WS-13 - KN - 1-D Motion - Sub
WS-13 - KN - 1-D Motion - Sub
WS-13 - KN - 1-D Motion - Sub
Kinematics:1-D Motion
Motion along Straight Line
1. Two trains A and B of length 400 m each are moving on two parallel tracks with a
uniform speed of 72 kmh1 in the same direction, with A ahead of B . The driver of B
decides to overtake A and accelerates by 1 ms2. If after 50 s, the guard of B just
brushes past the driver of A , what was the original distance between them?
2. On a two-lane road, car A is travelling with a speed of 36 kmh1. Two cars B and C
approach car A in opposite directions with a speed of 54 kmh1 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?
3. Two towns A and B are connected by a regular bus service with a bus leaving in either
direction every T min. A man cycling with a speed of 20 kmh1 in the direction A to
B notices that a bus goes past him every 18 min in the direction of his motion, and every
6 min in the opposite direction.
(a) What is the period T of the bus service and with what speed (assumed constant) do
the buses ply on the road?
(b) What is the uniform separation between the two successive buses?
4. A police van moving on a highway with a speed of 30 kmh 1 fires a bullet at a thief's car
speeding away in the same direction with a speed of 192 kmh 1. If the muzzle speed of
the bullet is 150 ms1, with what speed does the bullet hit the thief's car?
5. A drunkard walking in a narrow lane takes 5 steps forward and 3 steps backward,
followed again by 5 steps forward and 3 steps backward, and so on. Each step is 1 m
long and requires 1 s. Plot the x t graph of his motion. Determine graphically and
otherwise how long the drunkard takes to fall in a pit 13 m away from the start.
6. From an elevated point A , a stone is projected vertically upward. When the stone
reaches a distance h below A , its velocity is double of what it was at a height h above
A . What is the greatest height obtained by the stone above A ?
7. A particle moves along x -axis according to the law x A sin t , where x is the
displacement and t is the time. Find the distance traversed by the particle in 3 s.
8. A ball is dropped into a lake from a dividing board 5.0 m above the water. It hits the
water with velocity v and then sinks to the bottom with the constant velocity v . It
reaches the bottom of the lake 5.0 s after it is dropped. Find
(a) the average velocity of the ball and
(b) the depth of the lake.
10. An object of mass m is thrown vertically up. In the presence of heavy air resistance the
time of ascent t1 is no longer equal to the time of descent t2 . Similarly the initial
speed u with which the body is thrown is not equal to the final speed v with which
the object returns. Assuming that the air resistance F is constant show that
t2 gF/m v gF/m
; and
t1 gF/m u g F/m
Answers
1. 1250
2. a 1 ms2
3. (a) 9 min ; 40 km/h (b) 6 km
4. 105 ms1
5. 37 s
5h
6.
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7. 6 A
8. (a) 9 m/s; (b) 40 m
2h
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