PHYISCS – KINEMATICS

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01. A boat can travel at a speed of 3ms on still water. A boatman wants to cross
the river while covering the shortest possible distance. In what direction
1
should he row with respect to the bank, if the speed of the water is 4ms ?
4
tan 1  
1) making an angle of  3  with the bank and he has to row down stream
3
sin 1  
2) making an angle of  4  with the bank and he has to row down stream
3
cos 1  
3) making an angle of  4  with the bank and he has to row up stream

3
tan 1  
4) making an angle of  4  with the bank and he has to row up stream

02. A car is traveling on a highway at a speed 25m/s. A passenger in a car throws

0
a ball at an angle 37 with horizontal in a plane perpendicular the motion of the
car. The ball is projected with a speed of 10m/s relative to car. What may be
the initial velocity of ball in unit vector rotation.

1) 25i  8 j  6 k 2) 10 i  8 j  6 k 3) 10 i  25 j  6 k 4) 25 i  6 j  8 k
03. Ball A was dropped from the top of a tall building. At the same height ball B was
thrown straight downward. Neglecting the effects of air friction, compare their
accelerations while they were falling
1) Their accelerations are equal
2) Ball A has the greater acceleration
3) Ball B has the greater acceleration
Inintially A has greater acceleration and after some time B has greater
4)
acceleration
04. Wind is blowing at constant velocity V towards west. A man initially at rest
starts moving with constant acceleration a towards north. Then the moment
of time at which direction of wind appears south west to him is
V 2V
(1) a (2) a
 |V|
(3) | a | (4) none of these.
05. Twelve persons are initially at the twelve corners of a regular polygon of
twelve sides of side a. Each person now moves with uniform speed V in such
a manner that 1 is always directed towards 2, 2 towards 3, 3 towards 4 and so
on. The distance travelled by each person before they meet is
2a 2a
(1) 2  3 (2) 2  3
2a a
(3) 3 (4) 2  3

06. A boat is moving towards east with velocity 4 m/s with respect to still water and
river is flowing towards north with velocity 2 m/s and the wind is blowing towards
north with velocity 6 m/s. The direction of the flag blown over by the wind hoisted
on the boat is:
(1) north-west (2) south-east
(3) tan–1(1/2) with east (4) north
07. A particle is projected from point A at an angle of
53º with horizontal. At the same time wedge starts
a
from rest and moves with constant acceleration a
as shown. The value of a for which the particle P
strikes the plane perpendicular to it at
 4 2 wedge 45º 53º
P is  tan 53º   g  10m / s
 
 3  A

2 2 2 2
(1) 10m / s (2) 100m / s (3) 130m / s (4) 140m / s
08. A particle is projected with an initial speed u form a point at height h above the
horizontal plane as shown is the fig. Find the maximum range on the
horizontal plane

u 2  2 gh 2gh u
u u u 2  2 gh
1) g 2) g 3) g 4)
2
u  2 gh
g
09. The maximum angle to the horizontal at which a stone can be thrown
and always be moving away from the thrower is
 2 8
sin 1 sin 1
1) 3 2) 450 3) 9 4)
tan 1 3
v  u x ˆi  u y ˆj
10. A body is projected from ground at the instant t = 0 with velocity
where ux and uy are constants. At the instant t = 2s, it explodes into two pieces
such that mass of one piece is twice of the other. At the instant t = 3s, the lighter

and the heavier pieces are observed to be moving with velocities

4iˆ  16jˆ m / s  
and
 
ˆi  ˆj m / s
respectively. The velocity of projection of the original bodyis
(g = 10 m/s2)
ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ
(1) 2i  9 j m / s (2) 2i  21j m/s
ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ
(3) 2i  24 j m/s (4) 2i  14 j m/s
11. On a train moving with acceleration 10 m/s2 a ball starts rolling on floor of train
along the width of the train with angular acceleration 2 rad/s2, radius of ball is
1m. find the acceleration of the top most point of ball at the time t = 3s as seen
from ground.
2 2
1) 10 m / s 2) 1400 m / s 3) 1396 m / s 4)

