FINAL PRACTICE SHEET

Topic :- Collision, Impulse and Explosion

Problems
by Ramiz Zaman

SINGLE CORRECT TYPE QUESTIONS

1. A thick uniform wire is bent into the shape of the letter “U” as shown. Which point indicates the
location of the center of mass of this wire? A is the midpoint of the line joining mid points of two
parallel sides of 'U' shaped wire.

(A) D (B) A (C) B (D) C

2. A machinist starts with three identical square plates but cuts one corner from one of them, two corners
from the second, and three corners from the third. Rank the three plates according to the x-coordinate
of their centers of mass, from smallest to largest.

y y y

x x x

[1] [2] [3]

(A) 3, 1, 2 (B) 1, 3, 2 (C) 3, 2, 1 (D) 1 and 3 tie, then 2

3. Centre of mass of two thin uniform rods of same length but made up of different materials & kept
as shown, can be, if the meeting point is the origin of co-ordinates

(A) (L/2, L/2) (B) (2L/3, L/2) (C) (L/3, L/3) (D) (L/3, L/6)

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4. From the circular disc of radius 4R two small disc of radius R are cut off. The centre of mass of the
new structure will be :

R R R R - 3R
(A) i +j (B) - i +j (C) ( î + ˆj) (D) None of these
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5. Seven identical birds are flying south together at constant velocity. A hunter shoots one of them,
which immediately dies and falls to the ground. The other six continue flying south at the original
velocity. After the one bird has hit the ground, the centre of mass of all seven birds
(A) continues south at the original speed, but is now located some distance behind the flying birds
(B) continues south, but at 6/7 the original velocity
(C) continues south, but at 1/7 the original velocity
(D) stops with the dead bird
6. A man weighing 80 kg is standing at the centre of a flat boat and he is 20 m from the shore. He walks
8 m on the boat towards the shore and then halts. The boat weight 200 kg. How far is he from the
shore at the end of this time ?
(A) 11.2 m (B) 13.8 m
(C) 14.3 m (D) 15.4 m

7. There are some passengers inside a stationary railway compartment. The track is frictionless. The
centre of mass of the compartment itself (without the passengers) is C1, while the centre of mass of the
'compartment plus passengers' system is C2. If the passengers move about inside the compartment
along the track.
(A) both C1 and C2 will move with respect to the ground.
(B) neither C1 nor C2 will move with respect to the ground.
(C) C1 will move but C2 will be stationary with respect to the ground.
(D) C2 will move but C1 will be stationary with respect to the ground.

8. A non–zero external force acts on a system of particles. The velocity and acceleration of the centre of
mass are found to be v0 and aC respectively at any instant t. It is possible that
(i) v0= 0, aC = 0 (ii) v0 ¹ 0, aC= 0 (iii) v0= 0, aC ¹ 0 (iv) v0¹ 0, aC ¹ 0
Then
(A) (iii) and (iv) are true. (B) (i) and (ii) are true.
(C) (i) and (iii) are true. (D) (ii), (iii) and (iv) are true.

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9. Lower surface of a plank is rough and lying at rest on a rough horizontal surface. Upper surface of the
plank is smooth and has a smooth hemisphere placed over it through a light string as shown in the
figure. After the string is burnt, trajectory of centre of mass of the sphere is :-

Plank

(A) a circle (B) an ellipse

(C) a straight line (D) a parabola
10. Three interacting particles of masses 100 g, 200 g and 400 g each have a velocity of 20 m/s magnitude
along the positive direction of x-axis, y-axis and z-axis. Due to force of interaction the third particle
stops moving. The velocity of the second particle is (10 ˆj + 5kˆ ) . What is the velocity of the first
particle?
(A) 20iˆ + 20 ˆj + 70kˆ (B) 10iˆ + 20 ˆj + 8kˆ

(C) 30iˆ + 10 ˆj + 7kˆ (D) 15iˆ + 5 ˆj + 60kˆ

11. A system of N particles is free from any external forces.

(i) Which of the following is true for the magnitude of the total momentum of the system?
(A) It must be zero
(B) It could be non–zero, but it must be constant
(C) It could be non–zero, and it might not be constant
(D) The answer depends on the nature of the internal forces in the system
(ii) Which of the following must be true for the sum of the magnitudes of the momenta of the individual
particles in the system?
(A) It must be zero
(B) It could be non–zero, but it must be constant
(C) It could be non–zero, and it might not be constant
(D) It could be zero, even if the magnitude of the total momentum is not zero
12. A body of mass 4 kg is acted on by a force which varies as shown in the graph below. The momentum
acquired is

F(N)

10

t(s)
0 5 9

(A) 280 N–s (B) 140 N–s (C) 70 N–s (D) 210 N–s

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13. The coefficient of friction between the block and plank is m and ground is smooth. The value of
µ is such that block becomes stationary with respect to plank before it reaches the other end.
Then which of the following statement is incorrect.
(A) The work done by friction on the block is negative. m V0
(B) The work done by friction on the plank is positive .
M
(C) The net work done by friction is negative. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
(D) Net work done by the friction is zero.
14. A projectile is projected in x-y plane with velocity v0. At top most point of its trajectory projectile
explodes into two identical fragments. Both the fragments land simultaneously on ground and stick
there. Taking point of projection as origin and R as range of projectile if explosion had not taken
place. Which of the following can not be position vectors of two pieces, when they land on ground.

