PHYSICS PRACTICE PAPER

Exam Syllabus

PHYSICS System Of Particles Centre Of Mass And Collision

1. A cracker is thrown into air with a velocity of Statement II In elastic collision, velocity of
10 m/s angle of 45° with the vertical. When it approach is equal and opposite of velocity of
is at a height of (1/2) m from the ground, it separation.
explodes into a number of pieces which follow (1) Both Statement I and Statement II are
different parabolic paths. What is the velocity incorrect.
of centre of mass, when it is at a height of 1 m (2) Statement I is correct but Statement II is
from the ground? (Take, g = 10 ms-2) incorrect

(1) 4 5ms-1 (2) 2 5ms-1 (3) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is

correct.
(3) 5 4ms -1 (4) 5ms-1
(4) Both Statement I and Statement II are
2. A bullet of mass m hits a block of mass M
correct.
elastically. The transfer of energy is the maxim
4. Which of the following points is the likely
um, when
position of the centre of mass of the system as
(1) M < < m (2) M > > m
shown in figure?
(3) M = m (4) M = 2m
3. Statement I If two bodies of equal masses
undergo elastic collision in one-dimension,
then after the collision, the bodies will
exchange their velocities.

(1) A (2) B
(3) C (4) D

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5. A circular ring of mass 6 kg and radius a is 8. A block C of mass m is moving with velocity
placed such that its centre lies at the origin. v0 and collides elastically with block A of
Two particles of masses 2 kg each are placed mass m and connected to another block B of
at the intersecting points of the circle with mass 2m through spring of spring constant k
positive X-axis and positive Y-axis, then the What is the value of k, if x0 is compression of
angle made by the position vector of centre of
spring, when velocity of A and B is same?
mass of entire system with X-axis is
(1) 45° (2) 60°
 4
(3) tan -1   (4) 30°
5 mv02 mv02
1) 2)
6. Two objects of masses 10 kg and 20 kg, x 02 2x 02

respectively are connected to the two ends of a 3 mv02 2 mv02

3) 4)
rigid rod of length 10 m with negligible mass. 2 x 02 3 x 02
The distance of the centre of mass of the 9. Statement I In an elastic collision of two
system from the 10 kg mass is bodies, the momentum and energy of system is
20 conserved.
1) m 2) 10 m
3
Statement II If two bodies stick to each other,
10 after colliding, the collision is said to be
3) 5m 4) m
3
perfectly elastic.
7. In a one dimensional collision between two
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are
identical particles A and B, B is stationary and
incorrect.
A has momentum p before impact. During
2) Statement I is correct but Statement II is
impact, B gives an impulse J to A. Then,
incorrect.
coefficient of restitution between the two is
3) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is
2J 2J
1) 1 2) +1 correct.
P P
4) Both Statement I and Statement II are
J J
3) +1 4)  1 correct.
P P

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10. A mass of 10 g moving horizontally with 12. Three identical spheres, each of mass M, are
-1
a velocity of 100 cm s strikes a pendulum placed at the corners of a right angle triangle
bob of same mass. The two masses after with the mutually perpendicular sides equal to
collision stick together. What will be the 2 m (see figure). Taking the point of
maximum height reached by the system now? intersection of the two mutually perpendicular
(Take, g = 10 ms-2 ) sides as the origin, find the position vector of
centre of mass.

1) Zero 2) 1.25 cm
3) 2.5 cm 4) 5cm    
1) 2( i  j ) 2) ( i  j )

11. A particle of mass 1 kg has velocity v1 = (2t) i 2   4  
3) (i  j) 4) (i  j)
and another particle of mass 2 kg has velocity 3 3

v2  ( t 2 ) j Match the following columns. 13. A man of mass M stands at one end of a plank
of length L which lies at rest on a frictionless
Column I Column II
surface. The man walks to the other end of the
A Net force on center of I. 20
unit M
mass at 2 s 9 plank. If the mass of the plank is the
3
B. Velocity of center of II. 68 unit distance
mass at 2 s that the man moves relative to the ground is
C. Displacement of III. 80/3 unit 3L L
1) 2)
centre of mass in 2 s 4 4
D. Momentum of center IV. 80 L L
3) 4 4)
of mass at 2 s 5 3

