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Module:2 D.O.S – 7-7-19

Projectile Motion
1. A long jumper leaves the ground with an initial velocity of 12 m/s at an angle of 30-degrees
above the horizontal. Determine the time of flight, the horizontal distance, and the peak height
of the long-jumper.
2. A pool ball leaves a 0.60-meter high table with an initial horizontal velocity of 2.4 m/s.
Predict the time required for the pool ball to fall to the ground and the horizontal distance
between the table's edge and the ball's landing location.
3. Romeo is throwing pebbles gently up to Juliet’s window, and he wants the pebbles to hit the
window with only a horizontal component of velocity. He is standing at the edge of a rose
garden 8.0 m below her window and 8.5m from the base of the wall (Fig. 3–49). How fast are
the pebbles going when they hit her window?

4. A football is kicked with an initial velocity of 25 m/s at an angle of 45-degrees with the
horizontal. Determine the time of flight, the horizontal distance, and the peak height of the
football. Will it cross a pole of height 12 metre at distance 10 meter from the initial point.
5. A ball is thrown with initial velocity 40 m/s and angle of inclination 30° from the top of a
stand 25 metres above the ground.
i. Find how high the ball rises, how long it takes to get there, what its
speed is then, and how far it is horizontally from the stand.
ii. Find the flight time, the horizontal range, and the impact speed and
angle.
6. A ball is kicked at an angle of 30° with the ground.
a) What should be the initial velocity of the ball so that it hits a target
that is 30 meters away at a height of 1.8 meters?
b) What is the time for the ball to reach the target?
7. A projectile starting from ground hits a target on the ground located at a distance of 1000
meters after 40 seconds.
a) What is the size of the angle θ?
b) At what initial velocity was the projectile launched?
8. The pilot of an aeroplane flying horizontally at a height of 2000 m with a constant speed of 540 kmph
wishes to hit a target on the ground. At what distance from the target should release the bomb to hit the
target?

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9. An aeroplane takes off at an angle of 450 to the horizontal. If the vertical component of its
velocity is 300 kmph, calculate its actual velocity. What is the horizontal component of
velocity?
10. The horizontal range of a projectile is 4√3 times its maximum height. Find the angle of
projection.
11. The benches of a gallery in a cricket stadium are 1 m wide and 1 m high. A batsman strikes
the ball at a level one metre above the ground and hits a mammoth sixer. The ball starts at 35
m/s at an angle of 53° with the horizontal. The benches are perpendicular to the plane of
motion and the first bench is 110 m from the batsman. On which bench will the ball hit ?
12. In a soccer practice session the football is kept at the centre of the field 40 yards from the 10
ft high goalposts. A goal is attempted by kicking the football at a speed of 64 ft/s at an angle
of 45° to the horizontal. Will the ball reach the goal post ?
13. A ball is projected from a point on the floor with a speed of 15 m/s at an angle of 60° with the
horizontal. Will it hit a vertical wall 5 m away from the point of projection and perpendicular
to the plane of projection without hitting the floor ? Will the answer differ if the wall is 22 m
away ?

- River and Boat—

Up Stream : Boat is moving opposite to flow of river
Down Stream: Boat is moving along with river
1. A river 400 m wide is flowing at a rate of 2.0 m/s. A boat is sailing at a velocity of 10 m/s
with respect to the water, in a direction perpendicular to the river. (a) Find the time taken by
the boat to reach the opposite bank. (b) How far from the point directly opposite to the
starting point does the boat reach the opposite bank ?
2. A motorboat travelling 4 m/s, East encounters a current travelling 7.0 m/s, North. What is the
resultant velocity of the motorboat? If the width of the river is 80 meters wide, then how
much time does it take the boat to travel shore to shore? What distance downstream does the
boat reach the opposite shore?
3. A motorboat traveling 6 m/s, East encounters a current traveling 3.8 m/s, South.
a. What is the resultant velocity of the motor boat?
b. If the width of the river is 120 meters wide, then how much time does it take
the boat to travel shore to shore?
c. What distance downstream does the boat reach the opposite shore?
4. If the current velocity in question #3 were increased to 5 m/s, then
a. how much time would be required to cross the same 120-m wide river?
b. what distance downstream would the boat travel during this time?