v0 explosion

q
x

R ˆ 3R ˆ R R
(A) i, i (B) 0iˆ,2 Riˆ (C) Riˆ - Rkˆ, Riˆ + Rkˆ (D) 2 Riˆ + kˆ, Riˆ - kˆ
2 2 2 2

15. A boy hits a baseball with a bat and imparts an impulse J to the ball. The boy hits the ball again with
the same force, except that the ball and the bat are in contact for twice the amount of time as in the first
hit. The new impulse equals:
(A) half the original impulse (B) the original impulse
(C) twice the original impulse (D) four times the original impulse
16. Two balls of same mass are dropped from the same height h, on to the floor. The first ball bounces to
a height h/4 ,after the collision & the second ball to a height h/16. The impulse applied by the first &
second ball on the floor are I1 and I2 respectively. Then
(A) 5I1 = 6I2 (B) 6I1 = 5I2 (C) I1 = 2I2 (D) 2I1 = I2
17. Ball A of mass 5.0 kilograms moving at 20 m/s collides with ball B of unknown mass moving at
10m/s in the same direction. After the collision, ball A moves at 10 m/s and ball B at 15 m/s, both still
in the same direction. What is the mass of ball B?
(A) 6.0 kg (B) 10. kg (C) 2.0 kg (D) 12 kg
18. A smooth small spherical ball of mass m, moving with velocity u collides head on with another small
spherical ball of mass 3m, which was initially at rest. Two-third of the initial kinetic energy of the
system is lost. The coefficient of restitution between the spheres is

1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) zero
3 3 2
19. A ball strikes a smooth horizontal ground at an angle of 45° with the vertical. What cannot be the
possible angle of its velocity with the vertical after the collision. (Assume e £ 1 ).
(A) 45° (B) 30° (C) 53° (D) 60°

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20. Two identical ball bearings in contact with each other and resting on a frictionless table are hit head-
on by another ball bearing of the same mass moving initially with a speed V as shown in figure (i). If
the collision is elastic, which of the following is a possible result after collision?

1 2 3
fig. (i)

1 1 2 3

(A) (B)
V=0 V/2 V=0 V

1 2 3 1 2 3

(C) (D)
V/3 V/1 V/2 V/3
21. A ball is projected from ground with a velocity V at an angle q to the vertical. On its path it makes an
elastic collison with a vertical wall and returns to ground. The total time of flight of the ball is
2v sin q 2v cos q v sin 2q v cos q
(A) (B) (C) (D)
g g g g
22. A ball is thrown downwards with initial speed = 6 m/s, from a point at height = 3.2 m above a
horizontalfloor. If the ball rebounds back to the same height then coefficient of restitution equals to
(A) 1/2 (B) 0.75 (C) 0.8 (D) None
23. A particle is projected from a smooth horizontal surface with velocity v at an angle q from horizontal.
Coefficient of restitution between the surface and ball is e. The distance of the point where ball strikes
the surface second time from the point of projection is

v 2 sin 2q(1 + e 2 ) v 2 sin 2q(1 + e 4 )

(A) (B)
g g

v 2 sin 2q(1 + e3 ) v 2 sin 2q(1 + e)

(C) (D)
g g
24. A ball of mass 1kg strikes a heavy platform, elastically, moving upwards with a velocity of 5m/s. The
speed of the ball just before the collision is 10m/s downwards. Then the impulse imparted by the platform
on the ball is :-

(A) 15 N – s (B) 10 N – s (C) 20 N – s (D) 30 N – s

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25. Two bodies, A and B, collide as shown in figures a and b below. Circle the true statement :
VA VB
(a) A B

VA VB
(b) A
B

(A) They exert equal and opposite forces on each other in (a) but not in (b)
(B) They exert equal and opposite force on each other in (b) but not in (a)
(C) They exert equal and opposite force on each other in both (a) and (b)
(D) The forces are equal and opposite to each other in (a), but only the components of the forces
parallel to the velocities are equal in (b).
26. A mass ‘m’ moves with a velocity ‘v’ and collides inelastically with another identical mass at rest.
v
After collision the 1st mass moves with velocity in a direction perpendicular to the initial direction
3
of motion. Find the speed of the 2nd mass after collision :-
2v
(A)
3
v
(B)
3

2
(C) v
3
(D) the situation of the problem is not possible without external impulse

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 ANSWER KEYS
1. Ans. (C) 2. Ans. (B) 3. Ans. (D) 4. Ans. (C) 5. Ans. (B) 6. Ans. (C)
7. Ans. (C) 8. Ans. (A) 9. Ans. (C) 10. Ans. (A) 11. Ans. (i) (B) (ii) (C)
12. Ans. (C) 13. Ans. (D) 14. Ans. (D) 15. Ans. (C) 16. Ans. (A) 17. Ans. (B)
18. Ans. (A) 19. Ans. (B) 20. Ans. (B) 21. Ans. (B) 22. Ans. (C) 23. Ans. (D)
24. Ans. (D) 25. Ans. (C) 26. Ans. (D)

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