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REVISION SHEET – 2 KINEMATICS

1. A ball is thrown from a point with a speed 0 at an elevation of angle . From the same point and at the same
instant, a person starts running with a constant speed 0/2 to catch the ball. Will the person be able to catch the
ball? If yes, what should be the angle of projection ?
0 0 0
(a) No (b) Yes, 30 (c) Yes, 60 (d) Yes, 45

2. A particle located at x = 0 at time t = 0 starts moving along the positive x-direction with a velocity  that varies
as    x . The displacement of the particle varies with time as
1/2 3 2
(a) t (b) t (c) t (d) t
3. A body is at rest at x = 0. At t = 0, it starts moving in the positive x-direction with a constant acceleration. At the
same instant another body passes through x = 0 moving in the positive x-direction with a constant speed. The
position of the first body is given by x 1(t) after time t and that of the second body by x 2(t) after the same time
interval. Which of the following graphs correctly describes (x 1 – x2) as a function of time t?

(a) (b) (c) (d)

4. A particle is moving with velocity v  K(yiˆ  cj)
ˆ , where K is a constant. The general equation for its path is
2 2
(a) y = x + constant (b) y = x + constant
2 2
(c) xy = constant (d) y = x + constant

5. On a particular day rain drops are falling vertically at a speed of 5m/s. A man
holding a plastic board is running to escape from rain as shown. The lower
end of board is at a height half that of man and the board makes 45° with
horizontal. The maximum speed of man so that his feet does not get wet, is

(a) 5 m/s (b) 5 2 m/s

(c) 5 / 2 m/s (d) Zero

6. The figure shows the position- time (x –t) graph of one-dimensional motion of a body of mass 0.4 kg. the
magnitude of each impulse is

(a) 0.4 Ns (b) 0.8 Ns (c) 1.6 Ns (d) 0.2 Ns

7. A lift 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.
(a) g, g (b) g – a, g –a (c) g – a, g (d) a, g

8. Match the following

Column-I Column-II
(A) Time for a boat to cross a river of width by the shortest distance ( v -velocity (P)
of boat with respect to water; u -velocity of water |v u |
(B) Time for two particles moving with velocities v and u in opposite directions to (Q)
meet each other. (initial separation of particles is ) v 2  u2
(C) Time for a boat to cross a river of width in the shortest time ( v -velocity of (R)
boat with respect to water; u -velocity of water) |v | |u |
(D) Time for a boat to travel a distance downstream (v -velocity of boat with (S)
respect to water; u -velocity of water) |v |

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u2  v 2
9. A particle is moving with constant acceleration 'a'. Following graph shows v 2 versus x(displacement) plot. The
acceleration of the particle is _____ m / s 2 . Ans. 1

10. A bullet of mass 20g has an initial speed of 1 ms 1 , just before it starts penetrating a mud wall of thickness 20
cm. If the wall offers a mean resistance of 2.5  102 N, the speed of the bullet after emerging from the other
side of the wall is close to :
(a) 0.1 ms 1 (b) 0.7 ms 1 (c) 0.3 ms 1 (d) 0.4 ms 1

11. A car is moving with speed of 150 km/h and after applying the break it will move 27 m before it stops. If the
same car is moving with a speed of one third the reported speed then it will stop after travelling _____ m
distance. Ans. 3

12. The velocity-time graphs of a car and a scooter are shown in the figure, (i) the difference between the distance
travelled by the car and the scooter in 15s and (ii) the time at which the car will catch up with the scooter are,
respectively.

(a) 337.5 and 25s (b) 225.5m and 10s (c) 112.5m and 22.5s (d) 11.2.5m and 15s

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13. An object, moving with a speed of 6.25 m/s, decelerated at a rate given by  2.5 v where v is the
dt
instantaneous speed. the time taken by the object, to come to rest, would be :
(a) 2s (b) 4s (c) 8s (d) 1s

14. Two trains 'A' and 'B' of length 'l ' and ' 4l ' are travelling into a tunned of length 'L' in parallel tracks from
opposite directions with velocities 108 km/h and 72 km/h, respectively. If train 'A' takes 35 s less time than train
'B' to cross the tunned then, length 'L' of tunnel is : (Given L = 50l)
(a) 1200m (b) 2700m (c) 1800m (d) 900m

15. A ball is thrown up vertically with a certain velocity so that, it reaches a maximum height h. Find the ratio of the
h
times in which it is at height while going up and coming down respectively.
3
2 1 3 2 3 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 1 3 2 3 1 3

