and IB (IA > IB) and their angular momenta are equal. Which
one has a greater kinetic energy?
26. A wheel of mass 8kg and radius of gyration 25cm is rotating at 300rpm. What is its moment of inertia?
27. Three mass points m1, m2 and m3 are located at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of length a. what is the moment
of inertia of the system about an axis along the attitude of the triangle passing through m1?
28. A ring of diameter 0.4m and of mass 10kg is rotating about its axis at the rate of 2100rpm. Find (i) moment of inertia
(ii) angular momentum and (iii) rotational K.E. of the ring.
 29. Three masses of 2kg, 4kg and 4kg are placed (I,0,0), (1,1,0) and (0,1,0) respectively. Find the position vector of its
centre of mass.
30. A car is moving at a speed of 72 km/h. The diameter of its wheel is 0.5m. If the wheels are stopped in 20 rotations by
applying brakes, then find the angular retardation produced by the brakes.

Chapter- Gravitation
31. Discuss the variation of g with depth and height.
32. Define orbital velocity of satellite. Obtain an expression for the orbital velocity of a satellite orbiting at height h above
the surface of earth.
33. If the diameter of the earth becomes half its present value but its average density remains unchanged then how would
be the weight of an object on the surface of the earth affected?
34. How much below the surface of the earth does the acceleration due to gravity become 1 % of its value at the earth’s
surface? Radius of the earth = 6400 km
35. What will the required kinetic energy of an object of mass m, so that it may escape?
36. The time period of a satellite in a circular orbit of radius R is T. Find the period of another satellite in a circular orbit of
radius 9R.
37. State newton’s law of gravitation
38. The radii of two planets are R and 2R respectively and their densities p and p/2 respectively. What is the ratio of
acceleration due to gravity at their surfaces?

Chapter – Oscillation

39. Derive an expression for the velocity of a particle executing SHM when is the above particle velocity (i) maximum and
(ii) minimum.
40. Derive the expressions for the kinetic and potential energies of a harmonic oscillator. Hence show that total energy is
conserved in SHM.
41. Draw graphs for (a) Energy vs. time and (b) energy vs. displacement.
42. Derive an expression for its time period of simple pendulum. Does it depend on the mass of the bob?
43. The maximum velocity of a particle, executing simple harmonic motion with an amplitude of 7mm, is 4.4 ms -1. What is
the period of oscillation?
44. What fraction of total energy is kinetic when the displacement of a simple harmonic oscillator is half of its amplitude?
45. Two identical springs of force constant k each are connected in parallel. What will be the equivalent spring constant?
46. A simple harmonic motion is represented by x = 10 sin (20t + 0.5). Write down it’s amplitude, angular frequency,
frequency, time period and initial phase
47. A body oscillates with S.H.M according to the equation: x (t) = 5 cos (2πt +π/4), where t is in sec and x in metres.
Calculate (a)Displacement at t= 0 (b) Time period (c)Initial velocity
48. If the distance y of a point moving on a straight line measured from a fixed origin on it and velocity v are connected by
the relation 4v2 = 25 – y2, then show that motion is Simple harmonic and find its time period.
49. What do you mean by epoch?

Chapter – Mechanical Properties of Fluids

50. State Pascal’s law of transmission of fluid pressure. Explain the working of Hydraulic lift and Hydraulic brakes.
51. Explain how does a body attain a terminal velocity when it is dropped from rest in a viscous medium
52. Define terminal velocity. Derive an expression for it.
53. State and prove Bernoulli’s theorem.
54. Why are the roofs of some houses blown off during a wind storm?
55. Derive an expression for the excess pressure inside a soap bubble.
56. Define coefficient of viscosity.
57. Which fall faster- big rain drops or small rain drops?
58. The terminal velocity of a copper ball of radius 2.0 mm falling through a tank of oil at 20° C is 6.5 cm s -1. Compute the
viscosity of the oil at 20° C. Density of oil = 1.5 ×103 kg m-3, density of copper = 8.9 ×103 kg m-4
59. At what speed will the velocity head of steam of water be 40 cm?
60. Calculate the work done in blowing a soap bubble from a radius of 2 cm to 3 cm. the surface tension of the soap solution
is 30 dyne cm-1.
61. Why two boats moving in parallel directions close to each other get attracted?
62. A capillary tube of radius r is immersed in water and water and water rises in it to a height h. The mass of water in the
capillary tube is 5g. Another tube of radius 2r is immersed in water. Find the mass of water that rise in this tube.