AMICUS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, BHARUCH

WORKSHEET (2024 - 25)

SUBJECT: PHYSICS
CLASS: IX

Chapter 1 : Units and Measurement

1. What is the difference between Ao and A.U.?

2. Name physical quantities whose units are electron volt and pascal?
3. A new unit of length is chosen such that the speed of light in vacuum is
unity. What is the distance between the Sun and the Earth in terms of the
new unit if light takes 8 min and 20 s to cover this distance?
4. Find the dimensions of latent heat and specific heat?
5. E, m, l and G denote energy, mass, angular momentum and gravitational
constant respectively. Determine the dimensions of .
6. If velocity, time and force were chosen the basic quantities, find the
dimensions of mass?

Chapter 2 : Motion in A Straight Line

1. Draw displacement time graph for uniformly accelerated motion. What is its
shape?
2. Sameer went on his bike from Delhi to Gurgaon at a speed of 60km/hr and came
back at a speed of 40km/hr. what is his average speed for entire journey.
3. What causes variation in velocity of a particle?
4. Displacement of a particle is given by the expression x = 3t2 + 7t – 9, where
x is in meter and t is in seconds. What is acceleration?
5. A particle is thrown upwards. It attains a height (h) after 5 seconds and
again after 9s comes back. What is the speed of the particle at a height h?
6. Draw displacement time graph for a uniformly accelerated motion? What is
its shape?
7. A balloon is ascending at the rate of 4.9m/s. A pocket is dropped from the balloon
when situated at a height of 245m. How long does it take the packet to reach the
ground? What is its final velocity?
8. A car moving on a straight highway with speed of 126km/hr. is brought to
stop within a distance of 200m. What is the retardation of the car (assumed
uniform) and how long does it take for the car to stop?
9. A jet airplane travelling at the speed of ejects its products of
combustion at the speed of relative to the jet plane. What is the
speed of the latter with respect to an observer on ground?
10. Two trains A and B of length 400 m each are moving on two parallel tracks with
a uniform speed of in the same direction, with A ahead of B. The driver of B
decides to overtake A and accelerates by. If after 50 s, the guard of B just brushes
past the driver of A, what was the original distance between them?
11. Define from velocity time graph.
12. A particle is moving along a straight line and its position is given by the
relation
13. A stone is dropped from the top of a cliff and is found to ravel 44.1m diving the
last second before it reaches the ground. What is the height of the cliff? G =
9.8m/s2
 14. Define (i) v = u + at (ii) V2 – u2 = 2as by calculus method
15. A woman starts from her home at 9.00 am, walks with a speed of on a
straight road up to her office 2.5 km away, stays at the office up to 5.00 pm,
and returns home by an auto with a speed of. Choose suitable scales and
plot the x-t graph of her motion.
16. A car moving along a straight highway with a speed of 126km is brought to a
stop within a distance of 200m. What is the retardation of the car (assumed
uniform), and how long does it take for the car to stop?
17. On a two-lane road, car A is travelling with a speed of. Two cars B and C
approach car A in opposite directions with a speed of each. At a certain instant,
when the distance AB is equal to AC, both being 1 km, B decides to overtake A
before C does. What minimum acceleration of car B is required to avoid an
accident?
18. A ball is dropped from a height of 90 m on a floor. At each collision with the
floor, the ball loses one tenth of its speed. Plot the speed-time graph of its motion
between t = 0 to 12 s.
19. On a 60km straight road, a bus travels the first 30 km with a uniform speed of 30
kmh-1. How fast must the bus travel the next 30 km so as to have average speed
of 40 kmh-1 for the entire trip?
20. The displacement x of a particle varies with time as x = 4t2-15t + 25. Find the
position, velocity and acceleration of the particle at t = 0.
21. A body covers 12 m in 2nd second and 20 m in 4th second. How much
distance will it cover in 4 seconds after the 5th second.
22. A ball thrown vertically upwards with a speed of 19.6 ms-1 from the top of a
tower returns to the earth in 6s. Find the height of the tower (g = 9.8 m/s2)
23. Can a body have zero velocity and still be accelerating? If yes gives any situation.
24. The displacement of a body is proportional to t3, where t is time elapsed. What is
the nature of acceleration- time graph of the body?

Chapter 3 : Motion in Plane

1. A projectile is fired at an angle of 30o with the horizontal with velocity

10m/s. At what angle with the vertical should it be fired to get maximum
range?
2. Give an example of a body moving with uniform speed but having a
variable velocity and an acceleration which remains constant in magnitude
but changes in direction
3. Two vectors are perpendicular to each other. What is the value of?
4. What is the angle between two forces of 2N and 3N having resultant as 4N?
5. What is the angle of projection at which horizontal range and maximum
height are equal?
6. Prove that for elevations which exceed or fall short of 45o by equal amounts
the ranges are equal?
7. Two forces 5 and 10 kg wt are acting with an inclination of 120o between
them. What is the angle which the resultant makes with 10kg wt?
8. A stone is thrown vertically upwards and then it returns to the thrower. Is it
a projectile? Explain?
9. Which is greater the angular velocity of the hour hand of a watch or angular
velocity of earth around its own axis?
10. What are the two angles of projection of a projectile projected with velocity
30m/s, so that the horizontal range is 45m. Take, g = 10m/s2.
11. A cyclist is riding with a speed of 27 km/h. As he approaches a circular turn on
the road of radius 80 m, he applies brakes and reduces his speed at the constant
rate of 0.50 m/s every second. What is the magnitude and direction of the net
acceleration of the cyclist on the circular turn?