16. A juggler throws balls vertically upwards with same initial velocity in air. When the first ball reaches its highest
position, he throws the next ball. Assuming the juggler throws n balls per second, the maximum height the balls
can reach is :
(a) g / 2n (b) g/n (c) 2gn (d) g / 2n 2

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17. Water droplets are coming from an open tap at a particular rate. The spacing between a droplet observed at 4
second after its fall to the next droplet is 34.3. At what rate the droplets are coming from the tap?
(Take g = 3 m / s 2 )
(a) 3 drops / 2 seconds (b) 2 drops / seconds
(c) 1 drops / seconds (d) 1 drops / 7 seconds

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18. A fighter jet is flying horizontally at a certain altitude with a speed of 200 ms . When it passes directly overhead
an anti-aircraft gun, bullet is fired from the gun, at an angle  with the horizontal, to hit the jet. If the bullet
speed is 400 m/s, the value of  will be ........ . Ans. 60

19. The projectile motion of a particle of mass 5g is shown in the figure.

The initial velocity of the particle is 5 2 ms 1 and the air resistance is assumed to the negligible. The
magnitude of the change in momentum between the points A and B is x  102 kgms 1 . The value of x, to the
nearest integer, is _______. Ans. 5

20. A plane is inclined at an angle   30o with respect to the horizontal. A particle is projected with a speed
u  2 ms 1 , from the base of the plane, as shown in figure. The distance from the base, at which the particle
hits the plane is close to : (Take g = 10 ms 2 )

(a) 20 cm (b) 18 cm (c) 26 cm (d) 14 cm

21. A swimmer can swim with velocity of 12 km/h in still water. Water flowing in a river has velocity 6 km/h. the
direction with respect to the direction of flow of river water he should swim in order to reach the point on the
other bank just opposite to his starting point is _______ . (Round off to the Nearest Imager)
(Find the angle in degrees). Ans. 120

22. A point moves rectilinearly with a resisting acceleration that depends on the velocity v 0 of the particle as
a  v 1/ 2 where  is a positive constant. At t  0 , the velocity is v. What distance will it traverse before it stops
? What time will it take to

23. A stone is projected from the point on a ground in such a direction so as to hit a bird on the top of a telegraph
post of height h and then attain the maximum height 2h above the ground. If at the instant of projection, the bird
were to fly awayhorizontally with a uniform speed, find the ratio between the horizontal velocities of the bird and
the stone, if the stone still hits the bird while descending.
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24. Two inclined planes OA and OB having inclination (with horizontal) 30 and 60 respectively, intersect each
other at O as shown in fig.

A particle is projected from point P with velocity u  10 3 ms 1 along a direction perpendicular to plane OA. If
the particle strikes plane OB perpendicularly at Q, calculate the
perpendicularly at Q, calculate the
(a) time of light
(b) speed with which particle strikes the plane OB.
(c) vertical height h of P from O.
(d) distance PQ.
(e) maximum height from O, attained by the particle.

25. Two guns, situated on the top of a tower, fire one shot each with the same speed 5 3 ms 1 at some interval of
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time. The first gun fires upward at an angle of 60 with the horizontal and the second gun fires horizontally. The
shots collide in air at point P. Find
(a) The coordinates of point P.
(b) The time interval between the firings.
Take the origin of the coordinate system at the point of the firing and trajectories in the x-y plane.

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26. A body falls freely from some altitude H. At the moment the first body starts falling, another body is thrown from
the ground which collides with the first at an altitude h  H / 2 . The horizontal distance covered by the second
body is l. Find the initial velocity and the angle at which it was thrown.

27. Two swimmers starts a race. One who reaches point C first on the other bank wins the race. A his storkes in a
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direction of 37 to the river flow which velocity 5km/hr relative to water. B makes his strokes in a direction 127
to the river flow with same relative velocity. River is flowing with speed of 2km/hr and is 100m wide. Who will in
the race ? Compute the time taken by A and B to reach the point C if the speeds of A and B on the ground are
8km/hr and 6 km/hr respectively.
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28. During a rainy day, rain is falling vertically with a velocity 2m s . A body at rest starts his motion with a constant
–2
acceleration of 2m s . along a straight road. Find the rate at which the angle of the axis of umbrella with vertical
should be changed so that the rain always falls parallel to the axis of the umbrella

29. An aircraft is flying horizontally with a constant velocity u = 200 m/s, at a height = 1 km above the ground. At the
moment shown, a bomb is released from the aircraft and the cannon-gun below fires a shall with initial speed of
200 m/s, at some angle  .
(a) For what value of ' ' will the projectile shell destroy the bomb in mid-air ?
(b) It the value of  is 53 , find the minimum distance between the bomb and the shell as they fly past each
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other. (Take sin 53 = 4/5.)

