PHYSICS

Daily Practice Problems

A Pre-Foundation Program PEARL (CLASS IX)
TOPIC : MOTION DPP-1
Q.1 In an examination, the student were asked to draw distance-time graph of a school boy going from home
straight to school and getting back home immediately (without any loss of time). The following graphs were
drawn by four students. State which of these graphs do not depict the real situation and why ?
Y Y Y Y

s
Distance

Distance

Time

Time
s

x x x x
O Time O Time O Distance O Distance
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Q.2 The speed of a body is 1 ms–1. The angle between the distance-time graph of the body and the time axis is
(A) 0° (B) 30° (C) 45° (D) 60° C
D
Q.3 Four cars A, B ,C and D are moving on a levelled road. Their distance versus A

Distance
time graph are shown in figure. Choose the correct statement

(m)
(A) Car A is faster than car D (B) Car B is the slowest B
(C) Car D is faster than car C (D) Car C is the slowest
Time(s)
Q.4 The numerical ratio of displacement to distance for a moving object is
(A) Always more than 1 (B) Always equal to 1
(C) Always less than 1 (D) Equal or less than 1
Q.5 Ram reached Rahul's house walking 10 km in 20 minute towards South. Displacement will be
(A) 0.5 km in South direction (B) 10 km in South direction
(C) 0.5 km in North direction (D) 10 km in North direction
Q.6 In figure, BC represents a body moving :
(A) Backward with uniform velocity
(B) Forward with uniform velocity
(C) Backward with non-uniform velocity
(D) Forward with non-uniform velocity

Q.7 An athlete complete one round of a circular track of diameter 200 m in 40 s. What will be the displace-
ment at the end of 2 minutes 40 s.?
(A) 2200 m (B) 220 m (C) 22 m (D) Zero
Q.8 What will be the distance travelled in the above equation ?
(A) 2512 m (B) 2500 m (C) 2200 m (D) Zero
th
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Q.9 A car travels   of a circle with radius r. The ratio of the distance to its displacement is :
4
 
(A) 1 : (B) :1 (C) 2 2 :  (D) 2 2 : 1
2 2 2 2
Q.10 A train travels a distance with a speed of 30 km h–1 and return with a speed of 50 km h–1. Calculate the
average speed of the train.
(A) 40 kmh–1 (B) 37.5 kmh–1 (C) 10 15 kmh–1 (D) 45 kmh–1

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Daily Practice Problems
A Pre-Foundation Program PEARL (CLASS IX)
TOPIC : MOTION DPP-2
Q.1 An object is moving with a velocity of 2 ms–1. Its velocity changes at a uniform rate to 5 ms–1.
The average velocity of the object is
(A) 3 ms–1 (B) 3.5 ms–1 (C) 4 ms–1 (D) 5.5 ms–1
Q.2 A car starts from Hither, goes 50 km in a straight line to Yan, immediately turns around, and returns to
Hither. The time for this round trip is 2 hours. The magnitude of the average velocity of the car for this
round trip is :
(A) 0 km/h (B) 5 km/h (C) 100 km/h (D) 4 km/h
Q.3 A bullet of mass 10 g travelling horizontally with a velocity of 160 ms–1 strikes a stationary wooden
block and comes to rest in 0.02 s. The distance of penetration of the bullet into the block will be
(A) 1.20 m (B) 1.60 m (C) 2.00 m (D) 2.40 m
Q.4 A car travels from one town to the other with average speed 20 km/hr. If the first half is travelled at
average speed 30 km/hr., then the average speed of the car in the other half will be
(A) 30 km/hr. (B) 40 km/hr. (C) 50 km/hr. (D) 15 km/hr.
Q.5 A train starting from a railway station and moving with uniform acceleration, attains a speed of 40 kmh–1 in
10 minutes, its acceleration is :
(A) 18.5 ms–2 (B) 1.85 cm s–2 (C) 18.5 cms–2 (D) 1.85 m s–2
Q.6 The brakes applied to a car produce a negative acceleration of 6ms–2. If the car stops after 2 seconds,
the initial velocity of the car is :
(A) 6 ms–1 (B) 12 ms–1 (C) 24 ms–1 (D) zero
Q.7 A body freely falling from rest has a velocity V after it falls through a height h. The distance it has to fall
further for its velocity to become double is :
(A) 3 h (B) 6 h (C) 8 h (D) 10 h
Q.8 The velocity of bullet is reduced from 200m/s to 100 m/s while travelling through a wooden block of
thickness 10 cm. The retardation, assuming it to be uniform will be :
(A) 10 × 104 m/s2 (B) 1.2 × 104 m/s2 (C) 13.5 × 104 m/s2 (D) 15 × 104 m/s2
Q.9 A boy sitting on the top most berth in the compartment of a train which is just going to stop on the railway
station, drops an apple aiming at the open hand of his brother situated vertically below his hands at a
distance of about 2m. The apple will fall
(A) In the hand of his brother
(B) Slightly away from the hand of his brother in the direction of the motion of the train
(C) Slightly away from the hand of his brother in the direction opposite to the direction of the motion of
the train
(D) None of these
Q.10 The velocity-time graph of a body falling from rest under gravity and rebounding from a solid surface is
represented by
   