5. A boat is moving with velocity of 3 i + 4 j in river and water is moving with a velocity of - 3 i
- 4 j with respect to ground. Relative velocity of boat with respect to water is-
6. A river is flowing from W to E with a speed of 5 m/min. A man can swim in still water with a
velocity 10 m/min. In which direction should the man swim so as to take the shortest
possible path to go to the south ?

- Rain and Wind-

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7. A man holds his umbrella vertically up while walking due west with a constant velocity of
magnitude vm = 1.5 m/sec in rain. To protect himself from rain, he has to rotate his umbrella
through an angle φ = 30° when he stops walking. Find the velocity of the rain.
8. A boy is running on a horizontal road with a velocity of 5 m/s. At what angle should he hold
his umbrella in order to protect himself from the rain, if it is raining with a velocity of 10 m/s
vertically downward ?
9. A boy is moving with uniform speed 30 km/hr towards east and a girl is moving with uniform
speed 4 km/hr towards north, while having morning walk in a garden. The boy is
continuously looking at the girl. What is the velocity of girl as seen by boy ?
10. a man walking with a speed of 3 km/hr finds the rain drops falling vertically downwards.
when the man increases his speed to 6 km/hr he find that the rain drops are falling making an
angle of 30 degree with the vertical. find the speed of the rain drops.

Extra Questions on Relative

Motion
11. A motorcycle traveling on the highway at a speed of 120 km/h passes a car traveling at a speed
of 90 km/h. From the point of view of a passenger on the car, what is the velocity of the
motorcycle.
12. A ball is kicked off the back of a pickup truck traveling at 50 km/h. A pedestrian on the
ground sees the ball hit the pavement and then bounce straight up. What was the velocity of
the ball relative to the truck?
13. A duck swims at a constant speed from one side of a river to the other side in a time of 4
seconds. The river is 6 meters wide and it is flowing at a speed of 2 m/s. What is the velocity of
the duck and what is its direction of travel, with respect to ground?
14. A train travels at 60 m/s to the east with respect to the ground. A businessman on the train
runs at 5 m/s to the west with respect to the train. Find the velocity of the man with respect to
the ground.
15. A man walking eastward at 5 m/s observes that wind is blowing from the north. On doubling
his speed eastward, he observes that wind is blowing from north-east. Find the velocity of the
wind.

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Module:4
Laws of Motion
1. A block of mass 4 kg is kept on a rough horizontal surface. The coefficient of static
friction is 0.8. If a force of 19 N is applied on the block parallel to the floor, then the
force of friction between the block and floor is:

2. A chain lies on a rough horizontal table. It starts sliding when one-fourth of its length
hangs over the edge of the table. The coefficient of static friction between the chain and
the surface of the table is

3. An open knife edge of mass 200 g is dropped from height 5 m on a cardboard. If the
knife edge penetrates distance 2 m into the cardboard, the average resistance offered by
the cardboard to the knife edge is:

4. A spring balance is attached to the ceiling of a lift. A man hangs his bag on the spring
and the spring reads 49 N, when the lift is stationary. If the lift moves downward with
an acceleration of 5 m/square second, the reading of the spring balance will be:
5. A machine gun fires 10 bullets/s, each of mass 10g, the speed of each bullet is 20 cm/s,
then force of recoil is:
6. A block is moving up an inclined plane of inclination 60 degree with velocity of 20 m/s
and stops after 2.00 s. If g = 10 m/second square then the approximate value of
coefficient of friction is:
7. A block A of mass 2 kg rests on another block B of mass 8 kg which rests on a
horizontal floor. The coefficient of friction between A and B is 0.2 while that between
B and floor is 0.5. When a horizontal force 25 N is applied on the block B, the force of
friction between A and B is:
8. Starting from rest, a body slides down a 45 degree inclined plane in twice the time it
takes to slide down the same distance in the absence of friction. The coefficient of
friction between the body and the inclined plane is:
9. A block of mass 2 kg is placed on the floor. The coefficient of static friction is 0.4. If a
force of 2.8 N is applied on the block parallel to floor, the force of friction between the
block and floor is: (Take g = 10 m/second square)
10. The minimum velocity (in m/s) with which a car driver must traverse a flat curve of
radius 150 m and coefficient of friction 0.6 to avoid skidding is:
11. A life is moving down with acceleration a. A man in the lift drops a ball inside the lift.
The acceleration of the ball as observed by the man in the lift and a man standing
stationary on the ground are respectively:
12. A heavy uniform chain lies on a horizontal top of table. If the coefficient of friction
between the chain and the table is 0.25 then the maximum percentage of the length of
the chain that can hang over one edge of the table is:

