84 Motion in one Dimension

(c) 3 :1 (d) 1 : 3
3. A car travels from A to B at a speed of 20 km / hr and returns at
9 a speed of 30 km / hr . The average speed of the car for the whole
journey is [MP PET 1985]
(a) 25 km / hr (b) 24 km / hr
Distance and Displacement
(c) 50 km / hr (d) 5 km / hr
1. A Body moves 6 m north. 8 m east and 10m vertically upwards, 4. A boy walks to his school at a distance of 6 km with constant speed
what is its resultant displacement from initial position [DCE
of 2.5 km 2000]
/hour and walks back with a constant speed of 4 km/hr.
10 His average speed for round trip expressed in km/hour, is
(a) 10 2m (b) 10m
(a) 24/13 (b) 40/13
10
(c) m (d) 10  2m (c) 3 (d) 1/2
2 5. A car travels the first half of a distance between two places at a
2. A man goes 10m towards North, then 20m towards east then
displacement is
11 speed of 30 km/hr and the second half of the distance at 50 km/hr.
The average speed of the car for the whole journey is [Manipal MEE 1995; A
[KCET 1999; JIPMER 1999; AFMC 2003] (a) 42.5 km/hr (b) 40.0 km/hr
(a) 22.5m (b) 25m (c) 37.5 km/hr (d) 35.0 km/hr
(c) 25.5m (d) 30m 6. One car moving on a straight road covers one third of the distance
3. A person moves 30 m north and then 20 m towards east and finally 12 with 20 km/hr and the rest with 60 km/hr. The average speed is [MP PMT 1999
30 2 m in south-west direction. The displacement of the person (a) 40 km/hr (b) 80 km/hr
from the origin will be 2
[J & K CET 2004] (c) 46 km/hr (d) 36 km/hr
3
(a) 10 m along north (b) 10 m long south
7. A car moves for half of its time at 80 km/h and for rest half of time
(c) 10 m along west (d) Zero at 40 km/h. Total distance covered is 60 km. What is the average
4. An aeroplane flies 400 m north and 300 m south and then flies 13
speed of the car [RPET 1996]
1200 m upwards then net displacement is
(a) 60 km / h (b) 80 km / h
[AFMC 2004]
(a) 1200 m (b) 1300 m (c) 120 km / h (d) 180 km / h
(c) 1400 m (d) 1500 m 8. A train has a speed of 60 km/h. for the first one hour and 40 km/h
14
5. An athlete completes one round of a circular track of radius R in 40 for the next half hour. Its average speed in km/h is
sec. What will be his displacement at the end of 2 min. 20 sec [NCERT 1990; Kerala PMT 2004] [JIPMER 1999]
(a) Zero (b) 2R (a) 50 (b) 53.33
(c) 2R (d) 7R (c) 48 (d) 70
6. A wheel of radius 1 meter rolls forward half a revolution on a 9. Which of the following is a one dimensional motion
horizontal ground. The magnitude of the displacement of the point 15 [BHU 2000; CBSE PMT 2001]
of the wheel initially in contact with the ground is (a) Landing of an aircraft
[BCECE 2005] (b) Earth revolving a round the sun
(a) 2 (b) 2 (c) Motion of wheels of a moving trains
(d) Train running on a straight track
(c) 2 4 (d)  10. A 150 m long train is moving with a uniform velocity of 45 km/h.
16 The time taken by the train to cross a bridge of length 850 meters
Uniform Motion is [CBSE PMT 2001]
(a) 56 sec (b) 68 sec
1. A person travels along a straight road for half the distance with (c) 80 sec (d) 92 sec
7 velocity v1 and the remaining half distance with velocity v 2 The 11. A particle is constrained to move on a straight line path. It returns
average velocity is given by [MP PMT 2001] to the starting point after 10 sec. The total distance covered by the
17 particle during this time is 30 m. Which of the following statements
v 22
(a) v1v 2 (b) about the motion of the particle is false [CBSE PMT 2000; AFMC 2001]
v12
v1  v 2 2v1v 2 (a) Displacement of the particle is zero
(c) (d)
2 v1  v 2 (b) Average speed of the particle is 3 m/s
2. The displacement-time graph for two particles A and B are straight (c) Displacement of the particle is 30 m
lines inclined at angles of 30 o and 60 o with the time axis. The
8 (d) Both (a) and (b)
ratio of velocities of V A : VB is
[CPMT 1990; MP PET 1999; MP PET 2001; Pb. PET 2003]
12. A particle moves along a semicircle of radius 10m in 5 seconds. The
average velocity of the particle is
(a) 1 : 2 (b) 1 : 3 18
[Kerala (Engg.) 2001]
 Motion in One Dimension 85

