CLASS 9 MOTION

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. What is motion? 11. If an object accelerates from 0 to 20
(a) The change of position of an object m/s in 5 seconds, what is its
with time acceleration?
(b) The colour change of an object (a) 4 m/s² (b) 5 m/s²
(c) The size change of an object (c) 6 m/s² (d) 3 m/s²
(d) The shape change of an object 12. What does the slope of a distance-time
2. Which of the following is the unit of graph represent?
speed? (a) Speed (b) Distance
(a) m/s b) kg/m (c) Time (d) Acceleration
(c) m/s² (d) m³/s 13. What does the slope of a velocity-time
3. What does uniform motion mean? graph represent?
(a) Changing speed (a) Speed (b) Distance
(b) Changing direction (c) Acceleration (d) Time
(c) Constant speed 14. What is the acceleration of an object
(d) Constant acceleration moving at constant velocity?
4. What is the formula for speed? (a) Zero (b) Positive
(a) Speed = Distance × Time (c) Negative (d) Infinity
(b) Speed = Distance / Time 15. If a car is traveling at 30 m/s and
(c) Speed = Time / Distance comes to a stop in 10 seconds, what is
(d) Speed = Distance + Time its acceleration?
5. What is the unit of distance? (a) -3 m/s² (b) -5 m/s²
(a) Second (b) Metre (c) -10 m/s² (d) -2 m/s²
(c) Kilogram (d) Newton 16. What is the unit of displacement?
6. If an object moves 100 meters in 20 (a) Second (b) Meter
seconds, what is its speed? (c) Kilogram (d) Newton
(a) 5 m/s (b) 2 m/s 17. What is the difference between speed
(c) 10 m/s (d) 20 m/s and velocity?
7. What is velocity? (a) Speed is a scalar, velocity is a vector
(a) Speed in a particular direction (b) Speed is a vector, velocity is a scalar
(b) Speed in all directions (c) Speed includes direction, velocity
(c) Speed without direction does not
(d) Distance per unit time (d) There is no difference
8. Which of the following is a vector 18. If an object covers equal distances in
quantity? equal intervals of time, it is said to be in
(a) Speed (b) Distance __________.
(c) Velocity (d) Mass (a) Non-uniform motion
9. What is acceleration? (b) Uniform motion
a) Change in speed (c) Accelerated motion
b) Change in velocity (d) Circular motion
c) Change in direction 19. What is the formula for acceleration?
d) Change in distance (a) Acceleration = Velocity / Time
10. Which of the following is the unit of (b) Acceleration = Time / Velocity
acceleration? (c) Acceleration = Change in velocity /
(a) m/s (b) m/s² Time
(c) m (d) m²/s (d) Acceleration = Distance / Time
20. What does a horizontal line on a 30. Which of the following represents non-
distance-time graph indicate? uniform motion?
(a) Constant speed (a) Constant speed
(b) Increasing speed (b) Increasing speed
(c) Stationary object (c) Decreasing speed
(d) Decreasing speed (d) Both b and c
21. If an object is moving with uniform 31. If a train travels 120 km in 2 hours,
velocity, what will its acceleration be? what is its average speed?
(a) Zero (b) Positive (a) 60 km/h (b) 120 km/h
(c) Negative (d) Variable (c) 240 km/h (d) 30 km/h
22. Which physical quantity is described 32. What does a curved line on a distance-
by the area under the velocity-time time graph indicate?
graph? (a) Uniform motion
(a) Speed (b) Acceleration (b) Non-uniform motion
(c) Distance (d) Displacement (c) No motion
23. What does a steep slope on a distance- (d) Constant speed
time graph indicate? 33. An object covers 80 meters in 4
(a) Slow speed (b) Fast speed seconds. What is its speed?
(c) No motion (d) Uniform motion (a) 10 m/s (b) 20 m/s
24. If a cyclist is moving at a constant (c) 40 m/s (d) 5 m/s
speed of 10 m/s, how far will they travel 34. Which of the following is not a unit of
in 5 seconds? speed?