1412 m / s 2

12. Two bodies of masses m1 and m2, respectively, are thrown vertically upwards
with equal initial linear momenta. Then the ratio of maximum heights attained
by the first to that by the second body is
2 2 2 2
(1)m2 : m1 (2) m2 : m1 (3) m1 : m2 (4)m1 : m2
13. A frictionless wire AB is fixed on a sphere of radius R. A
A very small spherical ball slips on this wire. The time 
taken by this ball to slip from A to B is O
B
2 gR 2 gR R
(1) g cos  (2) g sin  C
R gR
2
(3) g (4) g cos 

14. A particle is moving along X axis such that its position is varying as
1 3 
X   t 3  t 2  2t  1 m
3 2 
At what times, the particle reverse its direction
1) t  1sec, t  2sec 2) t  1sec, t  4sec
3) t  1sec, t  3sec 4) t  2sec, t  3 sec
15. The speed of a particle moving in a circle of radius r = 2m varies with time t at
v = t2 , the net acceleration at t = 2 s, is
 2 2 2 2
(1) 80 m / s (2) 40 m / s (3) 2 80 m / s (4) 2 40 m / s
16. A body is thrown vertically upwards from the top of a tower. It reaches the ground
in time t1 . If it is thrown vertically downwards from the same point with the same
speed, it reaches the ground in time t 2 . If it is allowed to fall from the same point
then the time it takes to reach the ground is
t t t t
t 1 2 t 1 2
1) 2 2) 2

3) t  t1t2 4) t  t1 / t2
0
17. A projectile is thrown in the upward direction making an angle of 60 with the
1
horizontal direction with a velocity of 150ms . Then the time after which its
0
inclination with the horizontal is 45 in upward direction, is
1) 15( 3  1)s 2) 15( 3  1)s 3) 7.5( 3  1)s 4) 7.5( 3  1)s

18. A body, moving in a straight line, covers half the distance with a speed V, the
remaining part of the distance was covered with a speed V1 for half of the time
and with a speed V2 for the other half of the time. What is the average speed of
the body?
V (V1  V2 ) 2V (V1  V2 ) 2V1V2 V1V2
1) (2V  V1  V2 ) 2) (2V  V1  V2 ) 3) (V  V1  V2 ) 4) (V  V1  V2 )
19. The locus of a projectile relative to another projectile is a
1) straight line 2) circle 3) ellipse 4) parabola
20. A small body is dropped from a rising balloon. A person ‘A’ stands on ground,
while another person ‘B’ is on the balloon. Choose the correct statement:
Immediately. After the body is released.
1) A and B, both feel that the body is coming (going) down
2) A and B, both feel that the body is going up
3) A feels that the body is coming down, while B feels that the body is going up.
4) A feels that the body is going up, while B feels that the body is going down.

21. Hailstones falling vertically with a speed of 10 m / s , hit the wind screen (wind
screen makes an angle 30 0 with the horizontal) of a moving car and rebound
elastically. The velocity of the car, if the driver finds the hailstones rebound
vertically after striking is 10 x m / s find the value of x.

22. A motorboat going downstream overcame a raft at position A. One hour later, the
motor boat turns back and some times later crosses the raft at position C. The
distance AC = 6 Km. The duty of the engine of motorboat remains constant. If the
km
river flow velocity is x, find the value of x, in hr .
23. A particle takes 9s and 4s respectively to reach foot of the building when
projected vertically upwards and downwards respectively with same speed from top
of the building. How much time (in s) particle will take to reach foot of the building
when it is dropped from top of the building.
24. A ball ‘A’ is thrown vertically up with a speed of 24 m/s and at the same time
another ball ‘B’ is thrown horizontally from a tower as shown. Assuming 2D
motion find the speed of the ball B which will ensure that ball’s will be collide
in air.