(a) 2 ms 1 (b) 4 ms 1 (b) Equal to one

(c) Equal to or less than one
(c) 2 ms 1 (d) 4 ms 1 (d) Equal to or greater than one
13. A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km 19. A 100 m long train is moving with a uniform velocity of 45 km/hr.
away with a speed of 5 km/h. Finding the market closed, he instantly The time taken by the train to cross a bridge of length 1 km is
19 turns and walks back home with a speed of 7.5 km/h. The average 25
(a) 58 s (b) 68 s
speed of the man over the interval of time 0 to 40 min. is equal to [AMU
(c)(Med.)
78 s2002] (d) 88 s
25 20. A particle moves for 20 seconds with velocity 3 m/s and then
(a) 5 km/h (b) km/h velocity 4 m/s for another 20 seconds and finally moves with
4
26 velocity 5 m/s for next 20 seconds. What is the average velocity of
30 45 the particle [MH CET 2004]
(c) km/h (d) km/h
4 8 (a) 3 m/s (b) 4 m/s
14. The ratio of the numerical values of the average velocity and average (c) 5 m/s (d) Zero
speed of a body is always [MP PET 2002] 21. The correct statement from the following is [MP PET 1993]
20
(a) Unity (b) Unity or less 27 (a) A body having zero velocity will not necessarily have zero
acceleration
(c) Unity or more (d) Less than unity
(b) A body having zero velocity will necessarily have zero
15. A person travels along a straight road for the first half time with a acceleration
velocity v1 and the next half time with a velocity v 2 . The mean (c) A body having uniform speed can have only uniform
21
velocity V of the man is acceleration
(d) A body having non-uniform velocity will have zero acceleration
[RPET 1999; BHU 2002]
22. A bullet fired into a fixed target loses half of its velocity after
2 1 1 v v penetrating 3 cm. How much further it will penetrate before coming
(a)   (b) V 1 2 28
V v1 v 2 2 to rest assuming that it faces constant resistance to motion?
(a) 1.5 cm (b) 1.0 cm
v1
(c) V  v1v 2 (d) V  (c) 3.0 cm (d) 2.0 cm
v2
23. Two boys are standing at the ends A and B of a ground where
16. If a car covers 2/5 of the total distance with v speed and 3/5 AB  a . The boy at B starts running in a direction perpendicular
th th

29
to AB with velocity v1 . The boy at A starts running simultaneously
1

22 distance with v then average speed is [MP PMT 2003]

2

with velocity v and catches the other boy in a time t, where t is [

1 v1  v 2
(a) v1v 2 (b)
(a) a / v 2  v12 (b) a 2 /(v 2  v12 )
2 2

2v 1 v 2 5v 1 v 2 (c) a /(v  v1 ) (d) a /(v  v1 )

(c) (d)
v1  v 2 3v 1  2v 2 24. A car travels half the distance with constant velocity of 40 kmph
and the remaining half with a constant velocity of 60 kmph. The
17. Which of the following options is correct for the object having a 30 average velocity of the car in kmph is
straight line motion represented by the following graph [DCE 2004] [Kerala PMT 2005]
D (a) 40 (b) 45
23 (c) 48 (d) 50
C

B
Non-uniform Motion
t
1. A particle experiences a constant acceleration for 20 sec after
A 31 starting from rest. If it travels a distance S 1 in the first 10 sec and a
O
s distance S 2 in the next 10 sec, then
(a) The object moves with constantly increasing velocity from O to
A and then it moves with constant velocity. [NCERT 1972; CPMT 1997; MP PMT 2002]

(b) Velocity of the object increases uniformly (a) S1  S 2 (b) S1  S 2 / 3

(c) Average velocity is zero (c) S1  S 2 / 2 (d) S1  S 2 / 4
(d) The graph shown is impossible 2. The displacement x of a particle along a straight line at time t is
18. The numerical ratio of displacement to the distance covered is 32 given by x  a0  a1 t  a 2 t 2 . The acceleration of the particle is [NCERT 197
always [BHU 2004]
24 (a) a0 (b) a1
(a) Less than one
 86 Motion in one Dimension

(c) 2a 2 (d) a 2 (b) (v1  v 2 ) : (v 2  v 3 )  (t1  t 2 ) : (t 2  t 3 )