(a) 50 m (b) 100 m (a) m/s (b) km/h
(c) 10 m (d) 5 m (c) m/s² (d) m/min
25. What kind of motion is described by an 35. If an object is decelerating, what will be
object moving in a circular path at the sign of its acceleration?
constant speed? (a) Positive (b) Negative
(a) Uniform motion (c) Zero (d) Variable
(b) Non-uniform motion 36. Which physical quantity can be zero
(c) Uniform circular motion even when an object is moving?
(d) Non-uniform circular motion (a) Speed (b) Distance
26. What is displacement? (c) Displacement (d) Velocity
(a) Total path length travelled 37. What is the initial velocity of an object
(b) Change in position of an object starting from rest?
(c) Time taken to cover a distance (a) 1 m/s (b) 5 m/s
(d) Speed in a particular direction (c) 0 m/s (d) 10 m/s
27. Which quantity is described by both 38. Which term describes the total length
magnitude and direction? of the path travelled by an object?
(a) Speed (b) Distance (a) Speed (b) Displacement
(c) Scalar (d) Vector (c) Distance (d) Velocity
28. A car accelerates from rest to 60 km/h 39. What does the term ‘deceleration’
in 10 seconds. What is its average mean?
acceleration? (a) Increase in speed
(a) 6 km/h² (b) 10 km/h² (b) Decrease in speed
(c) 3 km/h² (d) 60 km/h² (c) Constant speed
29. What is the unit of velocity? (d) Zero speed
(a) m/s² (b) m/s
(c) km (d) s/m
40. In which type of motion is the speed 49. What is the term for the rate of change
constant but direction changes? of displacement?
(a) Linear motion (a) Speed (b) Velocity
(b) Uniform motion (c) Acceleration (d) Distance
(c) Circular motion 50. Which factor does not affect the motion
(d) Non-uniform motion of an object?
41. An object travels 15 meters north and (a) Speed (b) Mass
then 20 meters south. What is its (c) Colour (d) Direction
displacement? 51. What would be the displacement of a
(a) 5 meters (b) 35 meters particle moving in a circular path of
(c) 15 meters (d) 20 meters radius r after a displacement of half a
42. If a car’s speedometer reads a constant circle?
speed, what kind of motion is it in? (a) 2 r (b) r
(a) Non-uniform motion (c) 2r (d) Zero
(b) Accelerated motion 52. The path length travelled by a body in
(c) Uniform motion a given time interval is known as _____.
(d) Stationary (a) distance (b) velocity
43. A ball is thrown upwards and then (c) acceleration (d) moment
comes down. What is the direction of its 53. Which of the following situations is
acceleration? true and possible?
(a) Upwards (b) Downwards (a) If the velocity of a body is zero, then
(c) Horizontal (d) None of the above the acceleration can be non-zero
44. Which of the following is a scalar (b) A body moving at a constant velocity
quantity? can have acceleration
(a) Velocity (b) Displacement (c) The magnitude of distance and
(c) Acceleration (d) Speed displacement are equal in a circular
45. If an object moves with a constant motion
speed in a straight line, what is its (d) All of the above
acceleration? 54. Velocity is defined as _____ per time.
(a) Zero (b) Positive (a) distance (b) displacement
(c) Negative (d) Constant (c) power (d) acceleration
46. Which of the following graphs shows an 55. A body moving in a straight line has a
object moving with uniform uniform motion if it travels _____
acceleration? distance in equal time intervals.
(a) A straight line in distance-time graph (a) equal (b) unequal
(b) A curved line in distance-time graph 56. Suppose a boy is moving with a
(c) A straight line in velocity-time graph uniform velocity of 10 m/s on a merry-
(d) A horizontal line in velocity-time go-round ride. Which of the following is
graph true of the given scenario?
47. If an object is slowing down, what kind (a) The boy is at rest
of acceleration does it have? (b) The boy is moving with no
(a) Positive acceleration acceleration
(b) Negative acceleration (c) The boy is moving with accelerated
(c) Zero acceleration motion
(d) Infinite acceleration (d) The boy is moving with uniform
48. A car travels 60 km north and then 80 velocity
km east. What is the total distance 57. What does the slope of the distance-
covered? time graph give?
