Motion Class – 9
1. What would be the displacement of a particle moving in a circular path
of radius r after a displacement of half a circle?
a. 2πr
b. πr
c. 2r
d. Zero
Answer: (c) 2r
2. The path length travelled by a body in a given time interval is known as
_____.
a. distance
b. velocity
c. acceleration
d. moment
Answer: (a) distance
3. Which of the following situations is true and possible?
a. If the velocity of a body is zero, then the acceleration can be non-zero
b. A body moving at a constant velocity can have acceleration
c. The magnitude of distance and displacement are equal in a circular motion
d. All of the above
Answer: (a) If the velocity of a body is zero, then the acceleration can be
non-zero
4. Velocity is defined as _____ per time.
a. distance
b. displacement
c. power
d. acceleration
Answer: (b) displacement
5. A body moving in a straight line has a uniform motion if it travels _____
distance in equal time intervals.
a. equal
b. unequal
Answer: (a) equal
6. Suppose a boy is moving with a uniform velocity of 10 m/s on a merry-
go-round ride. Which of the following is true of the given scenario?
a. The boy is at rest
b. The boy is moving with no acceleration
c. The boy is moving with accelerated motion
d. The boy is moving with uniform velocity
Answer: (c) The boy is moving with accelerated motion.
7. What does the slope of the distance-time graph give?
a. speed
b. velocity
c. acceleration
d. displacement
Answer: (a) speed
8. What does the slope of the velocity-time graph give?
a. speed
b. velocity
c. acceleration
d. displacement
Answer: (c) acceleration
9. Which of the following is true of a free-falling body?
a. It moves with non-uniform motion
b. It has zero velocity
c. It has constant non-zero acceleration
d. It has non-uniform acceleration
Answer: (c) It has constant non-zero acceleration.
10. The physical quantity that has both magnitude and direction is known
as
a. vectors
b. scalars
c. Both(a) and (b)
d. Neither (a) or (b)
Answer: (a) vectors
Q.11. Which of the following is true about motion along a straight line?
a) It can only be uniform motion
b) It can only be nonuniform motion
c) It can be either uniform or nonuniform motion
d) It can have multiple directions
Ans: (c) It can be either uniform or nonuniform motion
Q.12. What does the rate of motion refer to?
a) Change in position
b) Change in speed
c) Change in direction
d) Change in time
Ans: (a) Change in position
Q.13. When an object moves at a constant speed and in a straight line, what kind of
motion is it?
a) Uniform motion
b) Nonuniform motion
c) Circular motion
d) Accelerated motion
Ans: (a) Uniform motion
Q.14. In a distance-time graph, a straight horizontal line represents what kind of
motion?
a) Uniform motion
b) Nonuniform motion
c) No motion
d) Accelerated motion
Ans: (a) Uniform motion
Q.15. What does the slope of a velocity-time graph represent?
a) Acceleration
b) Displacement
c) Distance
d) Speed
Ans: (a) Acceleration
Q.16. What does the equation v = u + at represent?
a) Relationship between velocity and time
b) Relationship between position and time
c) Relationship between acceleration and time
d) Relationship between displacement and time
Ans: (a) Relationship between velocity and time
Q.17. What kind of motion is observed when an object moves in a circular path at a
constant speed?
a) Accelerated motion
b) Uniform motion
c) Nonuniform motion
d) Circular motion
Ans: (b) Uniform motion
Q.18. How can the rate of motion be measured?
a) Using a stopwatch
b) Using a ruler
c) Using a scale
d) Using a speedometer
Ans: (a) Using a stopwatch
Q.19. What does a steep slope on a distance-time graph indicate?
a) Faster motion
b) Slower motion
c) No motion
d) Accelerated motion
Ans: (a) Faster motion
Q. 20. What does the area under a velocity-time graph represent?
a) Speed
b) Acceleration
c) Displacement
d) Distance
Ans: (c) Displacement
Q.21. The direction of acceleration is the same as the direction of _______.
(a) displacement
(b) change in velocity
(c) velocity
(d) all of these
Ans: (b) change in velocity
Q.22. The area under a velocity-time graph gives __________.
(a) distance
(b) acceleration
(c) speed
(d) displacement
Ans: (d) displacement
Q.23. ________can be added algebraically.
(a) Accelerations
(b) Velocities
(c) Distances
(d) Any physical quantities
Ans: (c) Distances
Q.24. A physical quantity which has both magnitude and direction is called a _______.
(a) scalar quantity
(b) vector quantity
(c) neither (a) nor (b)
(d) either (a) or (b)
Ans: (b) vector quantity
Q.25. The distance-time graph of a body moving along a straight path in a single
direction with uniform speed will be _____.
(a) along X-axis
(b) a line with positive slope
(c) parallel to X-axis
(d) None of these
Ans: (b) a line with positive slope
Q.26. If a body travels unequal distances in equal intervals of time along a _______ path,
the body is said to be in ___________.