Choose the correct answer from the options

given below.
(1) A-II, B-III, C-I,D-IV
(2) A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II
(3) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
(4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-III

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14. Statement I: When a body is dropped from a 16. Assertion (A) Two blocks A and B are
height explodes in mid – air, but its center of connected at the two ends of an ideal spring as
mass keeps moving in vertically downward shown in figure.
direction. Initially spring was released. Now, block B is
Statement II: Explosion occur under internal pressed. Linear momentum of the system will
forces only. External Force is zero. not remain constant till the spring reaches its
(1) Both Statement I and statement II are initial natural length.
incorrect
(2) Statement I is correct but statement II is
incorrect.
(3) Statement I is incorrect but statement II is Reason (R) An external force will act from the
correct. wall on block A.
(4) Both Statement I AND Statement II are 1) Both A and R are true but R is not the
correct. correct explanation of A.
15. Assertion (A) The relative velocity of the two 2) A is true but R is false.
particles in head-on elastic collision is 3) A is false but Ris true.
unchanged both in magnitude and direction. 4) Both A and R are true and R is the correct
Reason (R) The relative velocity is unchanged explanation of A.
in magnitude but gets reversed in direction. 17. A ball of mass m is released from the top of an
1) Both A and R are true but R is not the inclined plane of inclination θ as shown in
correct explanation of A. figure. It strikes a rigid surface at a distances
2) A is true but R is false.
3
3) A is false but Ris true. from top elastically. Impulse imparted to
4
4) Both A and R are true and R is the correct ball by the rigid surface is
explanation of A.

3
1) m gh 2) m 3 gh
2

3) 2m 3 gh 4) m 6 gh

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18. In the diagram shown in figure, mass of both Uniform hollow
the balls is same. Match the following hemisphere
columns. B. II. 4R
xcom 
3

Uniform solid

Column I Column II hemisphere

A For v '  v I. e0 C. III.

xcom 
2R

B For v '  v / 2 II. e1
C For v '   3 / 4  v III. e  1/ 2 Uniform semi
circular disc
D For v '   3 / 5  v IV. e  1/ 5
D. IV. R
Choose the correct answer from the options xcom 
2
given below.
(1) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II Uniform semi
(2) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV circular ring
(3) A-I, B-III, C-II, D-II Choose the correct answer from the options
(4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV given below.

19. Match the following where R is radius in each 1) A-I B-III C-II D-IV

case and XCOM is center of mass of object in 2) A-IV B-I C-II D-III
different case taken from base or point O. 3) A-IV B-III C- II D- I
Column I Column II
4) A-II B-I C-III D-IV
A. I. 3R
xcom  20. A ball is projected vertically down with an
8
initial velocity from a height of 20 m onto a
horizontal floor. During the impact, it loses
50% of its energy and rebounds to the same
height. The initial velocity of its projection is
(Take, g = 10 ms-2)
1) 20 ms-1 2) 15 ms-1
3) 10 ms-1 4) 5 ms-1

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21. A particle A of mass m initially at rest slides 23. Which of the following statement are correct?
down a height of 1.25 m on a frictionless ramp, (A) Centre of mass of a body always coincides
collides with and sticks to an identical particle with the centre of gravity of the body
B of mass m at rest as shown in the figure. (B) Centre of mass of a body is the point at
which the total gravitational torque on the
body is zero
(C) A couple on a body produce both
translational and rotational motion in a body
Then, particles A and B together collide (D) Mechanical advantage is greater than one
elastically with particle C of mass 2m at rest. means that small effort can be used to lift a
The speed of particle C after the collision with large load.
combined body (A + B) would be 1) (A) and (B) 2) (B) and (C)
-2
(Take, g = 10 ms ) 3) (C) and (D) 4) (B) and (D)
(1) 2 ms-1 (2) 1.25 ms-1 24. A uniform circular disc of radius a is taken. A
(3) 2.5 ms-1 (4) 5 ms-1 circular portion of radius b has been removed
22. Assertion (A) : Two blocks of masses mA and from it as shown in the figure. If the centre of
mB (mB>mA) are thrown towards each other hole is at a distance c from the centre of the
with same speed over a rough ground. The disc, the distance x2 of the centre of mass of
coefficient of friction of both the blocks with the remaining part from the initial centre of
ground is same. Initial velocity of CM is mass O is given by
towards left.