25. A river of width 500 m has flow velocity 3m/s. A man starts swimming
perpendicular to river flow at a speed of 4m/s relative to water. Simultaneously
a car starts moving on a road, that runs along the opposite side fo the river, with
constant speed. The car starts from a point on the other side that is exactly
opposite to the point from where the man starts swimming. The speed of the
car if both, the car and the man, meet at the same point at the moment man
has crossed the river, is: (in m/s)

26. The front windscreen of a car is inclined at an angle 30º with the horizontal.
Hailstones fall vertically downwards with a speed of 5 3 m/s. The speed of
the car so that hailstones are bounced back by the screen in vertically upward
direction with respect to car is (Assume elastic collision of hailstones with
wind screen)
(1) 20 m/s (2) 10 m/s (3) 15 m/s (4) 5 m/s
27. A particle is projected with a velocity of 10 ms-1 at an angle 370 with
horizontal. A bird moves along the path of projected particle with constant
speed of 4 ms-1. Find X if the acceleration of bird when it is at highest point of
path of particle is X/2 ms-2
28. The instantaneous height and position of a projectile are given by
x  6t, y  8t  5t 2 meter, what is the initial speed of the projectile ? (‘t’ is in sec)
29. A boat which has a speed of 5 km/h in still water crosses a river of width 1 km
along the shortest possible path (zero drift) in 15min. The velocity of the river
water in km per hour is

30. A boat is moving with velocity v = 2m/s w.r.t. river C

at an angle  = 30. Velocity of river is u = 4 m/s. A
man at the bank is moving with velocity v0 as shown u
in figure. Boat is moving perpendicularly to the bank V 
w.r.t. the man then v0 is _____.
D V0
A
KEY:
01. C 02. D 03. A 04. C
05. B 06. A 07. C 08. A
09. C 10. C 11. D 12. B
13. C 14. A 15. A 16. C
17. C 18. B 19. A 20. D
21. 3 22. 3 23. 6 24. 18
25. 3 26. 15 27. 5 28. 10
29. 3 30. 3

SOLUTIONS:

1. Conceptual

2.

3. Both are moving under gravity

4. Let u is velocity of man at that moment.
From figure,
u V
|V|
 t
|a|
V
45°

-u
South-West .

5.
2  /n

 2 
  n 
    2 
 2 
 
 2

n
Here n = 12
2 
  
12 6
 3
Velocity of approach = V – V cos V V
6 2
a
Time of approach 
 3
V 1  
 2 

 2a 
Distance travelled   .
 2 3 
06.
vBg  vBR  vRg = 4iˆ  2jˆ

v wg = 6iˆ

v wB  v w  v B = 6iˆ  4iˆ  2jˆ = 2iˆ  2ˆj

Direction will be north-west

07. Let the height of point P above the ground be h.

1 2
u cos 53º t  h  at
2
u sin 53º  gt
1
u cos 53º
1 2
h  u sin 53º t  gt
2
08. Suppose the range R corresponding to the angle of projection 
Then R = u cos  t --(1)
1 2
h  gt  u sin  t  (2)
2
From (1) and (2)
2
1 
R   gt 2  h   u 2t 2
2

2 
g t   gh  u 2  t 2   R 2  h 2   0
1 24

4
For the maximum range t2 should be unione.
  gh  u 2   g 2  R 2  h2   0
2

u 2  2 gh
 R max  u
g
09. Using the Co-ordinate system
x= vot cos, y=vot Sin – ½ gt2

vx = vocos, vy=voSin – gt
The stone is at the greatest distance from
the origin when its velocity is
perpendicular to its position vector. The
condition thus is
y V
 x
x Vy
Which yields a quadratic equation for the time ‘t’ at which this
happens
3V0Sin 2V0 2
t2  t 2 0
g g
If this is not to happen, the discriminant of this equitation must
2
 3v Sin   2v 0 2 
be negative, i.e.  0   4  2   Sin  8 / 9
 g   g 
10. (3)
Let total mass is 3m, from impulse momentum principle, we get
     
p t 3  p t 2  3mg  m 4iˆ  16jˆ  2m ˆi  ˆj  3m v 2x ˆi  v 2y ˆj  30mjˆ
 v2x  2 m / s and v 2y  4 m / s
Now u x  v 2x  2 m / s and v 2y  u y  g  2  u y  24 m / s
 v  2iˆ  24ˆj
11. D
Z