(a) curved, uniform motion
(b) pentagonal, uniform motion
(c) rectangular, uniform motion
(d) straight, non-uniform motion
Ans: (d) straight, non-uniform motion
Q.27. A freely falling body is said to be moving with _____.
(a) constant non-zero acceleration
(b) non-uniform motion
(c) zero velocity
(d) non-uniform acceleration
Ans: (a) constant non-zero acceleration
Q.28. A body travels along a straight path from its initial position to a point 20 m away
and then returns back to its initial position. The change in the position of the body is
____ and the distance travelled is ______.
(a) 20 m, 40 m
(b) 0 m, 40 m
(c) 40 m, 40 m
(d) 0 m, 0 m
Ans: (b) 0 m, 40 m
Q.29. The slope of a velocity-time graph gives __________.
(a) distance
(b) speed
(c) acceleration
(d) displacement
Ans: (c) acceleration
Q.30. The position-time graph of a body is parabolic, then the body is ______.
(a) in non-uniform motion
(b) in uniform acceleration
(c) at rest with some initial distance covered
(d) at rest with zero initial distance covered
Ans: (b) in uniform acceleration
Q.31. A body travelling equal distances in equal intervals of time is said to be moving
with uniform velocity if the body moves along a _________ path.
(a) straight
(b) rectangular
(c) circular
(d) hexagonal
Ans: (a) straight
Q.32. The slope of a distance-time graph gives _______.
(a) displacement
(b) acceleration
(c) velocity
(d) speed
Ans: (d) speed
Q.33. If a body travels equal distances in equal intervals of time, then_______.
(a) the body is moving with uniform velocity
(b) the body is moving with uniform acceleration
(c) the body may be moving with uniform velocity
(d) the body is moving with uniform deceleration
Ans: (c) the body may be moving with uniform velocity
Q.34. The distance-time graph of the motion of a body is parallel to X-axis, then the
body is ______.
(a) at rest with zero initial distance covered
(b) at rest with some initial distance covered
(c) in non-uniform motion
(d) uniform acceleration
Ans: (b) at rest with some initial distance covered
Q.35. Identify the statement which is true
Statement A: Average velocity of a body may be equal to the instantaneous velocity of the
body.
Statement B: The speed-time graph of a body which is in uniform motion will be a straight-
line coinciding with X-axis.
(a) Statement A is true
(b) Statement B is true.
(c) Both statements A, B are true.
(d) Neither statement A nor statement B is true.
Ans: (a) Statement A is true
Q.36. If the displacement of an object is proportional to square of time, then the object
moves with:
(a) Uniform velocity
(b) Uniform acceleration
(c) Increasing acceleration
(d) Decreasing acceleration
Answer: (b) Uniform acceleration
Q.37. Suppose a boy is enjoying a ride on a marry-go-round which is moving with a
constant speed of 10 m/s. It implies that the boy is:
(a) At rest
(b) Moving with no acceleration
(c) In accelerated motion
(d) Moving with uniform velocity
Answer: (c) In accelerated motion
Q.38. Which of the following can sometimes be ‘zero’ for a moving body?
i. Average velocity
ii. Distance travelled
iii. Average speed
iv. Displacement
(a) Only (i)
(b) (i) and (ii)
(c) (i) and (iv)
(d) Only (iv)
Answer:(c) (i) and (iv)
Q.39. Which of the following statement is correct regarding velocity and speed of a
moving body?
(a) Velocity of a moving body is always higher than its speed
(b) Speed of a moving body is always higher than its velocity
(c) Speed of a moving body is its velocity in a given direction
(d) Velocity of a moving body is its speed in a given direction
Answer:(d) Velocity of a moving body is its speed in a given direction
Q.40. When a car driver travelling at a speed of 10 m/s applies brakes and brings the
car to rest in 20 s, then the retardation will be:
(a) + 2 m/s2
(b) − 2 m/s2
(c) − 0.5 m/s2
(d) + 0.5 m/s2
Answer:(d) + 0.5 m/s2
Q.41 A car of mass 1000 kg is moving with a velocity of 10 m/s. If the velocity-time
graph for this car is a horizontal line parallel to the time axis, then the velocity of the car
at the end of 25 s will be:
(a) 40 m/s
(b) 25 m/s
(c) 10 m/s
(d) 250 m/s
Answer:(c) 10 m/s
Q.42. Which of the following is most likely not a case of uniform circular motion?
(a) Motion of the earth around the sun
(b) Motion of a toy train on a circular track
(c) Motion of a racing car on a circular track
(d) Motion of hours’ hand on the dial of a clock
Answer:(c) Motion of a racing car on a circular track
Q.43. In which of the following cases of motions, the distance moved and the magnitude
of the displacement are equal?
i. If the car is moving on a straight road
ii. If the car is moving in circular path
iii. The pendulum is moving to and fro
iv. The earth is moving around the sun
(a) only(ii)
(b) (i) and (iii)
(c) (ii) and (iv)
(d) only (i)
Answer:(d) only (i)
Q.44. A car is travelling at a speed of 90 km/h. Brakes are applied so as to produce a
uniform acceleration of – 0.5 m/s2. Find how far the car will go before it is brought to
rest?
