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Motion in a Straight Line

01. A boy goes 10m towards north, 20m towards east, then displacement is
(a) 22.5m (b) 25m (c) 25.5m (d) 30m
02. A car moves from X to Y with uniform speed vu and returns to Y with uniform speed vd. The average
speed for this round trip is

(a) (b) (c) (d)

03. A car covers the first half of the distance between two places at 40km/h and other half at 60km/h. The
average speed of the car is
(a) 40km/h (b) 48km/h (c) 50km/h (d) 60km/h
04. A car moves a distance of 200 m. It covers the first half of the distance at speed 40 km/h and the second half of
the distance at speed v. If  the average speed is 48 km/h, then the value of v is-
(a) 56km/h (b) 60km/h (c) 50km/h (d) 48km/h
05. If a car covers 2/5th of total distance with v1speed and 3/5th distance with v2 then average speed is

(a) (b) (c) (d)

06. A person moves 30m north and then 20m towards east and finally m in south-west direction.
Then displacement of the person from the origin will be
(a) 10m along north (b) 10m along south (c) 10 m along west (d) zero
07. A bus travelling the first one third distance at a speed of 10km/h, the next one third at 20km/h and the last one
third at 60km/h. The average speed of the bus is
(a) 9km/h (b) 16km/h (c) 18km/h (d) 48km/h
08. The velocity of an object moving rectilinearly is given as a function of time ¸where v is m/s
and t is in seconds. The average velocity of particle between t = 0 to t = 2 seconds is
(a) 0 (b) -2m/s (c) -4m/s (d) 8m/s
09. The velocity of a particle is . If its position is at ¸then its displacement after
unit time is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
10. A particle located at x = 0 at time t =0, starts moving along with the positive x-direction with a
velocity ‘v’ that varies as . The displacement of the particle varies with time as
(a) (b) t (c) (d)
11. The motion of particle along a straight line is describes by equation: where x in metre
and t in second. The retardation of the particle when its velocity becomes zero, is
(a) (b) zero (c) (d)
12. A body starts from rest and is uniformly accelerated. for 30 s. The distance travelled in the first 10s is  , next
10 s is   and the last 10 s is  . Then   is the same as
(a) 1:2:4 (b) 1:2:5 (c) 1:3:5 (d) 1:3:9
13. A particle moves along a straight line OX. At a time t (in seconds) the distance x (in meters) of the particle from
O is given by x = 40 + 12t − .  How long would the particles travel before coming to rest?
(a) 40m (b) 56m (c) 16m (d) 24m
14. The displacement of a particle is given by

The initial velocity and acceleration are respectively

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(a) (b) (c) (d)

15. The velocity of a particle is given by . The average acceleration of the particle between 3
and 5 seconds will be
(a) (b) (c) (d)
16. A body is projected vertically upwards. The times corresponding to height h while ascending and while
descending are   and  , respectively. Then, the velocity of projection is.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

17. A ball is projected vertically up such that it passes through a fixed point ‘p’ after time and
respectively. Then velocity of the ball at the time of passing through point ‘P’ is

(a) (b) (c) (d)

18. The water drops fall at regular intervals from a tap 5 m above the ground. The third drop is leaving the tap at the
instant the first touches the ground. How far above the ground is the second drop at that instant?
(a) 2.50m (b) 3.75m (c) 4.00m (d) 1.25m
19. From the top of a building of height 40m, a boy throws a stone vertically upwards with an initial velocity
of 10m/s such that it eventually falls to the ground. After how long will the stone strike the ground? Take g =
10m/s2
(a) 1s (b) 2s (c) 3s (d) 4s
20. A ball is released from the top of height h metere. It takes T second to reach the ground. Where is the ball at the
time t/2 sec from the ground
(a) At (h/4)m (b) A(h/2)m (c) At(3h/4)
(d) Depends upon the mass volume of the ball
21. The acceleration versus time graph of a particle moving in a straight line is shown in the Fig. If the particle starts
from rest at t = 0, then its speed at t = 30sec will be

(a) 20m/sec (b) 0 m/sec (c) -40m/sec (d) 40m/sec

22. The following graph shows the variation of velocity of a rocker with time. Then maximum height attained by
the rocker is

(a) 1.1km (b) 5km (c) 55km (d) None of these

23. From the velocity-time graph. Given in fig. of a particle moving in a straight line, one cam conclude that
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(a) Its average velocity during the 12s interval is

(b) Its velocity for the first 3s is uniform and is equal to
(c) the body has a constant acceleration between and
(d) The body has a uniform retardation from t =8s to t =12s.
24. The displacement-time graph of a body is shown in fig.

The velocity-time graph of the motion of the body will be

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

25. The acceleration versus time graph of a particle moving in a straight line is shown in fig. The velocity-
time graph of the particle would be
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(a) a straight line (b) a parabola (c) a circle (d) An ellipse

26. A particle moves along a straight line and its velocity depends on time as . Then for first 5s.
(a) Average velocity is
(b) Average speed is
(c) Average velocity is
(d) Acceleration is at t = 0

27. The velocity-time plat for a particle moving on a straight line is sown in fig.

(a) The particle has a constant acceleration.

(b) The particle has never turned around
(c) The particle has zero displacement
(d) The average speed in the interval 0 to 10s is the same as the average speed in the interval 10s to
20s
28. A boat takes 2 hours to travel 8 km and back in still water lake. With water velocity of 4 km/h, the time taken
for going upstream of 8 km and coming back is
(a) 160m (b) 80m (c) 100m (d) 120m
29. A man in a balloon, throws a stone downwards with a speed of 5 m/s with respect to balloon. The balloon is
moving upwards with a constant acceleration of  . Then velocity of the stone relative to the man
after 2 second is :
(a) 10m/s (b) 30m/s (c) 15m/s (d) 35m/s
30. A car is standing 200m behind a bus, which is also at rest. The two start moving at the same instant but with
different forward accelerations. The bus has acceleration   and the car has acceleration . The car
will catch up with the bus after a time of:
(a) (b) (c) (d) 15s
31. A boy running on a horizontal road at 8 km/h finds the rain falling vertically. He increases his speed
to 12 km/h and finds that the drops make angle   with the vertical. The speed of rain with respect to the road
is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
32. An airplane flies from a town A to a town B when there is no wind takes a total time t0 for a return trip.
When there is a wind bowing in a direction from town A to town B, the plane’s time for a similar
return trip, ¸would satisfy
(a) (b) (c)
(d) the result depends on the wind velocity between the towns

33. A particle is moving along X-axis whose position is given by . Mark the correct
statement(s) in relation to its motion.
(a) Direction of motion is not changing at any of the instants.
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(b) Direction of motion is changing at

(c) For , the particle is slowing down
(d) For , the particle is speeding up