Physics

Kinematics

MBBS - 01 Manish Singh Tak (Masti Sir)

HCV
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HCV 21.
A police jeep is chasing a culprit going on a motorbike. The motorbike crosses a turning at a speed of 72 km/h.
The jeep follows it at a speed of 90 km/h, crossing the turning ten seconds later than the bike. Assuming that they
travel at constant speeds, how far from the turning will the jeep catch up with the bike ?
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HCV 27.
A healthy young man standing at a distance of 7 m from a 11.8 m high building sees a kid slipping from the top
floor. With what speed (assumed uniform) should he run to catch the kid at the arms height (1.8 m) ?
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HCV 29.
A ball is dropped from a height. If it takes 0.200 s to cross the last 6 m before hitting the ground, find the height
from which it was dropped. Take g = 10 m/𝑠𝑠 2 .
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HCV 30.
A ball is dropped from a height of 5 m onto a sandy floor and penetrates the sand up to 10 cm before
coming to rest. Find the retardation of the ball in sand assuming it to be uniform.
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HCV 31.
An elevator is descending with uniform acceleration. To measure the acceleration, a person in the elevator drops a
coin at the moment the elevator starts. The coin is 6 ft above the floor of the elevator at the time it is dropped. The
person observes that the coin strikes the floor in 1 second. Calculate from these data the acceleration of the elevator.
Take g = 32ft/𝑠𝑠 2
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HCV 36.
Figure (3-E8) shows a 11.7 ft wide ditch with the approach roads at an angle of 15° with the horizontal.
With what minimum speed should a motorbike be moving on the road so that it safely crosses the ditch ? Assume that
the length of the bike is 5 ft, and it leaves the road when the front part runs out of the approach road. Take g = 32ft/𝑠𝑠 2
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HCV 37.
A person standing on the top of a cliff 171 ft high has to throw a packet to his friend standing on the ground 228
ft horizontally away. If he throws the packet directly aiming at the friend with a speed of 15 ft/s, how short will
the packet fall ?Take g = 32ft/𝑠𝑠 2
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HCV 42.
A staircase contains three steps each 10 cm high and 20 cm wide (figure 3-E9). What should be the minimum
horizontal velocity of a ball rolling off the uppermost plane so as to hit directly the lowest plane ?
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HCV 44.
The benches of a gallery in a cricket stadium are 1 m wide and 1m high. A batsman strikes the ball at a level
one meter above the ground and hits a mammoth sixer. The ball starts at 35 m/s at an angle of 53° with the horizontal.
The benches are perpendicular to the plane of motion and the first bench is 110 m from the batsman. On which bench
will the ball hit ?
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HCV 50.
Two friends A and B are standing a distance x apart in an open field and wind is blowing from A to B.
A beats a drum and B hears the sound 𝑡𝑡1 time after he sees the event. A and B interchange their positions and the
experiment is repeated. This time B hears the drum 𝑡𝑡2 time after he sees the event. Calculate the velocity of sound in
still air v and the velocity of wind u. Neglect the time light takes in travelling between the friends.
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HCV Solved Example 20.

