Class : 9 Motion_Graph based questions_Worksheet
1. The velocity time graph of an ascending passenger lift is given
below. What is the acceleration of the lift:
(i) during the first two seconds
(ii) between 2nd and 10th second
(iii) during the last two seconds.
2. The figure is the distance-time graph of an object.
Do you think it represents a real situation? If so, why?
If not, why not?
3. Study the speed-time graph of a body shown in below figure
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 of the body.
(e) Calculate the retardation of the body.
(f) Calculate the distance travelled by the body from A to B.
4. In the above question, calculate
(i) distance travelled from O to A
(ii) distance travelled from B to C.
(iii) total distance travelled by the body in 16 sec.
5. A car is moving on a straight road with uniform acceleration.
The following table gives the speed of the car at various instants of time:
Draw the speed time graph choosing a convenient scale. Determine from it
(i) the acceleration of the car
(ii) the distance travelled by the car in 50 sec.
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6. Below Figure represents the speed time graph for a particle. Find
the distance covered by the particle
a. between t= 30min. and t= 40min.
b. between t=10 min and t=40 min
c. what is the speed of the particle A car is travelling with a speed
of 36 km/h. The driver applied the brakes and retards the car
uniformly. The car is stopped in 5 sec. Find
(i) The acceleration of car and
(ii) Distance before it stops after Appling breaks?
7. A particle starts from rest and moves with a uniform acceleration of 5m/s2 for 10s and then it
moves with a constant velocity for 4s. Later it slows down and comes to rest in 5s. Draw the
velocity graph for the motion of the body and answer the following questions:
a. What is the maximum velocity attended by the body?
b. What is the distance travelled during this period of acceleration?
c. What is distance travelled when the body was moving with constant velocity?
d. What is the retardation of the body while slowing down?
e. What is the distance travelled by retarding?
f. What is the total distance travelled?
8. Find the distance covered by a particle during the time interval t=0 and t=4s for which the
speed time graph is shown in figure
9. Figure shows distance time graph of three objects A , B and C
a. which object is moving with a greater speed
b. which object is moving with slowest speed
10. What type of motion is represented by each one of the following graphs?
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Class : 9 Motion_Graph based questions_Worksheet
11. Three speed-time graphs are given below :
Which graph represents the case of :
(i) A cricket ball thrown vertically upwards and returning to the hands of the thrower?
(ii) A trolley decelarating to a constant speed and then accelerating uniformly?
12. The brakes applied to a car produce an acceleration of 6 ms -2 in the opposite direction to the
motion. If the car takes 2s to stop after the application of brakes, calculate the distance it travels
during this time.
13. In which of the following graphs below are both runners moving at the same speed?
Explain your answer.
14. The speed-time graphs below represent the
motion of a car. Match the descriptions with the
graphs. Explain your answers.
Descriptions:
E. The car is stopped.
F. The car is traveling at a constant speed.
G. The car is accelerating.
H. The car is slowing down.
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15. Look at the graph. It shows how three runners
ran a 100-meter race.
i. Which runner won the race? Explain your
answer.
ii. Which runner stopped for a rest? Explain
your answer.
iii. How long was the stop? Explain your
answer.
iv. How long did Bob take to complete the
race? Explain your answer.
v. Calculate Albert’s average speed. (Figure the distance and the time first!)
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