Reason (R) : Initial acceleration of center of

 b2 cb2
1) 2)
mass is towards right.
a 2
 c2   a 2  b2 
1) Both A and R are true and R is not the
correct explanation of A.  c2 ca 2
3) 4) 2
2) A is true but R is false.
a 2
 b2   c  b2 
3) A is false but R is true.
4) Both A and R are true and R is the correct
explanation of A.

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25. Two particles A and B, move with constant 27. n elastic balls are placed at rest on a smooth
velocities v1 and v 2 At the initial moment, horizontal plane which is circular at the ends
their position vectors are r1 and r2 , respectively. with radius r as shown
The condition for particles A and B for their in the figure. The masses of the balls are
collision is m m m
m, , 2 ,..., n - 1'
1) r1 × v1 = r2 × v2 2 2 2
respectively. What is the minimum velocity
r -r v -v
2) 1 2 = 1 2 which should be imparted to the first ball of
r1  r2 v1  v2
mass m such that this nth ball will complete
r -r v -v
3) 1 2 = 2 1 the vertical circle?
r1  r2 v2  v1

4) r1 . v1  r2 . v2

26. Two blocks of masses m and 2m are kept on a

smooth horizontal surface. They are connected n-1 n-1
 3  4
1)   5gr 2)   5gr
by an ideal spring of force constant k. Initially,  4  3
the spring is unstretched. A constant force is n-1 n-1
 3  2
applied to the heavier block in the direction as 3)   5gr 4)   5gr
 2  3
shown in figure. Suppose at time t,
28. A small ball rolls off the top landing of the
displacement of smaller block is x, then
staircase. It strikes the mid-point of the first
displacement of the heavier block at this
step and then the mid-point of the second step.
moment would be
The steps are smooth and identical in height
and width. The coefficient of restitution
between the ball and the first step is
3
x Ft 2 1) 1 2)
1) 2) 4
2 6m
1 1
x Ft 2 x 3) 4)
3) 4) - 2 4
3 4m 2

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29. Body of mass M is much heavier than the other
body of mass m. The heavier body with speed
v collides with the lighter body which was at
rest initially elastically. The speed of lighter
body after collision is
1) 2v 2) 3v
v
3) v 4)
2
30. A moving block having mass m, collides with
another stationary block having mass 4m. The
lighter block comes to rest after collision.
When the initial velocity of the lighter block is
v, then the value of coefficient of restitution (e)
will be
1) 0.5 2) 0.25
3) 0.4 4) 0.8

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1. 1) 4. 3)
During explosion of a cracker, path of centre The position of centre of the system shown in
of mass does not change. At height 1m, the given figure is likely to be at C.

v  u2  2 gh (from conservation of This is because lower part of the sphere

containing sand is heavier than upper part of
mechanical energy)
the sphere containing air.
1
 4 5ms
5. P is the position of centre of mass of particles
2. 3) During elastic collision between two equal at 2 and 3
masses, the velocity of the two bodies gets Q is position of centre of mass of all three
interchanged so if one body is at rest, energy particles.
transfer will be maximum for M = m

3. 4)

Both Statement I and II are correct If

m1=m2=m, then from equations

( m1  m2 )v1  2m2v2
v '1 
m1  m2 yCM m1y1  m2 y 2  m3 y3
tanθ  
x CM m1x1  m2 x 2  m3 x 3
( m  m )v1  2mv2
  v2
mm
6×0+2×0+2×a
= =1 or θ = 450
Also, from second equation, 6×0+2×a+2×0

( m2  m1 )v2  2m1v1 6. (1)

v '2 
m1  m2 The given situation is shown below.

