Motion in Straight Line Worksheet

WORKSHEET
CLASS XI (SCIENCE)
CHAPTER : MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE
Distance and Displacement

1. Find the distance and displacement of a particle travelling from one point to another, say from pt. A
to B, in a given path.
2. If a particle travels a distance of 5 m in straight line and returns back to the initial point, then find (i)
Total distance travelled (ii) Total displacement .
3. A person in his morning walk moves on a semi- circular track of radius 40 m. Find the distance
travelled and the displacement, when he starts from one end of the track and reaches the other
end.
Speed , Average speed and Instantaneous speed

Velocity , Average velocity and Instantaneous velocity
4. If a particle travels the first half distance with speed v1 and second half distance with speed v2 .Find
its average speed during the journey.
5. A particle moves in a straight line for 20 seconds with velocity 3 m/s and then moves with velocity 4
m/s for another 20 seconds and finally moves with velocity 5m/s for next 20 seconds. What is the
average velocity of the particle?
6. If a train moves from station A to B with a constant speed v1 =40 km/h and returns back to the
initial point A with a constant speed V2 =30 km/h, then calculate the average speed and average
velocity.
7. If a particle travels with speed v1 during first half time interval and with speed v2 during second half
time interval. Find its average speed during its journey.
8. A car moves with a velocity 2.24 km/h in first minute, with 3.60 km/h in the second minute and
with 5.18 km/h in the third minute. Calculate the average velocity in these three minutes.
9. The position of an object moving along x-axis is given by x = a + bt2 where a = 8.5 m, b = 2.5 m s–2
and t is measured in seconds. What is its velocity at t = 0 s and t = 2.0 s. What is the average
velocity between t = 2.0 s and t = 4.0 s ?
10. The distance travelled by a particle in time t is given by s(t) = 2.5 t2 . Find (a) the average speed of
the particle during time 0 to 5 s? (b) The instantaneous speed at t = 5.0 sec
11. The position of an object moving along x-axis is given by x = 8.0 + 2.0t2 , where x is in meter and t is
in second. Calculate: (i) the velocity at t = 0 and t = 2.0 sec. (ii) average velocity between 2.0 sec and
4.0 sec.
12. The displacement of a particle starting from rest (at t= 0) is given by s = 6t2 - t 3 at what time when
the particle will attain zero velocity again ?
Acceleration , Average Acceleration and Instantaneous acceleration
13. (a) If s = 2t3 + 3t2 + 2t + 8 then find time at which acceleration is zero.
(b) Velocity of a particle (starting at t = 0) varies with time as v = 4t. Calculate the displacement of
particle between t = 2 to t = 4 s.
14. The velocity of a particle is given by v = (2t2 – 4t + 3) m/s where t is time in seconds. Find its
acceleration at t = 2 second.
15. The displacement of a particle along X-axis is given by x = 3 + 8t + 7t2 . Obtain its velocity and
acceleration at t = 2s.
16. The displacement of a particle is represented by the following equation: s = 3t 3 + 7t2 + 5t + 8 Where
s is in metres and t in second. calculate the acceleration of the particle at t = 1s
17. A particle moves along a straight line such that its displacement at any time t is given by
s = t3 – 6t2 + 3t + 4 metres.
what is the velocity when the acceleration is zero .
18. The position x of a particle varies with time (t) as x = at2 - bt3 . At what time the acceleration at time
t of the particle will be equal to zero ?
19. A particle moves along a straight line such that its displacement x from a fixed point on the line at
time t is given by x = at2 + 2bt + c Find acceleration as a function of displacement x.
Graphical Representation of motion

20.The a - t graph is shown in the figure. calculate the maximum velocity attained by the body .
21.The velocity–time graph of a body moving in a straight line is shown in Fig. Find the displacement
and distance travelled by the body in 10 sec.
22. The velocity time graph of a moving object is given in the figure. Find the maximum
acceleration of the body and distance travelled by the body in the interval of time during which this
acceleration exists.
23. The velocity time graph of a moving object is given in the figure.
calculate (a) Displacement in time interval of 0 to 2 sec
(b) displacement in time interval of 2 to 6 sec
( c) total displacement in 8 sec .
(d) Acceleration of the object in 2 sec .
Equation of Motion
24.Obtain equations of motion for constant acceleration using method of calculus.
25. A particle moving with an initial velocity 2.5 m/s along the positive x direction accelerates uniformly
at the rate 0.50 m/s2 . (i) Find the distance travelled in the first 2 sec. (ii) Calculate the time taken to
reach the velocity of 7.5 m/s ? (iii) Calculate the distance travelled in reaching the velocity 7.5 m/s?
26.3 A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 20 m s–1 from the top of a multistorey
building. The height of the point from where the ball is thrown is 25.0 m from the ground. (a) How
high will the ball rise ? and (b) how long will it be before the ball hits the ground? Take g = 10 m s –2 .
27.A car moving along a straight highway with speed of 126 km h–1 is brought to a stop within a
distance of 200 m. What is the retardation of the car (assumed uniform), and how long does it take
for the car to stop ?
28. A person sitting in the ground floor of a building notices through the window of height 1.5m, a ball
dropped from the roof of the building crosses the window in 0.1 s. What is the velocity of the ball
when it is at the topmost point of the window? (g = 10 m/s2 )
29. A ball is thrown in horizontal direction from a height of 80 m with initial speed v 0. The ball hits the
ground with speed 3v0. The magnitude of v0 is (Let g = 9.8 m/s2 )
30. The driver of a bus moving at an speed of 60 km/hr saw a man at a distance of 52 m from the bus.
The driver stopped the car at a distance of 2 m from the man using brake. calculate the time
required to stop the bus .
31. A car starts from rest with a constant acceleration of 5 ms–2. At the same time a bus travelling with
uniform velocity of 50 ms–1 overtakes and passes the car. calculate the distance through which the
car again overtakes the bus .
32. If a car at rest, accelerates uniformly to a speed of 144km/h in 20s, Calculate the distance covers by
car .
33. A block is kept on the floor of an elevator at rest. The elevator starts descending with an
acceleration of 12 m/s2 . Find the displacement of the block during the first 0.2 s after the start.
34.The velocity of a car travelling on a straight road is 36 kmh–1 at an instant of time. Now travelling
with uniform acceleration for 10 s, the velocity becomes exactly double. If the wheel radius of the
car is 25 cm, then which of the following is the closest to the number of revolutions that the wheel
makes during this 10 s?

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Speed , Average speed and Instantaneous speed

Graphical Representation of motion

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