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13. A block is released from top of a smooth inclined plane. It reaches the bottom of the
plane in 6 s. The time taken by the body to cover the first half of the inclined plane is:

14. A block of mass 0.1 kg is held against a wall by applying a horizontal force of 5N on
the block. If the coefficient of friction between the block and the wall is 0.5, the
magnitude of the frictional force acting on the block is:

15. A block rests on a rough inclined plane making an angle of 30 degree with the
horizontal. The coefficient of static friction between he block and the plane is 0.8. If the
frictional force on the block is 10N, the mass of the block in (kg) is: (Take g = 10
m/second square)
16. The ratio of the weight of a man in a stationary lift and when it is moving downwards
with uniform acceleration a is 3:2 then the value of a is:
17. A constant retarding force of 50 N is applied to a body of mass 20 kg moving initially
with a speed of 15 ms–1. How long does the body take to stop? [NCERT]
18. A constant force acting on a body of mass 3.0 kg changes its speed from 2.0 m s–1 to
3.5 m s–1 in 25 s. The direction of the motion of the body remains unchanged. What is
the magnitude and direction of the force? [NCERT]
19. The driver of a three-wheeler moving with a speed of 36 km/h sees a child standing in
the middle of the road and brings his vehicle to rest in 4.0 s just in time to save the
child. What is the average retarding force on the vehicle? The mass of the three-
wheeler is 400 kg and the mass of the driver is 65 kg. [NCERT]
20. Two bodies of masses 10 kg and 20 kg respectively kept on a smooth, horizontal
surface are tied to the ends of a light string. A horizontal force F = 600 N is applied to
(i) A, (ii) B along the direction of string. What is the tension in the string in each case?
21. Two masses and are on inclines and are connected together by a string as shown in
Fig.. The coefficient of kinetic friction between each mass and its incline is 0.3 If Ma
=2kg moves up, and Mb =5 kg moves down, determine their acceleration. [Ignore
masses of the (frictionless) pulley and the cord.]

22. A train locomotive is pulling two cars of the same mass behind it, Fig.. Determine the
ratio of the tension in the coupling (think of it as a cord) between the locomotive and
the first car to that between the first car FT1 and the second car FT2 for any nonzero
acceleration of the train.

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Module: 5
Pullies
1. Ignoring friction, calculate the acceleration of the system below and the tension in the rope.

Fig1 fig 2
2. A 2.00 kg mass and a 3.00 kg mass are attached to a lightweight cord that passes over a
pulley. The hanging masses are free to move. Acceleration, Tension = ?

3. Find the acceleration of the following system (if no friction)

Fig3 Fig4
4. A 2.5 kg counterweight is connected (over a pulley) to a 4.5 kg window that slides vertically
in its frame. How much force must you exert to start the window opening with an upward
acceleration of 0.18 m/s2?

5. The heights of the two blocks in the diagram below differ by 36cm. When they are released
from rest, the higher block falls while the lower block rises. One of the blocks has a mass that
is three times the mass of the other block, the pulleys are massless and frictionless, and the
string doesn't stretch.

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Which is the heavier block? Explain.Find the distance that the lower block rises when the two
blocks are aligned. Find the time it takes for the two blocks to be aligned.
6. A rope is fastened to a 50.0kg block in two places and passes through a system of two
pulleys, as shown in the diagram below. The block rests on a rough (coefficient of static
friction is 0.400) horizontal surface. The bigger pulley is then pulled upward with gradually
increasing force. Both pulleys are massless and frictionless, and the rope is also massless. The
smaller pulley is fastened to the floor and the both pulleys are positioned such that the rope is
perpendicular to the floor on one end and parallel to it on the other. When the pull force
reaches a certain magnitude, the block just barely begins to slide to the right. Compute the
magnitude of this pull force.
7. Consider a system of masses 1.2 kg and 1.8 kg as shown. The pulleys are massless and
frictionless. The acceleration of the block with mass 1.2 kg is:

Fig :7 Fig :8
8. Find the accelerations a1 and a2 of each block, and the tension T.
9. With what force magnitude T must the person pull on the cable in order to cause the scale A
to read 2000 N?

