Vector

Holidays Practice Paper)

sin x
1. Differentiate with respect to x.
1  cos x
1 1 1 1
(1) (2) (3)  (4) 
1  cos x 1  cos x 1  cos x 1  cos x

2. Double differentiation of displacement w.r.t. time is:

(1) acceleration (2) velocity (3) force (4) none

3. y = x(c – x) where c is a constant. The maximum value of y.

c2 c c2 c2
(1) (2) (3) (4)
4 4 2 3

3
4.  x dx is equal to:
x4 x4
(1) 3x2 (2) C (3) (4) 4x3
4 4

5
5.  x 2 dx is equal to:
3 3 7 7
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
(1) X (2) X +C (3) X (4) X +C
7 7 7 7

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6.  x
dx is equal to:

(1) x +C (2) 2 x + C (3) 3 x +C (4) 5 x +C

7. The maximum value of xy subject to x + y = 8, is:

(1) 8 (2) 16 (3) 20 (4) 24

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8. If A is 2 ˆi  9ˆj  4kˆ , then 4A will be:
(1) 8 ˆi  16ˆj  36kˆ (2) 8 ˆi  36kˆ  16 ˆj (3) 8 ˆi  9 ˆj  16kˆ (4) 8 ˆi  36 ˆj  16kˆ

9. Which of the following vector is equal as that of

1m

(1) (2) (3) (4)

1m 2m 1m 1m

10. The function x5 – 5x4 + 5x3 – 10 has a maxima, when x =

(1) 3 (2) 2 (3) 1 (4) 0

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11. The unit vector along A = 2iˆ  3ˆj is:
2iˆ  3ˆj 2iˆ  3ˆj 2iˆ  3ˆj
(1) 2iˆ  3ˆj (2) (3) (4)
2 3 13

12. Which of the following does not represents a vector?


(1) (2) (3) Â (4) A

13. The x-component of a certain vector is 2 units and y-component is +2 3 units. The magnitude of
the vector is:
(1) 2 units (2) 3 units (3) 4 units (4) 5 units

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14. Geometrical representation of A = 2iˆ is
ˆi, ˆj,kˆ are along the shown x,y and z axes:
y

x
z

(1)  
2 units
(2) 2 units (3)  

2 units
(4)
2 units

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15. Geometrical representation of B = 3ˆj in above coordinate system is:

(1) (2) 3 units (3)   (4)

3 units 3 units 3 units
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16. 4A can be represented as (in above coordinate system)
 
(1) (2) (3) A (4) A
8 units 8 units
   
17. Given: A = 2iˆ  3ˆj and B = 5iˆ  6ˆj , The magnitude of (A  B) is:
(1) 120 units (2) 130 units (3) 58 units (4) 65 units

18. Unit vector along 3 ˆi  3ˆj is:

ˆi  ˆj 3 ˆi  3 ˆj ˆi  ˆj
(1) (2) (3) ˆi  ˆj (4)
2 2 3

   
19. Two vectors A and B of unknown magnitudes are along E & D (as shown below) respectively:


E D

 
Then (A  B) cannot be –

(1) (2) (3) (4)

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20. In the above question angle between A and B is:
(1) obtuse (2) Acute
(3) obtuse or acute depending upon there magnitudes (4) None

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21. The area of region between y = sinx and x–axis in the interval 0,  will be:
2  
1
(1) 1 (2) 0 (3) 2 (4)
2

22. The derivative of f(x) = x3 + 3x nx + 5 with respect to x is:

(1) 3x2 + 3x (2) 3x2 + 3nx + 3 (3) 3x2 + 3nx + 5 (4) 3x2 3nx + 8

23. A particle moves along a straight line such that its displacement at any time t is given by:
s = t3 – 6t2 + 3t + 4 metres
The velocity when the acceleration is zero is:
(1) 3 ms–1 (2) –12 ms–1 (3) 42 ms–1 (4) –9 ms–1

24. Integrate the following:

 (sin4t + 2t) dt
1 1
(1)  cos4t + t2 + C (2) cos4t + t2 + C
4 4
(3) 4 cos4t + t2 + C (4) None of these

1
2
25.  (3x  4)dx
0
(1) –5 (2) 5 (3) 4 (4) 3

26. Find a unit vector in the direction from point P(1, –1, 2) to point Q(–1, 1, 1).
2iˆ  2ˆj  kˆ 2iˆ  2ˆj  kˆ 2iˆ  2ˆj  kˆ 2iˆ  2ˆj  kˆ
(1) (2) (3) (4)
3 3 3 3