(A) t (B) t (C) t (D) t

O O O O

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Daily Practice Problems
A Pre-Foundation Program PEARL (CLASS IX)
TOPIC : MOTION DPP-3
Q.1 In a golf tournament, if we desigante the hole as the origin, and the putter (like a bat) at - 5.0 m at time
0s, the average velocity of ball when it reaches the hole is

Hole

–5.0m –4.0m –3.0m –2.0m –1.0m –0.0m

0.0s 1.0s 2.0s 3.0s 4.0s 5.0s
(A) + 5 m/s (B) –1 m/s (C) +1 m/s (D) – 5 m/s
Q.2 A ball is released from the top of a tower of height h meters. It takes T seconds to reach the ground.
T
What is the position of the ball at second
3
8h 7h
(A) metres from the ground (B) metres from the ground
9 9
h 17 h
(C) metres from the ground (D) metres from the ground
9 18
Q.3 The direction of acceleration of an object moving in a circular path is
(A) directed away from the centre of the circle (B) directed towards the centre of the circle
(C) directed upward in the plane of the circle (D) none of these
Q.4 When the distance travelled by an object is directly proportional to the time, it is said to travel with :
(A) zero velocity (B) constant speed
(C) constant acceleration (D) uniform velocity
Q.5 Which of the following is not vector quantity ?
(A) Retardation (B)Acceleration due to gravity
(C) Average speed (D) Displacement
Q.6 If the displacement of an object is proportional to square of time then the object moves with
(A) Non-uniform acceleration (B) Uniform acceleration
(C) Increasing acceleration (D) Decreasing acceleration
Q.7 A body is thrown vertically upwards with velocity (u) the greatest height h to which it will rise is
(A) u/g (B) u2/2g (C) u2/g (D) u/2g
Q.8 Suppose a boy is enjoying a ride on a merry-go-round which is moving with a constant speed of
10 ms–1. It implies that the boy is
(A) At rest (B) moving with no acceleration
(C) In acceleration motion (D) moving with uniform velocity
Q.9 Which of the following figure represents uniform motion of a moving object correctly ?
Distance

Distance

Distance

Distance
(m)

(m)

(m)

(m)

(A) (B) (C) (D)

Time(s) Time(s) Time(s) Time(s)

Q.10 A stone is just released from the window of a train moving along a horizontal straight track. The stone will
hit the ground following a
(A) straight line path (B) circular path (C) parabolic path (D) hyperbolic path

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Daily Practice Problems
A Pre-Foundation Program PEARL (CLASS IX)
TOPIC : MOTION DPP-4
Q.1 The x-component of the resultant of several vectors
(A) Is equal to the sum of the x-components of the vectors
(B) May be equal to the sum of the magnitude of the vectors
(C) May be smaller than the sum of the magnitude of the vectors
(D) May be greater than the sum of the magnitude of the vectors
Q.2 A point moves with uniform acceleration and v 1 , v2 and v3 denote the average velocities in t1 , t2 and t3
sec. Which of the following relation is correct ?
(A) (v1 – v2) : (v2 – v3) = (t1 – t2) : (t2 + t3) (B) (v1 – v2) : (v2 – v3) = (t1 + t2) : (t2 + t3)
(C) (v1 – v2) : (v2 – v3) = (t1 – t2) : (t1 – t3) (D) (v1 – v2) : (v2 – v3) = (t1 – t2) : (t2 – t3)
Passage III (Q.3 to 5)
Aball is projected upwards from ground. It is observed from a 73.5m high window, twice at the interval
of 2s. Answer the following for the motion of the ball. (Take g = 9.8 ms–2 )
Q.3 What is the velocity of projection for the ball ?
(A) 19.6 ms–1 (B) 39.2 ms–1 (C) 58.8 ms–1 (D) 78.4 ms–1
Q.4 The maximum height attained by the ball above the ground is
(A) 78.4 m (B) 176.4 m (C) 83.3 m (D) 88.2 m
Q.5 Total time of flight of the ball is
(A) 4 s (B) 6 s (C) 8 s (D) 12 s
Q.6 A student goes from his house to his friend's house with speed v1. Finding the door of his firend's house
closed, he returns back to his own house with the speed v2. Then the average speed of the student is :
v1  v 2 2 v1v 2
(A) (B) v1v 2 (C) v  v (D) v1 v2
2 1 2