Fig 9

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10. Consider the system shown porting a mass of 30 kg. 1. How much force is required to lift the
mass?

11. Masses M1 and M2 are connected to a system of strings and pulleys as shown. The strings are
massless and inextensible, and the pulleys are massless and frictionless. Find the acceleration
of M1

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Module: 6
Collision and Momentum
1. How long does it take a 2000-Kg car to stop from a velocity of 35 m/s if a braking
force of 4000 Newtons is used?
2. Object A of mass m1 is moving at a velocity v1 to the right. It collides and sticks to
object B of mass m2 moving in the same direction as object A with a velocity v2. After
collision, the two objects have a velocity equal to (1/2)(v1 + v2). What is the
relationship between m1 and m2?
3. A 2-Kilogram object slides, on a smooth surface, towards the north at a velocity of 5
meters per second. The object hits a fixed pole and is deflected from north to east by
an angle of 60° and has a velocity of 5 meters per second. The change in the magnitude
of the northward component of the moment of the object is
4. An object of mass 4 Kg is moving towards the east at a velocity of 6 meters per
second. It collides and sticks to a 6-Kg object moving with a velocity of 5 meters per
second in the same direction. How much kinetic energy was lost in the collision?
5. Two objects A and B of masses 1 and 3 Kg are held by a compressed massless spring
and are at rest. When the spring is released, object A moves to the left with a velocity
of 9 m/s. What is the velocity (magnitude and direction) of object B?
6. An object A of mass m1 is moving at a speed v1 in a straight line to the right. Another
object B of mass m2 is moving to the left in the same path as object A but in the
opposite direction. What would be the speed of object B be so that when the two
objects collide they stick to each other and stop?
7. Consider a 42,000 kg train car travelling at 10 m/s toward another train car. After the two
cars collide, they couple together and move along at 6 m/s. What is the mass of the second
train car?
8. An open knife edge of mass 200 g is dropped from height 5 m on a cardboard. If the
knife edge penetrates distance 2 m into the cardboard, the average resistance offered
by the cardboard to the knife edge is:
9. A tennis ball of mass m=.060 kg and speed strikes a wall at a 45° angle and rebounds
with the same speed v =28 m/s at 45° . What is the impulse (magnitude and direction)
given to the ball?
10. A constant friction force of 25 N acts on a 65-kg skier for 15 s on level snow.What is
the skier’s change in velocity?
11. A nucleus is at rest in the laboratory frame of reference. Show that if it disintegrates
into two smaller nuclei the products must move in opposite directions.
12. Two billiard balls each of mass 0.05 kg moving in opposite directions with speed 6
ms–1 collide and rebound with the same speed. What is the impulse imparted to each
ball due to the other?
13. When a mass M experiences a velocity change of v in a time of t, it experiences a
force of F. Assuming the same velocity change of v, the force experienced by a mass
of 2M in a time of (1/2)t is ____.
14. Find out System Momentum Before Collision, System Momentum After Collision,
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A.

B .

C.

D.

E.
15. Find Total system Kinetic Energy before and after collision
and identify type of collision (Elastic, Partially Inelastic or Perfectly
Inelastic)

A.

B.

C.
16. A 46-gram tennis ball is launched from a 1.35-kg homemade cannon. If the cannon recoils with a speed of 2.1 m/s,
determine the muzzle speed of the tennis ball.
17. Two billiard balls, assumed to have identical mass, collide in a perfectly elastic collision. Ball A is heading East at
12 m/s. Ball B is moving West at 8.0 m/s. Determine the post-collision velocities of Ball A and Ball B.

18. . A 3.0-kg object is moving forward with a speed of 6.0 m/s. The object then
encounters a force of 2.5 N for 8.0 seconds in the direction of its motion. The object
then collides head-on with a wall and heads in the opposite direction with a speed of
5.0 m/s. Determine the impulse delivered by the wall to the object.