Paragraph for Questions 29 to 31

From a tower of height 40 m, two bodies are simultaneously projected horizontally in opposite direction, with
-1 -1 –2
velocities 2 m s and 8 m s , respectively. (g = 10 ms )
1. The time taken for the velocity vectors of two bodies to become perpendicular to each other, is
(a) 0.1 s (b) 0.2 s (c) 0.4 s (d) 0.8 s

2. The horizontal distance between two bodies, when their velocity are perpendicular to each other, is
(a) 1m (b) 0.5 m (c) 2m (d) 4m

3. The time taken for the displacement vectors of two bodies to become perpendicular to each other is
(a) 0.1 s (b) 0.2 s (c) 0.8 s (d) 0.6 s

Paragraph for Questions 32 to 33

A rabbit is hidden in grass at point A near a pond. A dog is drinking water in the pond at point B. The
coordinates of points A and B are (0, 0) and (46 m, 28 m), respectively. At the same instant, rabbit starts to run
with a constnat velocity (7.5iˆ  10 jˆ) ms 1 and dog starts to run with constant speed in a straight line and
catches rabbit in time t.

1. If x and y-components of velocities of deg for catching the rabbit are v1 and v 2 , respectively, which of following
relations is correct?
(A) 7.5 t  46  v1 t (B) 10 t  28  v 2 t (C) Both (a) and (b) (D) Neither (a) nor (b)

2. If it runs with minimum speed, the minimum time in which the dog could catch the rabbit is :
(A) 4s (B) 5.25 s (C) 5 s (D) 4.6 s

Paragraph for Questions 34 to 36

Two particles are thrown simultaneously from points A and B with velocities u1  2 ms 1 and u2  14 ms 1 ,
respectively, as shown in fig.

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3. The relative velocity of B as seen from A is :

(A) 8 2 iˆ  6 6 ˆj (B) 4 2 iˆ  3 6 ˆj (C) 3 5 iˆ  2 3 jˆ (D) 3 2 iˆ  4 3 ˆj

4. Minimum separation between A and B is :

(A) 3m (B) 6m (C) 9m (D) 12 m

5. Time after which the separation between A and B is minimum is :

(A) 2.7 s (B) 1.35 2 s (C) 2 s (D) 3s

Paragraph for Questions 37 to 39

A river of width d is flowing with velocity u. A boat starts from rest and wirth respect to water, moves
perpendicular to the river with an acceleration of a  5t , where t is time. The boat starts from point (1, 0) of the
coordinate system as shown in fig.

6. Find the equation of trajectory of the boat.

3 3 3 3
6 x  5 x 6  x  1 6  x  1
(A) y (B) y (C) y  u  (D) y
5  u  6  u  5  u  5  u 

7. Find the drift of the boat when it is in the middle of the river.
1/3 1/3 1/3 1/3
 3d   3d   5d   5d 
(A) u  (B) u  3 (C) u  (D) u  1
 5   5   6   6 

8. Obtain the total time taken to cross the river.

(A) (3d / 5)1/3 (B) (6d / 5)1/3 (C) (3d / 3)1/3 (D) (5d / 6)1/3

Paragraph for Questions 40 to 42

A projectiele is projected with some initial velocity and some initial angle of projection. Wind is also blowing, due
to which constant horizontal retardation a is imparted to the particle in the plane of motion. It is found that the
particle is at same height at two different time t1 and t 2 and particle is at same horizontal distance at two
different time t3 and t 4 .

9. Angle of projection of particle is :

 t t   a  t1  t2    g  t1  t2  
(A) tan1  1 2  (B) tan1   (C) tan1   (D) None of these
 t3  t 4   g  t3  t 4    a  t3  t 4  

10. Maximum height of the particle is :

g g g
(A)  t1  t2 2 (B)  t1  t2 2 (C)  t1  t2 2 (D) None of these
8 4 2

11. Range of the projectile is :

1 1
(A) a (t1  t2 )2 (B) a (t1  t2 )2 (t3  t 4  t1  t2 )
2 2
1
(C) a (t3  t 4  t1  t2 )2 (D) Can't be determined
2

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ANSWER KEY

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10
C C D A A B C A-PQ 1 B
B-R
C-S
D-PR
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20
3 C A C B D C 60 5 A
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
120 2  2 1  (a) (5 3m  5m) A=
165
A=600
B=120
C D
(b) 1 sec B=
150
31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
C C A A C B C A B C
41. 42.
A B

24.

26.

28.

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