27. A particle is moving in a straight line. Its displacement at time t is given by s (in m) = – 4t2 + 2t, then
its velocity and acceleration at time t = 1 second are:
2
(1) – 2 m/s, – 8 m/s2 (2) 2 m/s, 6 m/s2 (3) – 2 m/s, 8 m/s2 (4) 2 m/s, 8 m/s2

dy
28. If y = sin x & x = 3t then will be:
dt
(1) 3 cos (x) (2) cos x (3) 3 cos (3t) (4) – cos x

d
29. If  = sec (3) then will be:
d
(1) 3 sec(3) tan(3) (2) 32 sin(3)
(3) sec(3) tan(3) (4) 3 sec2 (3)

30. If î and ˆj are unit vectors along mutually perpendicular directions then the magnitude of ˆi  ˆj is:
(1) 0 (2) 2 (3) 1 (4) 2

3
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2
31. The value of  sin
0
x dx will be:

 
(1) 1 (2) 0 (3) (4)
4 2
  
32. Two vectors a and b inclined at an angle  w.r.t each other have a resultant c which makes an
  
angle  with a . If the direction of a and b are interchanged, then the resultant will have the same:
(1) Magnitude (2) Direction
(3) Magnitude as well as direction (4) Neither magnitude nor direction

33. For the figure shown

           
(1) A  B  C (2) B  C  A (3) C  A  B (4) A  B  C  0
34. Parallelogram law of vectors is applicable to the addition of
(1) Any two vectors
(2) Two scalars
(3) A vector and a scalar
(4) Two vectors representing same physical quantity.
 
    | A B |  
35. If A and B are two non–zero vectors such that | A  B | = and | A | = 2 | B | then the angle
2
between and is:
–1 –1
(1) 37º (2) 53º (3) cos (–3/4) (4) cos (–4/3)

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36. If a = 3 î + 4 ĵ & b = 7 î + 24 ĵ then the vector having the same magnitude as b and same direction

as a is:
(1) 15 î + 20 ĵ (2) 10 î + 20 ĵ (3) 20 î + 15 ĵ (4) 15 î + 10 ĵ

   
37. The resultant of two vectors A and B is perpendicular to A . Magnitude of resultant R is equal to
  
magnitude of A . Then angle between A and B is:
  3
(1) (2) (3) (4) 
4 2 4

38. Component of 3iˆ  4ˆj along ˆi  ˆj will be:

5 7
(1) (2) 7 (3) (4) 7 2
2 2

39. The set of displacements which are not capable of bringing a particle to its returning point are:
(1) 2, 8, 10 and 18 m (2) 5, 10, 20 and 40 m
(3) 20, 30, 40 and 90 m (4) 14, 25, 45 and 75 m

40. A car covers a distance of 2 km in 2.5 minutes. If it covers half of the distance with speed 40 km/hr,
the rest distance it shall cover with a speed of
(1) 56 km/hr (2) 60 km/hr (3) 48 km/hr (4) 50 km/hr

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41. A particle moves along a path ABCD as shown in the figure. Then the magnitude of net
displacement of the particle from position A to D is:

(1) 10 m (2) 5 2 m (3) 9 m (4) 7 2 m

42. A ball is thrown vertically up with a certain velocity. It attains a height of 40 m and comes back to
the thrower. Then the (g = 10 m/s2)
(1) total distance covered by it is 40 m (2) total displacement covered by it is 80 m
(3) total displacement is zero (4) the average velocity for round trip is not zero

43.    
What is the area of parallelogram whose diagonals are represented by 3iˆ  ˆj  kˆ and ˆi – ˆj – kˆ .
(1) 4 2 (2) 3 2 (3) 2 2 (4) 2

44. A body moves with uniformly accelerated motion and travels 200 cm in the first two seconds and
220 cm in the next four seconds. Then velocity at the end of 7 seconds from start is:
(1) 5 cm s–1 (2) 10 cm s–1 (3) 15 cm s–1 (4) 20 cm s–1

1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (1) 4. (2) 5. (4)

6. (2) 7. (2) 8. (4) 9. (3) 10. (3)
11. (4) 12. (1) 13. (3) 14. (1) 15. (2)
16. (2) 17. (2) 18. (1) 19. (3) 20. (2)
21. (1) 22. (2) 23. (4) 24. (1) 25. (2)
26. (1) 27. (1) 28. (1,3) 29. (1,2)
30. (2) 31. (3) 32. (1) 33. (3) 34. (4)
35. (3) 36. (1) 37. (3) 38. (3) 39. (2)
40. (2) 41. (4) 42. (3) 43. (3) 44. (2)