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Module: 7
Work, Energy & Power
1. A 50-kg platform diver hits the water below with a kinetic energy of 5000 Joules. The height
(relative to the water) from which the diver dove was approximately____ meters.
2. Which requires more work: lifting a 50.0 kg crate a vertical distance of 2.0
meters or lifting a 25.0 kg crate a vertical distance of 4.0 meters?
3. A 50 N object is lifted to 10 meters (a) After the object has fallen 5 meters, what will be its KE
(b) KE just before hitting the ground
4. A 10.0 kg mass sliding on a frictionless horizontal surface at 7.00 m/s hits a spring that is
attached to a wall. The spring has a spring constant of 5000 N/m. a) Determine the maximum
compression of the spring b) Determine the speed of the box in the above problem when the
spring had a compression of 0.100 m.
5. A human cannonball uses a spring-loaded cannon to launch himself. He has a mass of 70 kg,
and the spring compresses a total distance of 1.40 m. If he needs a launch velocity of 18.0 m/s,
what should be the value of the spring’s spring constant?
6. A 6.00 kg mass is acted on by a net force
aaa
shown in the graph above. a) if the object
8N
started from rest, what is its velocity after it has
moved 10.0 m? b) If the object in initially was
moving at 5.00 m/s in the direction of the net
0 6 10
force, what was its speed after it had moved a
distance of 6.00 m?
7. In the diagram above the pulley is frictionless. Mass 1 is 3.00 kg and mass 2 is 7.00 kg, and the
two masses are released from rest. After the two masses have each moved 0.500 m, what are
their velocities?
8. A 10.0 kg mass is dropped from a tall building. During the first second of the fall, what was
the average power exerted by gravity? What was the average power exerted by gravity during
the first 5.00 seconds of the fall?
9. A football of mass 2.5kg is lifted up to the top of a cliff that is 180m high. How much
potential energy does the football gain?
10. A person of mass 70kg runs up a flight of stairs with a vertical height of 5m. If the trip takes
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11. A lift motor has to move a fully laden lift 4m between floors in 1.5s. The lift has a mass of
1850kg, calculate power
12. Work done in time t on a body of mass m which is accelerated from rest to a speed v in time of
t as a function of time t is given by
13. A body of mass 10 kg at rest is acted upon simultaneously by two forces 4N and 3N at right
angles to each other. The kinetic energy of the body at the end of 10 sec is
14. If the momentum of a body is increased by 100 %, then the percentage increase in the kinetic
energy is
15. A uniform chain of length L and mass M is lying on a smooth table and one third of its length
is hanging vertically down over the edge of the table. If g is acceleration due to gravity, the
work required to pull the hanging part on to the table is
16. A block of mass 2kg is released from A on the track that is one quadrant of a circle of radius
1m. It slides down the track and reaches B with a speed of 1 4 ms and finally stops at C at a
distance of 3m from B. The work done against the force of friction is
17. A baseball player catches a 163-gram baseball which is moving horizontally at a speed of 39.8
m/s. Determine the force which she must apply to the baseball if hermitt recoils a horizontal
distance of 25.1 cm.
18. A 221-gram ball is thrown at an angle of 17.9 degrees and a speed of 36.7 m/s from the top of
a 39.8-m high cliff. Determine the impact speed of the ball when it strikes the ground. Assume
negligible air resistance.
19. Suzie Lovtaski has a mass of 49.7 kg. She is at rest on top of a hill with a height of 92.6 m and
an incline angle of 19.2 degrees. She coasts down the hill to the bottom and eventually comes
to a stop; she never uses her poles to apply a force. The coefficient of friction is 0.0873 along
the hill and 0.527 along the horizontal surface at the bottom. What total distance will Suzie
coast (include both incline and level surface)?
20. A body of mass 2 kg initially at rest moves under the action of an applied horizontal force of 7
N on a table with coefficient of kinetic friction = 0.1. Compute the work done by the applied
force in 10 s, work done by friction in 10 s, work done by the net force on the body in 10 s,
change in kinetic energy of the body in 10 s, and interpret your results.
21. Question 6.3: [NCERT]
22. Question 6.4: [NCERT]
23. A body is moving uni directionally under the influence of a source of constant power. Its
displacement in time t is proportional to….
24. Question 6.15: [NCERT]