Q.7 A cyclist goes around a circular track once every 2 minutes. If the radius of the circular track is 105
22
meters, what will be his speed ? (take  = )
7
(A) 2.3 m/s (B) 3.5 m/s (C) 4.5 m/s (D) 5.5 m/s
Q.8 This is the s-t graph of a car moving along a straight road. Which is the correct v-t graph for it ?

0 5 10 15 20
t

v
(A) (B) 0 5 10 15 20
t
0 5 10 15 20
t

v
v
(C) (D) 0 5 10 15 20
t
0 5 10 15 20
t

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Q.9 A particle starts from rest. Its acceleration at time t = 0 is 5 ms–2 which varies with time as shown in the
figure. The maximum speed of the particle will be :
a 2
5 ms

t
O 6s
(A) 7.5 m/s (B) 15 m/s (C) 30 m/s (D) 45 m/s

Q.10 A body starts from rest and moves with a uniform acceleration. Find the ratio of the distnace covered in
the nth sec to the distance covered in n sec.
2 2 1 2 1 2
(A) (B)  (C) – (D)
n n n2 n n2 n2

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Daily Practice Problems
A Pre-Foundation Program PEARL (CLASS IX)
TOPIC : MOTION DPP-5
Q.1 A body starts falling from height ‘h’ and travels distance h/2 during the last second of motion. The time of
travel (in sec.) is :
(A) 2 1 (B) 2  2 (C) 2 3 (D) 3  2

Q.2 Motion of a motorcyclist is shown in the figure. The distance time graph for this motion is

0.0m 13.5m 24.0m 31.5m

0.0s 1.0s 2.0s 3.0s

s s s s
(A) (B) (C) (D)
t t t t

Q.3 When the speed of a car is v, the minimum distance over which it can be stopped is s. If the speed
becomes nv, what will be the minimum distance over which it can be stopped with same retardation
(A) s/n (B) ns (C) s/n2 (D) n2s
Q.4 A ball is dropped vertically from a height h above the ground. It hits the ground and bounces up vertically
to a height h/2. Neglecting subsequent motion and air resistance, its velocity v varies with the height h as:

v v v v
(A) h (B) h (C) h (D) h

Q.5 Two bodies of masses m1 and m2 (m1 = 2m2 ) are dropped from a height. The ratio of time taken by
them to reach the ground is :
(A) 2 : 1 (B) 1 : 2 (C) 1 : 1 (D) None of these

Q.6 Which of the following graph probably show the velocity plotted against time graph for a body whose
acceleration time graph is shown in the figure ?
a

t
a a a a

(A) (B) (C) (D)

t t t t

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Q.7 The velocity time graph for a particle moving along x-axis is shown in the figure the corresponding
displacement time graph is correctly shown by
V

S S S S

(A) (B) (C) (D)

t t t t

SUBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
Q.8 Three speed time graphs are shown below

Speed Speed Speed

Time Time Time

Fig 1 Fig 2 Fig 3
Which graph represents the case of
(i) A ball thrown vertically upwards & returning to the hand of the thrown ?
(ii) A body decelerating to a constant speed and accelerating

Q.9 A rocket is fired upward from the earth's surface such that it creates an acceleration of 19.6 ms–2. If after
5 s, its engine is switched off, what would be the maximum height of the rocket from Earth's surface ?
(A) 735 m (B) 245 m (C) 490 m (D) 750 m

Q.10 On a 120 km track, a train travels the first 30 km with a uniform speed of 30 km/h. How fast must the
train travel the next 90 km so as to average 60 km/h for the entire trip ?
(A) 81 km/h (B) 90 km/h (C) 100 km/h (D) 75 km/h

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