( m  m )v2  2mv
  v1
2m

Therefore, from this equation, it is proved that

if bodies of equal mass collides, then their
velocities are exchanged.

Let xCM be the position of centre of mass

from 10 kg mass.

m1 x1  m2 x2
 xCM 
m1  m2

10  0  20  10 200 20
   m
10  20 30 3

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7. 4) 8. 2)
Using the law of conservation of linear Statement I is correct but
momentum, we have
Statement II is incorrect. In an elastic
mv0  mv  2mv  v = v0 / 3 collision, both the momentum and kinetic
energy are remain conserved. This rule is not
for individual bodies, but for the system of
bodies before and after the collision. While
Using law of conservation of energy, we
collision in which there occurs some loss of
have
kinetic energy is called inelastic collision.
1 2 1 2 1
mv0  kx0   3m  v 2 Collision in daily life are generally inelastic.
2 2 2
The collision is said to be perfectly inelastic, if
where, x0 is compression in the spring. two bodies are stick to each other.

1
 mv02  kx02   3m  v 2 9. 1)
2
Let uA and uB be the velocities of A and B
2 2
mv 2mv respectively before impact and vA and vB be
 kx02  mv02   kx02 
0 0
3 3 the velocities of A and B after impact.
2mv02
 k
3 x02

Before impact, uB = 0
After impact, p-J=mv A and J = mvB

Coefficient of restitution,

vB  v A J  ( P  J )
e= 
uA  uB P

2J  p 2 j
 1
p p
10. 2)

From law of conservation of momentum

u
mu=(m + m)  v 
2

Now, maximum height reached by the system,

v2 1 1 5
h= = = ×(100 cm) = =1.25 cm
2g 8g 80 4

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11. 1) 12. 3) The given situation is shown in the figure.
FCM =F1 +F2

 
 m1a1  m2a2  (2 i  8 j)

 FCM = 4+64

FCM = 68 unit

m1v1 +m2 v2
vcm =
m1 +m2
M  2iˆ  M  2 ˆj 2 ˆ 2 ˆ
      i j

1 (4 i )  (2)(4 i )  4 i  8 j 3M 3 3
3 3
13. 2) Let plank moves x distance in opposite
1 80 direction, then displacement of man relative to
 vcm = 16+64= unit
3 3 ground will be (L - x ). Applying law of

conservation of momentum,
s1   02 v1dt  (4 i )
xR x M
 8  mR =m L L or M  L-x  = x
s2   02 v2dt   j  t t 3
3 
3L
m1s1 +m2s 2 Solving this equation, we get x=
Now, scm = 4
m1 +m2
 Displacement of man relative to ground
   8  3L L
(1)  4 i   2  j  =L- =
   3    4 i  16 j   4 4
3 9 
3 
14. 4)
16 256 20
scm = + = unit Both Statement I and Statement II are
9 81 9
correct.
Momentum of center of mass
Explosion is Due to internal forces. As no
=  m1 +m 2  vcm external force is involved the vertical
downward motin of center of mass is not
80
=3× = 80 unit affected.
3

Hence, A→ (II), B→ (III), C→ (I), D→ (IV).

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15. 3) 18. 2)
When e = 1, collision is elastic and equal
masses exchange their velocities.
RVOS, i. e. relative velocity of separation
e
RVOA, i. e. relative velocity of approach
In elastic collision, e = 1 velocity of each will remain half.