X (direction of motion of train)

side view

Acceleration of centre of ball  10i  2 j m / s 2

Acceleration of top most point w.r.t. centre of ball at t  3sec
 2 j  36k m / s 2
Acceleration of top most point of ball  10i  4 j  36k  1412 m / s 2
1
13. 2R cos   g cos  t 2
2
1 3 
14. X   t 3  t 2  2t  1
3 2 
 dx 2
V  t  3t  2
dt
by putting V = 0
t 2  3t  2  0
(t  1)(t  2)  0
Hence t  1sec and T
t  2sec
2
a = 4 m/s
5 kg

N T

200N

15.
v   2  4 m / s
2

vn
a  ac2  at 2 where ac   8 m / s2
r

a 8   4 
2 2

So
a  80 m / s 2

1
16. For Ist case h  ut1  gt12
2
1
For IInd case h  ut2  gt22
2
1
For IIIrd case h   gt 2
2
17. At the two points of the trajectory during projectile motion, the
horizontal component of the velocity is same. Then
u cos 600  v cos 450
1 1 150
 150   v  or v  m/s
2 2 2
150 3
Initially: u y  u sin 600  m/s
2
150 1 150
Finally: v y  v sin 450    m/ s
2 2 2
150 150 3
But v y  u y  a y t    10t
2 2
150
10t  ( 3  1)  t  7.5( 3  1) s
2
Total Distance
18. Average speed =    (1)
Total time
 Let t1 be the times taken to traverse the first half and the second
half of the distance respectively
S
 t1 
V
t2 t
S1 =distance covered in time with speed V1  V1 2
2 2
t t
S 2 =distance covered in time 2 with speed V2  V2 2
2 2
t 2S
 Total distance = S1  S2 = (V1  V2 ) 2  t2 
2 V1  V2
As S1  S2  S
 Total distance = 2S
S 2S S (2V  V1  V2 )
Total time = t  t1  t2   
V V1  V2 V (V1  V2 )
19. Relative acceleration is zero, therefore path will be straight line
20. When the body is dropped from the balloon, it also acquires the
upward velocity of balloon. So w.r.t a person on the ground, the
ball appears to be going up. But a person on the balloon is also
going up. So w.r.t him the velocity of the body will be zero and he
will then see the body to be coming down.

23. h  ut1  1 2 g t12

h  ut2  1 2 g t22
 ht2  4t1t2  1 2 g t12t2
ht1  ut1t2  1 2 g t22t1
h  1 2 g t1 t2
1
2 g t 2  1 2 gt1t2
 t  t1t2  9  4  6

24. Relative velocity of balls must be along their line joining

i.e. v sin53  24sin37

25. Velocity of swimmer as seen from ground will be equal to velocity of river and
for the car and swimmer to reach same point in same time car's speed should be
same as river speed.

vC
26. tan 60º 
vH
 vC  vH tan 60º  15m / s
vC

60º

vH
30º
 M  u cos  
2

27. For particle Mg 

R
u cos 
2 2
R 
g
v2 v2
For Bird, a n   2 g
R u cos 2 
42
= 2 10
10 cos 2 370
= 2.5 ms-2
28. x = 6t
dx
 6
dt
y  8t  5t 2
dy dy
  8  10t at t  0, 8
dt dt
 Initial velocity = 62  82  10 m / s

29. Net velocity of boat in river = 52  u 2

Distance 1 1
t    u  3kmh 1
Velocity 4 5 u
2 2


30. Velocity of boat w.r.t. ground is v  (u  v sin )iˆ  v cos ˆj
For the required condition v0  u  v sin 