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Module: 7
Rotation
1. A 60 kg man and his 40 kg dog are sitting together at the left end of a boat that is 8.0 m long.
The boat’s mass is 100 kg, and we can assume the boat’s center of mass is in the center of
the boat. The boat starts out at rest in the middle of a calm lake. Ignore all friction and water
resistance throughout this problem.
(a) Where is the center of mass of the boat + man + dog system? Indicate your answer by
stating the distance from the man to the center of mass of the system. [ 2 m]
(b) Suppose that the dog moves to the other end of the boat, while the man stays still. How
far does the boat move as a result? Indicate the magnitude as well as the direction (to the
left or to the right) of the boat’s displacement.
[the boat has moved 1.6m to the left, because the center-of-mass of the system
must remain fixed]
(c) After reaching the other end of the boat, the dog jumps off with a horizontal velocity of
2.0 m/s, directed to the right, as measured relative to the water. What is the speed with
which the boat and the man drift in the opposite direction? [-0.5 m/s]
2. A system consists of three balls at different locations near the origin, as shown at right. Ball 1
has a mass of 2.0 kg and is located on the x-axis at x1 = –2.0 m; ball 2 has an unknown mass
and is located at (x2 = +4.0 m, y2 = +3.0 m); ball 3 is somewhere on the y-axis at an unknown
location, and it has a mass of 1.0 kg. The coordinates of the center-of-mass of this system
are (xCM = 0, yCM = +2.0 m).
(a) Calculate the mass of ball 2. [1 kg]
(b) Find the location of ball 3. [5m]
3. The moment of inertia of an oxygen molecule about an axis through the centre of mass and
perpendicular to the line joining the atoms is 1.95 × 10 46 kgm2 . The mass of an oxygen
atom is 2.66 × 10 26 kg. What is the distance between the atoms? [1.21 x 10^-10 m ]
4. A hole of radius r has been drilled in a flat, circular plate of radius R. The centre of the hole is
at a distance d from the centre of the circle. The mass of the complete body was M. Find the
moment of inertia for rotation about an axis through the centre of the plate

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Module: 8
GRAVITATION
1. Suppose there existed a planet that went around the sun twice as fast as the earth.What
would be its orbital size as compared to that of the earth?
2. Io, one of the satellites of Jupiter, has an orbital period of 1.769 days and the radius of
the orbit is 4.22 × 108 m. Show that the mass of Jupiter is about one-thousandth that of
the sun.
3. A rocket is fired from the earth towards the sun. At what distance from the earth’s
centre is the gravitational force on the rocket zero? Mass of the sun = 2 ×1030 kg,
mass of the earth = 6 × 1024 kg. Neglect the effect of other planets etc. (orbital radius
= 1.5 × 1011 m).
4. How will you ‘weigh the sun’, that is estimate its mass? The mean orbital radius of
the
earth around the sun is 1.5 × 108 km.
5. Assuming the earth to be a sphere of uniform mass density, how much would a body
weigh half way down to the centre of the earth if it weighed 250 N on the surface?
6. Two stars each of one solar mass (= 2× 1030 kg) are approaching each other for a head
on collision. When they are a distance 109 km, their speeds are negligible. What is the
speed with which they collide? The radius of each star is 104 km. Assume the stars to
remain undistorted until they collide. (Use the known value of G).
7.
Calculate the height above the Earth’s surface at which the value of acceleration due
to gravity reduces to half its value on the Earth’s surface. Assume the Earth to be a
sphere of radius 6400 km.
8. The maximum height upto which astronaut can jump on the Earth is 0.75 m. With the
same effort, to what height can he jump on the moon? The mean density of the moon
is (2/3) that of the Earth and the radius of the moon is (1/4) that of the Earth.
9. A satellite of 600 kg orbits the Earth at a height of 500 km from its surface. Calculate
its (i) kinetic energy (ii) potential energy and (iii) total energy ( M = 6 × 1024 kg ; R =
6.4 × 106 m)
10. If two sphere of same material and same radius (r) are touching each other, the show
that the gravitational force will be directly proportional to (r4).
11. Why value of “g” more at poles in comparison to equators.
12. Derive expression for gravitational field at center due to a semicircular ring of mass
M and Radius R
#[Intergration based question]

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1. A block rests on air inclined plane with enough friction to prevent it from sliding
down. To start the block moving, is it easier to push it up the plane, down the plane or
sideways? Why?
2. A body is acted upon by a number of external forces. Can it remain at rest ?
3. A body of mass m = 1 kg falls from a height h = 20 m from the ground level
(a) What is the magnitude of total change in momentum of the body before it strikes the
ground?
(b) What is the corresponding average force experienced by it? (g = 10m/sec 2).