(a) 20 km (b) 140 km (a) speed (b) velocity
(c) 60 km (d) 80 km (c) acceleration (d) displacement
58. What does the slope of the velocity-time 64. A particle is moving in a circular path
graph give? of radius r.
(a) speed (b) velocity
(c) acceleration (d) displacement
59. Which of the following is true of a free-
falling body?
(a) It moves with non-uniform motion
(b) It has zero velocity
(c) It has constant non-zero acceleration
(d) It has non-uniform acceleration
The displacement after half a circle
60. The physical quantity that has both
would be:
magnitude and direction is known as
(a) Zero (b) r
(a) vectors (b) scalars
(c) 2r (d) 2 r
(c) Both(a) and (b) (d) Neither (a) or (b)
65. Which of the following can sometimes
61. If the displacement of an object is
be ‘zero’ for a moving body?
proportional to square of time, then the
i. Average velocity
object moves with:
ii. Distance travelled
(a) Uniform velocity
iii. Average speed
(b) Uniform acceleration
iv. Displacement
(c) Increasing acceleration
(a) Only (i) (b) (i) and (ii)
(d) Decreasing acceleration
(c) (i) and (iv) (d) Only (iv)
62. From the given v-t graph, it can be
66. Which of the following statement is
inferred that the object is
correct regarding velocity and speed of a
moving body?
(a) Velocity of a moving body is always
higher than its speed
(b) Speed of a moving body is always
higher than its velocity
(c) Speed of a moving body is its velocity
in a given direction
(d) Velocity of a moving body is its speed
(a) At rest in a given direction
(b) In uniform motion 67. When a car driver travelling at a speed
(c) Moving with uniform acceleration of 10 m/s applies brakes and brings the
(d) In non-uniform motion car to rest in 20 s, then the retardation
63. Suppose a boy is enjoying a ride on a will be:
marry-go-round which is moving with a (a) + 2 m/s2 (b) − 2 m/s2
constant speed of 10 m/s. It implies that (c) − 0.5 m/s 2 (d) + 0.5 m/s2
the boy is:
(a) At rest
(b) Moving with no acceleration
(c) In accelerated motion
(d) Moving with uniform velocity
68. The speed – time graph of a car is given 72. A car is travelling at a speed of 90
here. Using the data in the graph km/h. Brakes are applied so as to
calculate the total distance covered by produce a uniform acceleration of – 0.5
the car. m/s2. Find how far the car will go before
it is brought to rest?
(a) 8100 m (b) 900 m
(c) 625 m (d) 620 m
73. In a free fall the velocity of a stone is
increasing equally ion equal intervals of
time under the effect of gravitational
force of the earth. Then what can you
say about the motion of this stone?
Whether the stone is having:
(a) Uniform acceleration
(b) Non-uniform acceleration
(c) Retardation
(a) 1250 m (b) 875 m (d) Constant speed
(c) 1500 m (d) 870 m 74. The numerical ratio of displacement to
69. A car of mass 1000 kg is moving with a distance for a moving object is:
velocity of 10 m/s. If the velocity-time (a) Always less than 1
graph for this car is a horizontal line (b) Equal to 1 or less than 1
parallel to the time axis, then the (c) Always more than 1
velocity of the car at the end of 25 s will (d) Equal to 1 or more than one
be: 75. Four cars A, B, C and D are moving on
(a) 40 m/s (b) 25 m/s a levelled, straight road. Their distance
(c) 10 m/s (d) 250 m/s time graphs are shown in the figure
70. of the following is most likely not a case below. Which of the following is the
of uniform circular motion? correct statement regarding the motion
(a) Motion of the earth around the sun of these cars?
(b) Motion of a toy train on a circular
track
(c) Motion of a racing car on a circular
track
(d) Motion of hours’ hand on the dial of a
clock
71. In which of the following cases of
motions, the distance moved and the
magnitude of the displacement are
equal?
i. If the car is moving on a straight road
ii. If the car is moving in circular path
(a) Car A is faster than car D
iii. The pendulum is moving to and fro
(b) Car B is the slowest
iv. The earth is moving around the sun
(c) Car D is faster than car C
(a) only(ii) (b) (i) and (iii)
(d) Car C is the slowest
(c) (ii) and (iv) (d) only (i)