(a) 8100 m
(b) 900 m
(c) 625 m
(d) 620 m
Answer:(c) 625 m
Q.45. In a free fall the velocity of a stone is increasing equally ion equal intervals of time
under the effect of gravitational force of the earth. Then what can you say about the
motion of this stone? Whether the stone is having:
(a) Uniform acceleration
(b) Non-uniform acceleration
(c) Retardation
(d) Constant speed
Answer:(a) Uniform acceleration
Q.46. The numerical ratio of displacement to distance for a moving object is:
(a) Always less than 1
(b) Equal to 1 or less than 1
(c) Always more than 1
(d) Equal to 1 or more than one
Answer:(b) Equal to 1 or less than 1
Q.47. A car of mass 1000 kg is moving with a velocity of 10 m/s. If the velocity-time
graph for this car is a horizontal line parallel to the time axis, then the velocity of the car
at the end of 25 s will be:
(a) 40 m/s
(b) 25 m/s
(c) 10 m/s
(d) 250 m/s
Answer:(c) 10 m/s
Q.48. Which of the following is most likely not a case of uniform circular motion?
(a) Motion of the earth around the sun
(b) Motion of a toy train on a circular track
(c) Motion of a racing car on a circular track
(d) Motion of hours’ hand on the dial of a clock
Answer:(c) Motion of a racing car on a circular track
Q.49. In which of the following cases of motions, the distance moved and the magnitude
of the displacement are equal?
i. If the car is moving on a straight road
ii. If the car is moving in circular path
iii. The pendulum is moving to and fro
iv. The earth is moving around the sun
(a) only(ii)
(b) (i) and (iii)
(c) (ii) and (iv)
(d) only (i)
Answer:(d) only (i)
Q.50. A car is travelling at a speed of 90 km/h. Brakes are applied so as to produce a
uniform acceleration of – 0.5 m/s2. Find how far the car will go before it is brought to
rest?
(a) 8100 m
(b) 900 m
(c) 625 m
(d) 620 m
Answer:(c) 625 m
Q.51. In a free fall the velocity of a stone is increasing equally ion equal intervals of time
under the effect of gravitational force of the earth. Then what can you say about the
motion of this stone? Whether the stone is having:
(a) Uniform acceleration
(b) Non-uniform acceleration
(c) Retardation
(d) Constant speed
Answer:(a) Uniform acceleration
Q.52. The numerical ratio of displacement to distance for a moving object is:
(a) Always less than 1
(b) Equal to 1 or less than 1
(c) Always more than 1
(d) Equal to 1 or more than one
Answer:(b) Equal to 1 or less than 1
Q.53. A car of mass 1000 kg is moving with a velocity of 10 m/s. If the velocity-time
graph for this car is a horizontal line parallel to the time axis, then the velocity of the car
at the end of 25 s will be:
(a) 40 m/s
(b) 25 m/s
(c) 10 m/s
(d) 250 m/s
Answer:(c) 10 m/s
Q.54. Which of the following is most likely not a case of uniform circular motion?
(a) Motion of the earth around the sun
(b) Motion of a toy train on a circular track
(c) Motion of a racing car on a circular track
(d) Motion of hours’ hand on the dial of a clock
Answer:(c) Motion of a racing car on a circular track
Q.56. In which of the following cases of motions, the distance moved and the magnitude
of the displacement are equal?
i. If the car is moving on a straight road
ii. If the car is moving in circular path
iii. The pendulum is moving to and fro
iv. The earth is moving around the sun
(a) only(ii)
(b) (i) and (iii)
(c) (ii) and (iv)
(d) only (i)
Answer:(d) only (i)
Q.57. A car is travelling at a speed of 90 km/h. Brakes are applied so as to produce a
uniform acceleration of – 0.5 m/s2. Find how far the car will go before it is brought to
rest?
(a) 8100 m
(b) 900 m
(c) 625 m
(d) 620 m
Answer:(c) 625 m
Q.58. In a free fall the velocity of a stone is increasing equally ion equal intervals of time
under the effect of gravitational force of the earth. Then what can you say about the
motion of this stone? Whether the stone is having:
(a) Uniform acceleration
(b) Non-uniform acceleration
(c) Retardation
(d) Constant speed
Answer:(a) Uniform acceleration
Q.59. The numerical ratio of displacement to distance for a moving object is:
(a) Always less than 1
(b) Equal to 1 or less than 1
(c) Always more than 1
(d) Equal to 1 or more than one
Answer:(b) Equal to 1 or less than 1