Chapter 4: Laws of motion

1. Name the factor on which coefficient of friction depends?

2. A thief jumps from the roof of a house with a box of weight W on his head. What
will be the weight of the box as experienced by the thief during jump?
3. Two blocks of masses m1, m2 are connected by light spring on a smooth
horizontal surface. The two masses are pulled apart and then released.
Prove that the ratio of their acceleration is inversely proportional to their
masses.
4. A shell of mass 0.020kg is fired by a gun of mass 100kg. If the muzzle speed of the
shell is 80m/s, what is the recoil speed of the gun?
5. A force is being applied on a body but it causes no acceleration. What
possibilities may be considered to explain the observation?
6. Force of 16N and 12N are acting on a mass of 200kg in mutually
perpendicular directions. Find the magnitude of the acceleration produced?
7. An elevator weighs 3000kg. What is its acceleration when the in the tension
supporting cable is 33000N. Given that g = 9.8m/s2.
8. A bird is sitting on the floor of a wire cage and the cage is in the hand of a
boy. The bird starts flying in the cage. Will the boy experience any change
in the weight of the cage?
9. A rocket with a lift-off mass 20,000 kg is blasted upwards with an initial
acceleration of 5.0 m/s2. Calculate the initial thrust (force) of the blast.
10. A bob of mass 0.1 kg hung from the ceiling of a room by a string 2 m long
is set into oscillation. The speed of the bob at its mean position is .
What is the trajectory of the bob if the string is cut when the bob is (a) at
one of its extreme positions, (b) at its mean position.
11. Two billiard balls each of mass 0.05 kg moving in opposite directions with
speed 6 m/s collide and rebound with the same speed. What is the impulse
imparted to each ball due to the other?
12. A train runs along an unbanked circular track of radius 30 m at a speed of 54
km/h. The mass of the train is 106 kg. What provides the centripetal force
required for this purpose – The engine or the rails? What is the angle of banking
required to prevent wearing out of the rail?
13. A constant retarding force of 50 N is applied to a body of mass 20 kg moving
initially with a speed of. How long does the body take to stop?
14. 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.
15. A body of mass 0.40 kg moving initially with a constant speed of 10 ms-1to
the north is subject to a constant force of 8.0 N directed towards the south
for 30 s. Take the instant the force is applied to be t = 0, the position of the
body at that time to be x = 0, and predict its position at t= -5 s, 25 s, 100 s.
16. A truck starts from rest and accelerates uniformly at . At t = 10 s, a
stone is dropped by a person standing on the top of the truck (6 m high
from the ground). What are the (a) velocity, and (b) acceleration of the stone
at t = 11 s? (Neglect air resistance.)
17. 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?
18. A batsman deflects a ball by an angle of 45° without changing its initial
speed which is equal to 54 km/h. What is the impulse imparted to the ball?
(Mass of the ball is 0.15 kg.)
19. A) Define impulse. State its S.I. unit? B) State and prove impulse momentum
theorem?
20. Two masses 8 kg and 12 kg are connected at the two ends of a light
inextensible string that goes over a frictionless pulley. Find the
acceleration of the masses, and the tension in the string when the masses
are released.

Chapter 5: Work and Energy, Power

1. When an air bubble rises in water, what happens to its potential energy?
2. A spring is kept compressed by pressing its ends together lightly. It is then
placed in a strong acid, and released. What happens to its stored potential
energy?
3. A molecule in a gas container hits a horizontal wall with speed and angle
30° with the normal, and rebounds with the same speed 200m/s. Is
momentum conserved in the collision? Is the collision elastic or inelastic?
4. A body is moving along Z – axis of a co – ordinate system is subjected to a
constant force F is given by

Where are unit vector along the x, y and z – axis of the system
respectively what is the work done by this force in moving the body a
distance of 4m along the Z – axis?

5. State and prove work energy theorem analytically?

6. An object of mass 0.4kg moving with a velocity of 4m/s collides with
another object of mass 0.6kg moving in same direction with a velocity of
2m/s. If the collision is perfectly inelastic, what is the loss of K.E. due to
impact?
7. A trolley of mass 200 kg moves with a uniform speed of 36 km/h on a
frictionless track. A child of mass 20 kg runs on the trolley from one end to
the other (10 m away) with a speed of 4 m/s relative to the trolley in a
direction opposite to the its motion, and jumps out of the trolley. What is
the final speed of the trolley? How much has the trolley moved from the
time the child begins to run?
8. An electron and a proton are detected in a cosmic ray experiment, the first
with kinetic energy 10 keV, and the second with 100 keV. Which is faster,
the electron or the proton? Obtain the ratio of their speeds. (electron mass
= 9.11 x 10-11 kg, proton mass = 1.68 x 10-27 kg, 1 eV = 1.67 x 10-19 J).
9. A rain drop of radius 2 mm falls from a height of 500 m above the ground. It
falls with decreasing acceleration (due to viscous resistance of the air) until
at half its original height, it attains its maximum (terminal) speed, and
moves with uniform speed thereafter. What is the work done by the
gravitational force on the drop in the first and second half of its journey?
What is the work done by the resistive force in the entire journey if its
speed on reaching the ground is ?
10. A bullet of mass 0.012 kg and horizontal speed strikes a block of wood of mass 0.4
kg and instantly comes to rest with respect to the block. The block is suspended
from the ceiling by means of thin wires. Calculate the height to which the block
rises. Also, estimate the amount of heat produced in the block.