1. A mass is hanging on a spring balance which is kept in a lift. The lift ascends with increasing speed.

The spring
balance will show in its reading (a) increase(b) decrease(c) no change (d) change will depend upon velocity
2. A body of mass 2 kg is hung on a spring balance mounted vertically in a lift. If the lift moves up with an acceleration
equal to the acceleration due to gravity, the reading on the spring balance will be
(a) 2 kg(b) 2×g kg (c) 4×g kg(d) 4 kg
3. A monkey is descending from the branch of a tree with a constant acceleration. If the breaking strength of the
branch is 75% of the weight of the monkey, the minimum acceleration with which the monkey can slide down
without breaking the branch is
(a) g (b). 3g/4 (c) g/2 (d) g/4
4.The pendulum hanging from the ceiling of a railway carriage makes an angle 30° with the vertical when it is
√3 g 2
g c)
g
accelerating. The acceleration of the carriage is a) b) √ 3 g d) 3
2 √3 √
5. Two bodies of masses 5 kg and 3 kg respectively are connected to two ends of a light string passing over horizontal
frictionless pulley, The tension in the string is（g=9.8 m/s²)
(a)60N (b) 36.75 N (c) 73.50 N (d) 18 N
6. Consider an elevator moving - downwards with a acceleration a, the force exerted by a passenger of mass m the
floor of the elevator is (a) ma (b) ma- mg (c) mg- ma (d) mg+ ma
7.A force of 50 N is required to push a car on a level road with constant speed of 10 ms-1. The mass of the car is
500kg. What forces should be applied to make the car accelerates 1ms-2
(a) 450 N (b)500N (c) 550N (d)2500 N
8. A 50 kg boy stands on a platform spring scale in a lift that is going down with a constant speed 3 m/ s. If the lift is
brought to rest by a constant deceleration in a distance of 9 m. what does the scale read during this period? (g =9.8
m/s2) (a)500 N (b) 465 N (c)515N (d) zero
9. An aeroplane is flying at a height of 1960 m in horizontal direction with a velocity of 360 km/hr. When it is
vertically above the point. A on the ground, it drops a bomb. The bomb strikes a point B on the ground, then the time
taken by the bomb to reach the ground is- (A) 20 2 sec (B) 20 sec (C) 10 2 sec (D) 10 sec
10. A marble A is dropped vertically; another identical marble B is projected horizontally from the same point at the
same instant (A) A will reach the ground earlier than B (B) B will reach the ground earlier than A (C) both A and B will
reach the ground at the same instant (D) none of the above
11. A street car moves rectilinearly from station A to the next stop B with an acceleration varying according to the law
f = a – bx, where a and b are positive constants and x is its distance from station A. The distance AB is then equal to :
(A) 2a /b (B) a /b (C) a /2b (D) 2a – b
12. In a projectile motion the velocity - (A) is always perpendicular to the acceleration (B) is never perpendicular to
the acceleration (C) is perpendicular to the acceleration for one instant only (D) is perpendicular to the acceleration
for two instants
13. A body is thrown with a velocity of 9.8 m/s making an angle of 30º with the horizontal. It will hit the ground after
a time- (A) 3 s (B) 2 s (C) 1.5 s (D) 1s
14. A projectile thrown with a speed v at an angle  has a range R on the surface of the earth. For same v and , its
range on the surface of moon will be- (A) R/6 (B) 6R (C) R/36 (D) 36 R
15. The acceleration a in ms–2 of a particle is given by a = 3t2 + 2t + 2, where t is the time. If the particle starts out
with a velocity u = 2 ms–1 at t = 0, then find the velocity at the end of 2s. (A) 16 m/s (B) 36 m/s (C) 18 m/s (D) 9 m/s
16. The position coordinates of a particle moving in x-y plane as a function of time t are x=2t2+6t+25; y=t2+2t+1
The speed of the object at t = 10s is approximately (a) 31 (b)51 (c)71 (d) 81
17. Starting from the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side d, three persons P, Q and R travel with same speed u
such that each one always follows the person in front of him. After how much time will they meet each other?
d 2d 2d 2d
(a) (b) (c) (d)
√3 u 3 u √2 u u
18. A student is 50 m behind a bus at rest. As soon as the bus starts with an acceleration of 1 m/s2, the student starts
running to catch the bus with a uniform velocity u. The minimum value of u to catch the bus should be
(a) 4m/s (b) 8m/s (c) 10m/s (d) 12 m/s
19. Two stones are thrown vertically upwards from the same point at an interval of 1 s with the same initial velocity
of 25 m/s. They will meet above the ground at a height of [g= 10 m/s2]
(a)75m (b) 45m (c) 30m (d) 105 m
20. A particle is moving with velocity ⃗v = K(yi+xj), where
K is a constant. The general equation for its path is
(a) y2=x2+constant (b) y2=x+constant (c) y= x2 + constant (d) xy = constant
21. Find the velocity of the hanging block if the velocities of the free ends of the rope are as indicated in the figure.
(a)3/2m/s up (b) 3/2m/s down (c) 1/2m/s up (d) 1/2 m/s down

22. A stretching force of 1000 Newton is applied at one end of a spring balance and an equal stretching force is
applied at the other end at the same time. The reading of the balance will be : (a) 2000 N (b) Zero (c) 1000 N(d)500 N
23. In the given arrangement, n number of equal masses are connected by strings of negligible masses. The tension
in the string connected to nth mass is –

(a) mMg /(nm +M) (b) mMg/ nmM (c) mg (d) mMg/ (mN+M)
24. You are on a friction less horizontal plane. How can you get off if no horizontal force is exerted by pushing against
the surface? (a) by jumping (b) by spitting or sneezing (c) by rolling your body on the surface (d) by running on the
plane
25. Which of the Newton’s law explain difficultly for a fireman to hold a hose pipe, which ejects large amounts of
water at high velocity. (a) Newton’s First law (b) Newton’s Second law (c) Newton’s Third law (d) E = mc2