3. The coordinates of a moving particle at any time are given by (c) (v1  v 2 ) : (v 2  v 3 )  (t1  t 2 ) : (t1  t 3 )
33 x  at 2 and y  bt 2 . The speed of the particle at any moment is
(d) (v1  v 2 ) : (v 2  v 3 )  (t1  t 2 ) : (t 2  t 3 )
[DPMT 1984; CPMT 1997]
412. The acceleration of a moving body can be found from
(a) 2t(a  b) (b) 2 t (a 2  b 2 ) [DPMT 1981]
(a) Area under velocity-time graph
(c) t a2  b 2 (d) 2 t (a 2  b 2 )
(b) Area under distance-time graph
4. An electron starting from rest has a velocity that increases linearly (c) Slope of the velocity-time graph
34 with the time that is v  kt , where k  2m / sec 2 . The distance (d) Slope of distance-time graph
travelled in the first 3 seconds will be
413. The initial velocity of a particle is u (at t  0 ) and the
[NCERT 1982]
acceleration f is given by at . Which of the following relation is
(a) 9 m (b) 16 m valid [CPMT 1981; BHU 1995]
(c) 27 m (d) 36 m
t2
5. The displacement of a body is given to be proportional to the cube (a) v  u  at2 (b) v  u  a
35 of time elapsed. The magnitude of the acceleration of the body is [NCERT 1990] 2
(a) Increasing with time (b) Decreasing with time (c) v  u  at (d) v  u
(c) Constant but not zero (d) Zero 414. The initial velocity of the particle is 10 m / sec and its retardation
6. The instantaneous velocity of a body can be measured is 2m / sec 2 . The distance moved by the particle in 5 th second
36
(a) Graphically (b) Vectorially of its motion is [CPMT 1976]
(c) By speedometer (d) None of these (a) 1 m (b) 19 m
3 7. A body is moving from rest under constant acceleration and let S 1 (c) 50 m (d) 75 m
be the displacement in the first (p  1) sec and S 2 be the
415. A motor car moving with a uniform speed of 20 m / sec comes to
displacement in the first p sec . The displacement in
stop on the application of brakes after travelling a distance of 10 m
(p 2  p  1)th sec. will be Its acceleration is [EAMCET 1979]
(a) S1  S 2 (b) S 1 S 2 (a) 20 m / sec 2 (b)  20m / sec 2
(c) S1  S 2 (d) S 1 / S 2 (c)  40 m / sec 2 (d)  2m / sec 2
3 8. A body under the action of several forces will have zero acceleration 416. The velocity of a body moving with a uniform acceleration of
(a) When the body is very light 2 m. / sec 2 is 10 m / sec . Its velocity after an interval of 4 sec is
(b) When the body is very heavy
(a) 12 m / sec (b) 14 m / sec
(c) When the body is a point body
(d) When the vector sum of all the forces acting on it is zero (c) 16 m / sec (d) 18 m / sec
39. A body starts from the origin and moves along the X-axis such that the 417. A particle starting from rest travels a distance x in first 2 seconds
3
velocity at any instant is given by (4 t  2t) , where t is in sec and and a distance y in next two seconds, then
velocity in m / s . What is the acceleration of the particle, when it is 2 m [EAMCET 1982]
from the origin (a) yx (b) y  2 x

(a) 28 m / s 2
(b) 22 m / s 2 (c) y  3x (d) y  4 x
418. The initial velocity of a body moving along a straight line is 7 m / s .
(c) 12 m / s 2 (d) 10 m / s 2
It has a uniform acceleration of 4 m / s 2 . The distance covered by
410. The relation between time and distance is t  x 2  x , where  the body in the 5 second of its motion is
th

and  are constants. The retardation is (a) 25 m (b) 35 m

[NCERT 1982; AIEEE 2005] (c) 50 m (d) 85 m
(a) 2v 3 (b) 2 v 3 419. The velocity of a body depends on time according to the equation
v  20  0.1t 2 . The body is undergoing
(c) 2v 3 (d) 2 2v 3 [MNR 1995; UPSEAT 2000]
A point moves with uniform acceleration and v 1 , v 2 and v 3 (a) Uniform acceleration
411.
denote the average velocities in the three successive intervals of time (b) Uniform retardation
t 1 , t 2 and t 3 . Which of the following relations is correct (c) Non-uniform
[NCERT 1982]acceleration
(d) Zero acceleration
(a) (v1  v 2 ) : (v 2  v 3 )  (t1  t 2 ) : (t 2  t 3 ) 20. Which of the following four statements is false
[Manipal MEE 1995]