8th class physics 2 June

1. Free fall of an object (in vacuum) is a case of motion with

(a) uniform velocity (b) uniform acceleration
(b) variable acceleration (d) constant momentum

2. A particle is moving along a circular path of radius 6 m with a uniform speed of 8 ms–1. The
average acceleration when the particle completes one half of the revolution is
16 2 32 2 64 2
(A) ms (B) ms (C) ms (D) None of these
3 3 3

3. If a ball is thrown vertically upwards with speed u, the distance covered during the last t second
of its ascent is
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(a) ut  gt 2 / 2 (b) (u  gt )t (c) ut (d) gt 2 / 2

4. A person throws balls into air after every second. The next ball is thrown when the velocity of the
first ball is zero. How high do the ball rise above his hand?
(a) 2 m (b) 5 m (c) 8 m (d) 10 m

5. A body thrown vertically up from the ground passes the height of 10.2 m twice in an interval of
10s. What was its initial velocity?
(a) 52 ms–1 (b) 61 ms–1 (c) 45 ms–1 (d) 26 ms–1

6. If a stone is thrown up with a velocity of 9.8 ms–1, then how much time will it take to come back?
(a) 1 s (b) 2 s (c) 3 s (d) 4 s

7. A stone falls freely under gravity. The total distance covered by it in the last second of its journey
equals the distance covered by it in first 3s of its motion. The time for which the stone is in air is
(a) 5 s (b) 12 s (c) 15 s (d) 8 s

8. A stone thrown upward with a speed u from the top of the tower reaches the ground with a speed
3u . The height of the tower is
(a) 3u 2 / g (b) 4u 2 / g (c) 6u 2 / g (d) 9u 2 / g

9. A body is thrown vertically upwards from the top A of tower. It reaches the ground in t1s . If it is
thrown vertically downwards from A with the same speed it reaches the ground in t2 s . If it is
allowed to fall freely from A, then the time it takes to reach the ground is given by
t t t t 𝑡
(a) t  1 2 (b) t  1 2 (c) 𝑡 = 𝑡1 𝑡2 (d) 𝑡 = 𝑡1
2 2 2

10. A body is projected with a velocity u. It passes through a certain point above the ground after t1
second. The time interval after which the body passes through the same point during the return
journey is
u  u  u   u2 
(a)   t12  (b) 2   t1  (c)   t1  (d)  2  t1 
g  g  g  g 
11. A helicopter, moving vertically upwards, releases a packet when it is at a certain height above the
ground. The packet initially moves upwards for a time t1 and then falls downwards for a time t2
until it reaches the ground. Then
(a) t1  t2 (b) t1  t2 (c) t1  t2 (d) Data insufficient

12. A ball P is dropped vertically and another ball Q is thrown horizontally with the same velocities
from the same height and at the same time. If air resistance is neglected, then
(a) ball P reaches the ground first
(b) ball Q reaches the ground first
(c) Both reach the ground at the same time
(d) the respective masses of the two balls will decide the time

13. A particle is dropped under gravity from rest from a height ℎ 𝑔 = 9.8 ms−2 and it travels a
distance 9h / 25 in the last second, the height h is
(a) 100 m (b) 122.5 m (c) 145 m (d) 167.5 m

14. A body dropped from the top of a tower covers a distance 7x in the last second of its journey,
where x is the distance covered in first second. How much time does it take to reach the ground?
(a) 3 s (b) 4 s (c) 5 s (d) 6 s

15. A body falls from a height h  200 m . The ratio of distance travelled in each 2s, during t = 0 to t
= 6 s of the journey is
(a) 1 : 4 : 9 (b) 1 : 2 : 4 (c) 1 : 3 : 5 (d) 1 : 2 : 3

16. A particle is thrown vertically upwards. Its velocity at half of the height is 10 ms–1. Then, the
maximum height attained by it is (take g = 10 ms–2)
(a) 16 m (b) 10 m (c) 20 m (d) 40 m

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17. Let v and a denote the velocity and acceleration respectively of a body in one-dimensional
motion. Select the wrong statement(s)?
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(A) v must decreases when a < 0
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(B) speed must increase when a > 0
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(C) speed will increases when both v < 0 and a < 0
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(D) speed will decrease when v < 0 and a > 0

18. Acceleration vs time graph for a particle moving in straight line is as shown in figure. If
particle starts from rest at t = 0, then which of the following curve is true for the same
particle
 a (ms-2 )

2
t (s)
1

(A) (B)
v
v

t
1s
t
1s 2s
(C) (D)
S S

t
t 1s 2s
1s 2 s

19. A particle having a velocity v  v0 at t = 0 is decelerated at the rate a = α v , where α a

is a positive constant.
2 v0
(A) The particle comes to rest at t  .
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(B) The particle will come to rest at infinity.
2v03/ 2
(C) The distance travelled by the particle is

2 v3/ 2
(D) The distance travelled by the particle is 0 .
3 
20. Pick the correct statements:
(A) Average speed of a particle in a given time is never less than the magnitude of the
average velocity

 d v
dv
(B) It is possible to have a situation in which  0 but 0
dt dt
(C) The average velocity of a particle is zero in a time interval. It is possible that the
instantaneous velocity is never zero in the interval
(D) The average velocity of a particle moving on a straight line is zero in a time interval. It
is possible that the instantaneous velocity is never zero in the interval, (infinite
accelerations are not allowed).

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