HOLIDAY HOME WORK

CLASS IX
SUBJECT - PHYSICS
DATE OF SUBMISSION 1ST WEEK OF JULY
ASSIGNMENT - 1
Q1- A body goes round the sun with constant speed in a circular orbit. Is the motion
uniform or accelerated?
Q2- What can you say about the motion of a body if its speed- time graph is a straight line
parallel to the time axis?
Q3- What does the slope of a distance- time graph indicate?
Q4-
Q5- A car X travels a distance of 460 km in 5 hours and car Y travels a distance of 574 km
in 7 hours. Which car travels faster?
Q6- If a bus travelling at 40 m/s is subjected to a steady deceleration of 5 m/s2 , how long
will it take to come to rest?
Q7- Explain why, the motion of the body which is moving with constant speed in a circular
path is said to be accelerated?
Q8- A cheetah starts from rest and accelerates at 2m/s2 for 10 seconds. Calculate:
(a) the final velocity.
(b) the distance travelled.
Q9- (a) Write the three equations of uniformly accelerated motion. Give the meaning of
each symbol which occurs in them.
(b) Derive the equation: s = ut + at2 by using graphical method.

Q10- A car acquires a velocity of 72 km per hour in 10 seconds starting from the rest. Find
(a) the acceleration.
(b) the distance travelled in this time.
Q11- (a) What is meant by uniform circular motion? Give two examples.
(b) An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 42250 km. Calculate
its speed if it takes 24 hours to revolve around the earth.
Q12- A ball gently dropped from a height of 20 m. If its velocity increases uniformly at the
rate of 10 m/s2, with what velocity will it strike the ground? After what time will it strike
the ground?
Q13- Study the speed-time graph of a body given below and answer the following
questions:
(a) What type of motion is represented by OA?
(b) What type of motion is represented by AB?
 (c) What type of motion is represented by BC?
(d) Calculate the acceleration and retardation of the body?
(e) Find out the distance travelled by the body from A to B.

Q14- The distance- time graphs of two trains A and B are given below. The trains start
simultaneously in the same direction.
(a) How much ahead of A and B when the motion starts?
(b) What is the speed of B?
(c) When and where will A catch B?
(d) What is the difference between the speeds of A and B?

Q15- What type of motion is represented by each one of the following graphs?

ASSIGNMENT 2
1. a) Define uniform acceleration. What is the acceleration of a body moving with
uniform velocity?
(b) A particle moves over three quarters of a circle of radius r. What is the
magnitude of its displacement?
2 Study the velocity-time graph and calculate.

(a) The acceleration from A to B

(b) The acceleration from B to C
(c) The distance covered in the region ABE
(d) The average velocity from C to D
(e) The distance covered in the region BCFE
3. Write down the difference between Scalars and Vectors?
4 An airplane accelerates down a runway at 3.20 m/s 2 for 32.8 s until is finally lifts off
the ground. Determine the distance traveled before take off.
5. A boy on a 78.4m high cliff drops a stone. One second later, he throws another stone
downwards with some speed. The two stones reach the ground simultaneously. Find
the speed with which the second stone was thrown
(Acceleration due to gravity=9.8 m/s2 ).
 SUBJECT CHEMISTRY
ASSIGNMENT 1

1. A sample of water under study was found to boil at 1020C at normal temperature
and pressure. Is the water pure? Will it freeze at 00C? Comment.
2. What is the difference between a gas and a vapour? Which of the following
substances in the gaseous state should be called a vapour: Oxygen, chlorine,
iodine, flourine
3. Ordinary water boils at 1000C. Can it be made to boil at 950C or 1050C?
4. I extremely cold weather, a family burnt coal in the room during night keeping
doors and windows closed. After sometime, they felt suffocated. They immediately
opened the doors and the windows and got relief. Explain what did actually
happen?
5. List two properties that liquids have in common with solids and list two properties
that liquids have in common with gases.
6. A punctured tyre becomes flat more easily in summer than in winter? Explain.
7. Why does ice at 00C appear colder than water at same temperature?
8. Enumerate the changes that take place inside the matter during the change of
matter.
9. What is the temperature at kelvin scale at which all molecular motion virtually
stops?
10. Is dry ice same as ordinary ice?
 ASSIGNMENT 2

1. Identify the processes labeled as A, B, C and D in the following schematic diagram

2. A sample of water was heated from 250C to 350C. How much was the rise in
temperature on Kelvin scale?
3. Both sand and water take the shape of the vessel in which they are placed, yet
sand is called a solid. Explain.
4. A substance has a definite volume but no definite shape? State whether this
substance is a solid, a liquid or a gas.
5. You are provided with a mixture of naphthalene and sodium chloride by your
teacher. Suggest an activity to separate them with a well labeled diagram.
6. Give one example each of diffusion of (a) a solid into a liquid (b) a liquid into
another liquid (c) a gas into another gas
7. For any substance, why does the temperature remain constant during the change
of state?
 SUBJECT BIOLOGY
ASSIGNMENT 1

1) We eat food composed of all the nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins, fats,
vitamins, minerals and water. After digestion, these are absorbed in the form of
glucose, aminoacids, fatty acids, glycerol etc. What mechanisms are involved in
absorption of digested food and water?
2) How does amoeba engulfs its food?
3). A person takes concentrated solution of salt, after sometime, he starts vomiting.
What is the phenomenon responsible for such situation? Explain.
4) In brief state what happens when
(a) Dry apricots are left for sometime in pure water and later transferred to
sugar solution?
(b) a Red Blood Cell is kept in concentrated saline solution?
(c) the Plasma-membrane of a cell breaks down?
(d) rheo leaves are boiled in water first and then a drop of sugar syrup is put
on it?
(e) golgi apparatus is removed from the cell.
5) Draw a neat labeled diagram of eukaryotic cell.
 ASSIGNMENT 2
1. proteins
2. What is chromatin material? How does it change before cell division?
3. You took a tomato and put it in a highly concentrated solution for 2 hours. Your little

I) Define the phenomenon that has taken place?

II) How does a cell wall help a plant to withstand hypotonic external medium
without bursting?
4. List two statements by which lysosomes are aptly called the suicidal bags of cell?
What kind of enzymes are present in lysosomes?
5. Differentiate between nuclear region of a animal cell and bacterial cell?
6. What kind of plastids are common in :
I) Roots of a plant
II) Leaves
III) Flowers and fruits
7. How do
8. State one feature that is similar and one feature that is dissimilar with respect to
mitochondria and plastids.
9. What is plasma membrane made up of?
10. What would happen to the cell if there is no Golgi body?
11. What is the full form of ATP? Write the use of the energy released by this compound
for the cell.
12. Draw a large diagram of an animal cell as seen through an electron microscope.
Label the parts that carry on the function of Respiration, secretion, protein synthesis,
transport of material.
13. Why do plant cell have bigger sized vacuoles as compared to animal cells?
14. :What is the significance of pores present on nuclear membrane?
15."Diffusion plays an important role in gaseous exchange between the cells as well as
the cells and its external environment". Explain How?
16) State one feature that is similar and one feature that is dissimilar with respect to
mitochondria and plastids
17) What is lacking in virus which makes which makes it dependent on living cell to
multiply?
18) A solution of 3% glucose and a solution of 8% glucose are kept in a trough
separated by a semi permeable membrane. What will you observe after 1 hour?
19) How are genes and DNA related to each other?
20) Differentiate between mitosis and meiosis.