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2. A car travels a distance ‘A’ to ‘B’ at a speed of 40 kmph and returns to ‘A’ at a speed
of 30 kmph. (i) What is the average speed for the whole journey? (ii) What is the
average velocity?

3. A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 3 kms. away with a speed
of 6 kmph, finding the market closed he instantly returns and walks back with speed
of 9 kmph. What is the (a) magnitude of average velocity (b) average speed of the
man during the interval of time (i) 0 to 30 min. (ii) 0 to 50 min. (iii) 0 to 40 min.

4. A ship moves due east at 12 kmph for one hour and then returns exactly towards
south to move for one hour at 5 kmph. Calculate its average velocity for the given
motion.
(6.5 kmph)
5. A car travels along a straight line with 40 kmph from A to B and returns back from B
to A with speed 60 kmph. Find the average speed of the car and its average velocity.
(48 kmph, zero)
6. A car traveled first third of a distance ‘x’ at a speed of 10 kmph and the second third
at a speed of 20 kmph and the last third with a speed of 60 kmph. Determine the
average speed of the car over the entire distance ‘x’.
(18 kmph)
7. A table clock has its minute hand 4.0 cm long. Find the average velocity of the tip of
the minute hand (a) between 6 AM to 6.30 AM (b)between 6 AM to 6.30 PM
8. On an open ground a motorist follows a track that turns to his left by an angle of 60 0
after every 500 m. Starting from a given turn, specify the displacement of the
motorist at the third, sixth and eighth turn. Compare the magnitude of the
displacement with the total path length covered by the motorist in each case.
9. A passenger arriving in a new town wishes to go from the station to a hotel located
10 km away on a straight road from the station. A dishonest cabman takes him along
a circuitous path 23 km long in 28 min. What is (a) the average speed of the taxi (b)
the magnitude of the average velocity?
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Non-Uniform Motion
1. A tennis ball is dropped on to the floor from a height of 4.00 m. It rebounds to a
height of 3.00 m. If the ball was in contact with the floor for 0.01 sec what was its
average acceleration during the impact? (1652 m/s2)
2. A body travels a distance of 2 m in 2 seconds and 2.2 m in next 4 seconds. What will
be the velocity of the object at the end of 7th sec. from the start? (0.1 ms-1)
3. A ball thrown vertically upwards with a speed of 19.6 m/s from the top of a tower
returns to the earth in 6 sec. Find the height of the tower. (58.8 m)
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4. A body travels a distance of 20 m in the 7 sec. and 24 m in the 9 sec. How much
distance shall it travel in the 15th sec? (36 m)
5. From the top of a tower 100 m in height a ball is dropped and the same time another
ball is projected vertically upwards from the ground with a velocity of 25 m/s. Find
when and where will they meet. (g=10 ms-2) (78.4m, 4s)
6. A parachutist bails out from an aeroplane and after dropping through a distance of
40 m opens the parachute and decelerates at 2 m/s -2. If he reaches the ground with a
speed of 2 m/s how long is he in the air? At what height did he bail out from the
plane? (15.8 s, 235m)
7. A body is dropped from rest at a height of 150 m and simultaneously, another body is
dropped from rest from a point 100 m above the ground. What is the difference
between heights after they have fallen for (i) 3s (ii) 5 s. Consider that the body on
reaching ground remains there and acceleration due to gravity is 10 m/s2? (50m,
25m)
8. An athlete runs a distance of 1500 m in the following manner (a) starting from rest
he accelerates uniformly at 2m/s2 till he covers a distance of 900 m (b) He then runs
the remaining distance of 600 m at the uniform speed developed. Calculate the time
taken by him to cover the two parts of the distance covered. Also find the time,
when he is at the centre of the track. (30,10,27.39)
9. A balloon is ascending at the rate of 14 m/s at a height of 98 m above the ground,
when a packet is dropped from the balloon. After how much time and with what
velocity does it reach the ground? (6.123s, 4.99 m/s)
10. A stone is dropped from the top of a cliff and is found to travel 44.1 m in the last
second before it reaches the ground. Find the height of the cliff. (122.5m)
11. A juggler maintains four balls in motion, making each of them to raise a height of 20
m from his hand. What time interval should he maintain, for the proper distance
between them? (1 s)
12. The distance x of a particle moving in one dimension, under the action of a force is
related to time as (t – 3)2 = x where x is in meters and t in sec. Find the displacement
of the particle when its velocity is zero. (Zero)
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13. A juggler throws n balls into air. He throws one whenever the previous one is at its
highest point. How high do the balls rise if he throws n balls each sec?(g/2n2)
14. A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 20 m/s from the top of a
multistory building. The height of the point from where the ball is thrown is 25.0 m
from the ground. (a) How high does the ball rise? And (b) how long will it be before
the ball hits the ground? (g=10ms-2) (20m, 5s)
15. A car moving along a straight highway with a speed 0f 126 kmph is brought to rest
within a distance of 200 m. What is the retardation of the car and how long does it
take for the car to stop?
16. A player throws a ball upwards with an initial speed of 29.4 ms -1.
(a) What is the direction of acceleration during the upward motion of his journey?
(b) What are the velocity and acceleration of the ball at the highest point of its
motion?
(c) Choose the x= 0 m and t = 0 s to be the location and time of the ball at its highest
point, vertically downward direction to be positive direction of x-axis and give the
signs of position, velocity and acceleration during upwards and downward
motion.
(d) To what height does the ball rise and after how long does the ball return to the
player’s hands? (g = 10 m/s2)
17. The position of an object moving along x-axis is given by x= a + bt2 where a = 8.5 m, b
= 2.5 m/s2 and t is measured in seconds. What is its velocity at t = measured in
seconds. What is its velocity at t = 0 s and t = 2.0 s. What is average velocity between
t= 2.0 s and t= 4.0 s. (0, 10, 15)
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18. The position vector of a particle is given by r = 3.0ti + 2.0t j + 5.0k where t is in
seconds and the coefficients have the proper units for r to be in meters. (a) Find v
(t) and a (t) (b) Find the magnitude and direction of v (t) at t=1.0 s.
19. The position of a particle is given by r = 3.0ti – 2.0t2j + 4.0k m where t is in seconds
and the coefficients have the proper units for r to be in meters (a) Find the v and a of
the particle. (b) What is the magnitude and direction of the velocity of particle at t =
2 sec?
20. The distance x of a particle moving in one dimension, under the action of a constant
force is related to time t by equation t = √x +3 where x is in meters and t is in
seconds. Find the displacement of the particle when its velocity is zero. (Zero)
21. An object of mass m is covering distance x, in proportional to t 3/2, where t is the time
elapsed. (a) What conclusion might you draw about the acceleration? Is it increasing,
decreasing or constant? (b) What will be the force acting on the object?