4. A body of mass 2 kg is moved towards east with a uniform speed of 2 m/s. A force of 3 N is
applied to it towards north. Calculate the magnitude of the displacement of the body
2S after the application.

5. A metal of sphere is hung by by a string fixed to a wall. The force acting on the sphere are
shown in figure. Which of the following statement is correct

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7. In the shown figure the tension in the horizontal cord is 30 N. Find the weight of the body B.

8. Find the acceleration of the two blocks m1 and m2.Assume pulleys are massless and
frictionless and the strings are inextensible.

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9.

10. A block of mass 2 kg is pressed against a rigid vertical wall by a horizontal force of 100 N. If
co-efficient of static and kinetic friction are each equal to 0.3 then find the magnitude and
direction of frictional force on the block.

11. A pulley fixed to the ceiling of an elevator car carries a thread whose ends are attached to the
masses m1 and m2. The car starts going up with an acceleration a o. Assuming the masses
ofthe pulley and the thread as well as the friction to be negligible, find :
(a) the acceleration of the load m1 relative to the elevator shaft and relative to the car.
(b) the force exerted by the pulley on the ceiling of the car. Given, m 1 > m2.

12. A stone of mass 0.25 kg tied to the end of a string is whirled round in a circle of radius 1.5 m
with a speed of 40 rev/min in a horizontal plane. What is the tension in the string? What is the
maximum speed with which the stone can be whirled around if the string can with stand a
maximum tension of 200 N?

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13. In the figure shown co-efficient of friction between the block B and C is 0.4. There is no
friction between the block C and the surface on which it is placed. The\ system of blocks is
released from rest in the shown situation. Find the distance moved by the block C when block
A descends through a distance 2 m. Given masses of the blocks are mA = 3 kg, mB = 5 kg and
mC = 10 kg.

14. A mass of 200 kg. is placed on a rough inclined plane of angle 30 . If coefficient of limiting
friction is 0.577 Find the greatest and the least forces in Newton, acting parallel to the plane
to keep the mass in equilibrium .
15. A block of mass 2 kg is pushed normally against a rough vertical wall with a force of 40 N,
coefficient of static friction being 0.5. Another horizontal force of 15 N, is applied on the block
in a direction parallel to the wall. Will the block move? If yes, in which direction and with
what minimum acceleration ? If no, find the frictional force exerted by the wall on the block.

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Particles of masses 2 kg, 2 kg, 1 kg and 1 kg are placed at the corners

A, B, C and D of a square of side L as shown in figure. Find the centre
of mass of the system.

Centre of mass is at point X (1, 1, 1) when system consists of particles of masses 2, 3, 4

and 5 kg. If the centre of mass shifts to point Y (2,2,2) on removal of the mass of 5 kg

what was its position.

A thin homogeneous lamina is in the form of a
circular disc of radius R. .From it a circular
hole(exactly half the radius of the lamina and
touching the lamina's circumference) is cut off.
Find the centre of mass of the remaining part

In the HCl molecule, the separation between the nuclei of the two atoms is about 1.29Å.
Find the approximate location of the centre of mass of the molecule, given that chlorine
atoms is 35.5 times as massive as hydrogen atom and nearly all the mass of an atom is
concentrated in its nucleus.

Find the centre of mass of a uniform semi circular ring of radius R and mass M.

