Motion & Force Test
Motion & Force Test
Motion & Force Test
1. What would be the displacement of a particle moving in a circular path of radius r after a
displacement of half a circle?
a. 2πr
b. πr
c. 2r
d. Zero
2. a straight path from its initial position to a point 20 m away and then returns back to its
initial position. The displacement of the body is ____ and the distance travelled is
______.
(a) 20 m, 40 m
(b) 0 m, 40 m
(c) 40 m, 40 m
(d) 0 m, 0 m
3. What does the slope of the distance-time graph give?
A) Speed
B) Velocity
C) Acceleration
D) displacement
4. What does the slope of the velocity-time graph give?
a) Speed
b) Velocity
c) Acceleration
d) displacement
5. The inertia of an object causes the object to
a) decrease its speed
b) Increase its speed
c) resist any change in the state of its motion
d) decelerate due to friction
6. The momentum of an object is 3500 kg cm/s. If the velocity of the object is 5 m/s, then
the mass of the object is
a) 14 g
a) 35 kg
b) 10 Kg
c) 7 Kg
7. If the mass and velocity of the body is doubled, then the linear momentum of the body
will
a) become double
a) remain the same
b) become half
c) become four times
Section B (short answer question) (16 marks)
8. A body travels forward along a straight line for 50 m in 10 seconds. Then it travels back
20 m in another 10 seconds. Find the
(i) average velocity
(ii) average speed
9. A bus decreases its speed from 80 km/h to 60 km/h in 5 s. Find the acceleration of the
bus.
10. Abdul, while driving to school, computes the average speed for his trip to be 20 km/h. On
his return trip along the same route, there is less traffic and the average speed is 30
km/h. What is the average speed for Abdul’s complete trip?
11. Draw
i) distance-time graphs for an object moving in uniform and non-
uniform motion?
ii) velocity-time graphs for an object moving in uniform motion and
uniform acceleration?
12. A force of 5 N gives a mass m1, an acceleration of 10 m/s2 and a mass m2, an
acceleration of 20 m/s2. What acceleration would it give if both the masses were tied
together?
13. A 8000 kg engine pulls a train of 5 wagons, each of 2000 kg, along a horizontal track. If
the engine exerts a force of 40000 N and the track offers a friction force of 5000 N, then
calculate:
(a) the net accelerating force and
(b) the acceleration of the train.
14. An athlete completes one round of a circular track of diameter 200 m in 40 s. What wil be the
distance covered and the displacement at the end of 2 minutes 20 s?
15. State newton’s first and second law of motion.