Three particles A, B and C are situated at the vertices of an equilateral triangle ABC of side d at t = 0. Each of the
particles moves with constant speed v. A always has its velocity along AB, B along BC and C along CA.
At what time will the particles meet each other ?
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HCV 52.
Six particles situated at the corners of a regular hexagon of side a move at a constant speed v. Each particle
maintains a direction towards the particle at the next corner. Calculate the time the particles will take to meet each
other.
I.E.Irodov
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I.E.Irodov 1.1
A motorboat going downstream overcame a raft at a point 𝐴𝐴; 𝜏𝜏 = 60 min later it turned back and after some
time passed the raft at a distance 𝑙𝑙 = 6.0 km from the point 𝐴𝐴. Find the flow velocity assuming the duty of
the engine to be constant.
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I.E.Irodov 1.8
Two boats, 𝐴𝐴 and 𝐵𝐵, move away from a buoy anchored at the middle of a river along the mutually
perpendicular straight lines: the boat 𝐴𝐴 along the river, and the boat 𝐵𝐵 across the river. Having moved off an
equal distance from the buoy the boats returned. Find the ratio of times of motion of boats 𝜏𝜏𝐴𝐴 /𝜏𝜏𝐵𝐵 if the velocity
of each boat with respect to water is 𝜂𝜂 = 1.2 times greater than the stream velocity.
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I.E.Irodov 1.9
A boat moves relative to water with a velocity which is 𝑛𝑛 = 2.0 times less than the river flow velocity. At what
angle to the stream direction must the boat move to minimize drifting?
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I.E.Irodov 1.13
Point 𝐴𝐴 moves uniformly with velocity 𝑣𝑣 so that the vector 𝐯𝐯 is continually "aimed" at point 𝐵𝐵 which in its turn
moves rectilinearly and uniformly with velocity 𝑢𝑢 < 𝑣𝑣. At the initial moment of time 𝐯𝐯 ⊥ 𝐮𝐮 and the points are
separated by a distance 𝑙𝑙. How soon will the points converge?
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I.E.Irodov 1.15
An elevator car whose floor-to-ceiling distance is equal to 2.7 m starts ascending with constant acceleration
1.2 m/s 2 ; 2.0 s after the start a bolt begins falling from the ceiling of the car. Find:
(a) the bolt's free fall time;
(b) the displacement and the distance covered by the bolt during the free fall in the reference frame fixed to the
elevator shaft.
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I.E.Irodov 1.16
Two particles, 1 and 2 , move with constant velocities 𝑣𝑣1 and 𝑣𝑣2 along two mutually perpendicular straight
lines toward the intersection point 𝑂𝑂. At the moment 𝑡𝑡 = 0 the particles were located at the distances 𝑙𝑙1 and 𝑙𝑙2
from the point 𝑂𝑂. How soon will the distance between the particles become the smallest? What is it equal to?
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I.E.Irodov 1.17
From point 𝐴𝐴 located on a highway (Fig. 1.2) one has to get by car as soon as possible to point 𝐵𝐵 located in the
field at a distance 𝑙𝑙 from the highway. It is known that the car moves in the field 𝜂𝜂 times slower than on the
highway. At what distance from point 𝐷𝐷 one must turn off the highway?
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I.E.Irodov 1.33
A cannon fires successively two shells with velocity 𝑣𝑣0 = 250 m/s; the first at the angle 𝜃𝜃1 = 60∘ and the
second at the angle 𝜃𝜃2 = 45∘ to the horizontal, the azimuth being the same. Neglecting the air drag, find the
time interval between firings leading to the collision of the shells.
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I.E.Irodov 1.34
A balloon starts rising from the surface of the Earth. The ascension rate is constant and equal to 𝑣𝑣0 . Due to the
wind the balloon gathers the horizontal velocity component 𝑣𝑣𝑥𝑥 = 𝑎𝑎𝑎𝑎, where 𝑎𝑎 is a constant and 𝑦𝑦 is the height
of ascent. Find how the following quantities depend on the height of ascent:
(a) the horizontal drift of the balloon 𝑥𝑥(𝑦𝑦);
(b) the total, tangential, and normal accelerations of the balloon.
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I.E.Irodov 1.35
A particle moves in the plane 𝑥𝑥𝑥𝑥 with velocity 𝐯𝐯 = 𝑎𝑎𝐢𝐢 + 𝑏𝑏𝑏𝑏𝐣𝐣, where 𝐢𝐢 and 𝐣𝐣 are the unit vectors of the 𝑥𝑥 and 𝑦𝑦
axes, and 𝑎𝑎 and 𝑏𝑏 are constants. At the initial moment of time the particle was located at the point 𝑥𝑥 = 𝑦𝑦 = 0.
Find:
(a) the equation of the particle's trajectory 𝑦𝑦(𝑥𝑥);
(b) the curvature radius of trajectory as a function of 𝑥𝑥.
Jee Advance
 Question

1. A tr ain is moving along a str aight line with a constant acceler ation a. A boy standing in the tr ain throws a
ball for war d with a speed of 10 m/s, at an angle of 60° to the hor izontal. The boy has to move for war d by 1.15
m inside the tr ain to catch the ball back at the initial height. The acceler ation of the tr ain, in m/ 𝑠𝑠 2 , is
[IIT-JEE 2011]
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2. Airplanes A and B are flying with constant velocity in the same vertical plane at angles 30° and 60° with
respect to the horizontal respectively as shown in figure. The speed of A is 100 3 m/s. At time t = 0 s, an
observer in A finds B at a distance of 500 m. This observer sees B moving with a constant velocity
perpendicular to the line of motion of A. If at t = 𝑡𝑡0 , A just escapes being hit by B, 𝑡𝑡0 in seconds is
[JEE Advanced-2014]
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3. Starting at time t = 0 from the origin with speed 1 ms −1 , a particle follows a two-dimensional trajectory in
𝑥𝑥 2
the 𝑥𝑥 − 𝑦𝑦 plane so that its coordinates are related by the equation 𝑦𝑦 = . The 𝑥𝑥 and 𝑦𝑦 components of its
2
acceleration are denoted by 𝑎𝑎𝑥𝑥 and 𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑦 , respectively. Then [JEE Advanced-2020]

(A) ax = 1 ms −2 implies that when the particle is at the origin, ay = 1 ms −2

(B) ax = 0 implies ay = 1 ms −2 at all times
(C) at t = 0, the particle's velocity points in the x -direction
(D) ax = 0 implies that at t = 1 s, the angle between the particle's velocity and the x axis is 45∘
HCV Answers
Irodov Answers
 JA Answers

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