N.S.N.

MEMORIAL SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

ThirumuruganSalai, Thirumurugan Nagar, Chitlapakkam, Chennai – 600064

QUESTION BANK

CLASS XI

MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. A bullet is dropped from the same height when another bullet is fired
horizontally. They will hit the ground

(a) one after the other (b) simultaneously (c) depends on the observer (d) None
of these

2.A particle is moving with a constant speed along a straight-line path. A force
is not required to

(a) change its direction (b) decrease its speed

(c) keep it moving with uniform velocity (d)Increase its momentum

3.What is the ratio of the average acceleration during the intervals OA and AB
in the velocity-time graph as shown below?

(a) ½ (b)⅓ (c)1 ( d)3

4. For the motion with uniform velocity, the slope of the velocity-time graph is
equal to

(a) 1 m/s (b)Zero (c)Initial velocity (d)Final velocity

5. A spring with one end attached to a mass and the other to a rigid support is
stretched and released.

a. Magnitude of acceleration, when just released is maximum.

b. Magnitude of acceleration, when at equilibrium position, is maximum.

c. Speed is maximum when mass is at equilibrium position.

d. Magnitude of displacement is always maximum whenever speed is

minimum..

6. Which is the formula for motion in a straight line

(a) v = u + at (b) v = u – at (c) u = 2at+v (d) v = 2at+u

7.The point of intersection of three axes X, Y and Z is called as

a) Origin O b) Reference point c) Both a and b d) None

II. ASSERTION AND REASONING TYPE QUESTIONS

Here two statements are given- one labeled Assertion(A) and the other labeled
as Reason(R).Select the

correct answer to these questions from the codes (a), (b), (c) and (d) as given
below:

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

b) Both A and R are true and R is NOT the correct explanation of A

c) A is true but R is false

d) A is false and R is also false

1. Assertion: A particle having constant acceleration must always move on a

straight line.

Reason: When magnitude of acceleration is constant, then speed of particle

may remain constant.

2. Assertion : Displacement of a body may be zero when distance travelled by it

is not zero

Reason : The displacement is the longest distance between initial and final
position.
3. Assertion : The position-time graph of a uniform motion, in one dimension of
a body cannot have negative slope.

Reason : In one – dimensional motion the position does not reverse, so it

cannot have a negative slope.

4. Assertion: For the uniform motion,the slope of position time graph will be
constant.

Reason: The slope of position time graph represent velocityof the object and for
uniform motion it is constant

5. Assertion: A body having non zero acceleration can have a constant velocity.

Reason: Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity.

6. Assertion: The average speed of a body over a given interval of time is equal
to the average velocity of the

body in the same interval of time if a body moves in a straight line in one
direction.

Reason: Because, in this case distance travelled by a body is equal to the

displacement of the body.

7.Assertion: Position-time graph of a stationary object is a straight line parallel

to the axis.

Reason: For a stationary object, position does not change with time.

III. CASE BASED QUESTIONS

1. When an object moves along a straight line with uniform acceleration, it is

possible to relate its velocity, acceleration during motion and the distance
covered by it in a certain time interval by a set of equations known as the
equations of motion. For convenience, a set of three such equations are given
below:

v = u + at s = ut + ½ at2 2a s = v2 – u2 Where u is the initial velocity of the

object which moves with uniform acceleration a for time t, v is the final velocity
and s is the distance travelled by the object in time t.

i) Equation of motions are applicable to motion with

a) uniform acceleration c) non uniform acceleration

b) constant velocity d) none of these

ii) The distance travelled by a body is directly proportional to the square of time
taken its acceleration

a) increases b)decreases c) becomes zero d) remains constant

iii) The brakes applied to a car produce an acceleration of 10 m/s2 in the

opposite direction to the motion. If the car takes 1 s to stop after the
application of brakes, calculate the distance traveled during this time by car.

iv) An object is dropped from a tower falls with a constant acceleration of 10

m/s2. Find its speed 10 s after it was dropped.

v) A bullet hits a target with a velocity of 10 m/s and penetrates it up to a

distance of 5 cm. Find the deceleration of the bullet in the target

2. The average velocity tells us how fast an object has been moving over a given
time interval but does not tell us how fast it moves at different instants of time
during that interval. For this, we define instantaneous velocity or simply
velocity v at an instant t. The velocity at an instant is defined as the limit of the
average velocity as the time interval dt becomes infinitesimally small. In other
words v =Limit Δt 0 Δs/Δt, v = ds/dt

The variation in velocity with time for an object moving in a straight line can be
represented by a velocity-time graph. In this graph, time is represented along
the x-axis and the velocity is represented along the y-axis. The area enclosed by
velocity-time graph and the time axis will be equal to the magnitude of the
displacement and slope of velocity time graph represents acceleration of object.

Answer the following questions based on paragraph given.

i) The area under velocity time graph gives

a) Displacement over given time interval c) Acceleration

b) Velocity d) None of these

ii) Slope of velocity time graph gives

a) Acceleration c) Velocity b) Distance d) Displacement.

iii) A body is thrown up.What will be velocity and acceleration at the top

a) v=0 ,a= -g b)v= 0 ,a=g c) v = maximum, g= 0 d) v=0, g=0

iv) Draw velocity time graph for an object, starting from rest. Acceleration is
constant and positive.

v) Is it possible to have negative value in speed and displacement?

IV. TWO MARK QUESTIONS

1. Define average velocity and average acceleration. And its formulas

2. A body thrown vertically upwards. Draw its i) velocity time graph ii)
acceleration time graph

3.Define instantaneous acceleration and its formula

4.What are positive and negative acceleration in a straight line motion?

5. Can a body have zero velocity and still be accelerating ? if yes give an
example.

6.Give position time graph for one object moving with negative velocity, moving
with positive velocity and at rest.

7. What is common between the two graphs shown in the fig.below

V. THREE MARK QUESTIONS

1.From a velocity time graph, Explain how do you calculate the average
acceleration of a moving body

2. Draw the v-t graph for motions with constant acceleration.

a) Motion in positive direction with positive acceleration

b) Motion in negative direction with negative acceleration

c) Motion of an object with negative acceleration that changes direction. at

time.

3. Define the following terms

i)Instantaneous acceleration ii)Average acceleration iii) Non uniform

acceleration.
4. Draw the following graphs for an object under free fall

i) Variation of acceleration with respect to time

ii) variation of velocity with respect to time

iii) variation of distance with respect to time

VI. FIVE MARK QUESTIONS

1.Derive the second equation of motion by using velocity time graph with neat
diagram.

2. Derive position velocity relation for uniformly accelerated motion from v-t
graph.

VII. NUMERICALS

1. A body starts from point P and moves to Q. If the body returns to the same
point(P),

find i) displacement ii)distance iii) velocity iv) average speed

2. A man runs across the roof top of a tall building and jumps horizontally with
the hope of landing on the roof

top of the next building which is of lower height than the first. If his speed is
9m/s,the horizontal distance

between the two buildings is 10m and the height difference is 9m, will he be
able to land on the next building take g = 10m/s2

3. On a 60 km straight road,a bus travels the first 30km with uniform speed of
30km/hr.How fast must the bus

travel the next 30km so as to have average speed of 40km/hr for the entire trip

4. The acceleration of a particle is given by a = 3t2 + 2t +2,where time t is in

second.If the particle starts with a

velocity v = 2m/s at t = 0, then find the velocity at the end of 2s.

5. A body covers 200cm in the first 2 seconds and 220cm in next 2

seconds.What will be its velocity at the end

of 7 seconds ? Also find the displacement in 7 seconds.