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MISCLLENIOUS PROBLEMS ( Newtonian-Physics)

(Circular Motion + Work Energy + Gravitation)

1. A ball of mass 2.6 Kg starting from rest, falls a vertical distance 55 cm before striking a vertical coiled
spring, which it compresses an amount Y= 15 cm Determine the spring stiffness constant k of the
spring. Assume the spring has negligible mass, and ignore air resistance. Measure all distances from
the point where the ball first touches the uncompressed spring ( y=0 at this point). [ A. 1590 N/m,
0.150 m]

Fig-1 Fig-2
2. A mass m is attached to a spring which is held stretched a distance x by a force F, and then released
The spring pulls the mass to the left, towards its natural equilibrium length. Assuming there is no
friction, determine the speed of the mass m when the spring returns: (a) to its normal length (x = 0); (b)
to half its original extension (x/2). [A. (Fx/m)1/2 ; (3Fx/4m)1/2] .
3. A 55-kg skier starts from rest at the top of a ski jump, point A in Fig, and travels down the ramp. If
friction and air resistance can be neglected, (a) determine her speed vB when she reaches the horizontal
end of the ramp at B. (b) Determine the distance s to where she strikes the ground at C.

Fig-3 Fig-4
4. A ball is attached to a horizontal cord of length whose other end is fixed, Fig.. (a) If the ball is
released, what will be its speed at the lowest point of its path? (b)A peg is located a distance h directly
below the point of attachment of the cord. If “h=0.80l” what will be the speed of the ball when it
reaches the top of its circular path about the peg?
5. A 10 g bullet is fired from a rifle horizontally into a 5 kg block of wood suspended by a string and the
bullet gets embedded in the block. The impact causes the block to swing to a height of 5 cm above its
initial level. Calculate the initial velocity of the bullet. [Ans: 496.0 m s-1]
6. Use the law of conservation of energy (assume no friction) to fill in the blanks at the various marked
positions for a 1000-kg roller coaster car. [ A: h = 45.9 m B: v = 0 m/s C: KE = 250 000 J D: h =
20.4m E: v = 22.4 m/s (from 250 000 = 0.5*1000*v^2) F: KE = 450 000 J G: PE = 0 J H: v = 31.6 m/s
I: a = 7.07 m/s/s

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Fig-6 Fig-7

7. The frictionless track for a toy car includes a loop-the-loop of radius R. How high, measured from
thebottom of the loop, must the car be placed to start from rest on the approaching section of track and
go all the way around the loop? [Ans: y1> 5R/2]
8. In the diagram below, the spring has a force constant of 5000 N/m, the block has a
mass of 6.20 kg, and the height h of the hill is 5.25 m. determine the compression of
the spring such that the block just makes it to the top of the hill. Assume that there are
no non conservative forces involved. [ Ans. 0.357 m]

Fig -7 Fig-8

9. At point A in the figure shown below, a spring (spring constant k = 1000 N/m) is
compressed 50.0 cm by a 2.00 kg block. When released the block travels over the
frictionless track until it is launched into the air at point B. It lands at point C. The
inclined part of the track makes an angle of θ = 55.0° with the horizontal and point B
is a height h = 4.50 m above the ground. How far horizontally is point C from point
B? [Ans. 5.52 m]
10. In the diagram below, a 5.00kg block slides from rest at a height of h1 = 1.75 m down
to a horizontal surface where it passes over a 2.00 m rough patch. The rough patch has
a coefficient of kinetic friction μk = 0.25. What height, h2 , does the block reach on
the θ = 30.0° incline? [Ans. 1.25 m]

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Fluid (Manometer)

1. The below figure shows an inclined U-tube mercury manometer. The vertical end of the tube is exposed to a gas of
gauge pressure 50 kPa and the inclined end is exposed to the atmosphere. The inclined part of the tube is at an
angle of 30o with the horizontal. Find the value of h (in cm) (take g = 9.8 m/s 2, ρmercury = 13600 kg/m3) [Ans 75 Cm]

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2. In the manometer given above, 2 immiscible fluids mercury (ρ = 13600 kg/m3) and water (ρ = 1000 kg/m 3) are used
as manometric fluids. The water end is exposed to atmosphere (100 kPa) and the mercury end is exposed to a gas.
At this position, the interface between the fluids is at the bottom most point of the manometer. Ignore the width of the
manometer tube and the radius of curvature. The value of h is found to be 9.45 m. The height of the mercury column
is given to be 75 cm. Find the gauge pressure of the gas. (g = 9.8 m/s 2) [100 Kpa]
3.

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