 RVOS  RVOA When v2  v ' 

3
v , then v1 
v
4 4
16. 4)
(from conservation of momentum),
Linear momentum will not remain constant till
3v v
spring will remain compressed, therefore a 
 e 4 41
force will act on block A from the wall. v 2

3 v
17. 4) When v2  v '  v , then v1  v
5 5
Loss in PE=Gain in KE
(from conservation of momentum),
1
mgh1  mv 2 3 2
2 v v
 e 5 5 1
3 1 3 gh v 5
mg  h  mv 2  v 
4 2 2
Hence, A→ (II), B→ (1), C→ (II), D→ (IV).
Now, impulse imparted,
19. 2)
3 gh
J  2mv  2m  m 6 gh R is raodius in each case
2
1) uniform hollow hemisphere has COM from
R
base xcom 
2

2) uniform solid hemisphere has COM from

3R
base xcom 
8

3) uniform semi circular disc has COM from

4R
base xcom 
3

4) uniform semi circular ring has COM from

2R
base xcom 


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 20. 1) 23. 4)
Let the ball be projected vertically downward As we know that mechanical advantage, MA=
with velocity v from height h. Load
if MA>1, Load >Effort
Effort

Centre of mass may or may not coincide with

centre of gravity.

Net torque of gravitational pull is zero about

centre of mass. τ0 =  τi =  ri ×mig =0

1 A couple produces rotational motion only,

Total energy at point A  mv 2  mgh
2 hence statements B and D are correct.
During collision, loss of energy is 50% and the
24. (2)
ball rises up to same height. This means it
Centre of mass of remaining portion was at point
possesses only potential energy at same level.
02. Hence, x2 (area of remaining portion)
1 
50%  mv 2  mgh   mgh
2  = c (area of removed disc)

 x2   a 2   b 2   c b 2
11 
mv 2  mgh   mgh  v  2 gh  2  10  20 cb2
2  2  x2 
a 2  b2
 v  20ms 1
25. 3)
21. 3)
Let the particles A and B collide at time t. for
Velocity of A just before collision
their collision, the position vectors of both
1
 2 gh  2  10  1.25  5ms
particles should be same at time t.
Velocity of (A + B) just after collision
r = r0 + vt
5
  2.5ms 1
2 r = r1 + v1 t
In elastic collision between two bodies of
r = r2 + v2 t
equal masses, velocities are interchanged.
r1 + v1t = r2 + v2 t
Hence, velocity of C will become 2.5 ms-1

22. (1)  r1 - r2 = v2 t - v1t

m A   v   mB   v    v2  v1  t
vCM   ve
m A  mB

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 28. 2)
Also, r1  r2  v2  v1 t
The given situation is shown below
r r
or t 1 2
v2  v1

Substituting the value of t in Eq. (i), we get

r1  r2
r1  r2   v2  v1 
v2  v1

r1  r2  v2  v1 
or 
r1  r2 v2  v1

26. 4)
mx  2mx2 m
xCM 
m  2m
v2
From C to D, v2 = 2 gx  gt  t 
1 x  2 x2 m g
 acm t 2 
2 3 From A to B, time will become two times.

3 F  2 1
 t  x  2 x2 m Applying s = ut  at 2 in vertical direction,
2  3m  2
we have
Ft 2 x
 x2m  
4m 2 1
 x   ev2   2t    g  (2t )2
2
27. 1)
2ev22 2v22
In head-on elastic collision, x     x  2e(2 x )  2(2 x )
g g
 m / 2 m   2 m  4
v1     0    v  v 3
 m / 2 m  m / 2 m 3  e
4

Finally,
n 1
 4
vn    .v
 3
vn  5 gr to complete vertical circle

n 1
 3
 v  5 gr
 4

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29. 1)

From law of conservation of momentum,

Mv  m  0  Mv1  mv2

 M  v  v1   mv2

Again, from the conservation of kinetic energy

(as collision is of elastic nature ),

1 1 1 1
Mv 2  m  0  Mv12  mv22
2 2 2 2

 M (v 2  v12 )  mv22

On solving Eqs. (i) and (ii), we get

30. 2) According to law of conservation of linear
momentum,

v
mv + 4m  0  4mv ' 0  v ' 
4

Coefficient of restitution,

Relative velocityof separation

e=
Relative velocityof approach

v
=
4
v

1
Or e   0.25
4

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