Motion in a Straight Line: Key Concepts
Motion in a Straight Line: Key Concepts
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body is at rest at x = 0 At t= 0, it 3.
in the positive x-direction
moving The location of a particle is changed. The
starts
acceleration. At the same
cOnstant displacement and distance covered by the
with a body passes through x = 0
another
particle
1)both cannot be zero
in the positive X-direction with a
jstant
MOVing
The position of the first
speed.
2) one ofthe two may be zero
constant 3) both must be zero
given by x(1) after time ' and 4)both must be equal
body is 4.
A mosquite flies from point
the second body by x, (t) after the
that of A(-1.2,3)m toa point B(2,-1,-2) m. The
sametime interval. Which ofthe following
dispalcement of the mosquito is
grephs correctly describes (x-x,) as a
function of time
'r ? s3i-3)-sk)m 2/(3 +3j+ skJn
(r,-x,)
(,-1,)
3)(3i-3j+ SkJm 4)3i +3j- Sk)m
5. A particle moves along the X - axis
2) starting from x=+2matt=0. At t=5s it
1) 0s at x= +8m and at t= 1 2s it is at x= -12m.
The displacementof the particle in 12s.
t 1) -10m 2) 8m 3) -14m 4) 16 m
6. A particle moving along circular path of
(-,) (x-x,) radius1nm completes 2(1/4)" revolution.
Then displacement and distance of the
particle are (in metre)
2) 2, 9r
4) 6n
3) 1)3. 2 2
3) V2,
2
4) V4.
7. To reach your school at 10:30am, let you
start at 10:00am. first you move 800 m
so: As, x, (t)=at and x, (1) = V towards East, then 600m towards North
2 and finally 200m towards West. Then net
displacement is
. x-x, =at' -vt (parabola)
Clearty, graph (2) represents it correctly. 2)(60 -600j) m
3)(s00i-s5oj)m 4)(700i- 6s0j)m
EXERCISE I 8. A person moves 30m north and then 20m
Distance and displacement towards east and finally 30/2 min south
west direction. The displacement of the
. The numerical ratio of displacement to person from the origin will be
distance is 1) 10malong north 2) 10 m along south
) always less than I 3) 10malongwest 4) zero
2) always greater than 1 Speed and velocity
3) always equal to l If a particle moves in a circle describing
9.
4) may be less than l or equal to one equal angles in equal intervals of time, then
particle travels along a curved path the velocity vector
between two points Pand Oasshown. The 1) remains constant.
displacment of the particle depends on 2) changes in magnitude.
3)changes in direction.
4)changes both in magnitude and direction.
10. The numerical value of the ratio of average
P velocity to average speed is
)the locations of P and Q )always less than one
2) the choice of origin 2) always equal to one
) the direction ofÌ from P 3) always more than one
AM the length of the line joining Pand Q 4)equal to or less than one.
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11. An object may have 16. In one dimensionalI motion,
a) varying speed without having varying
velocity
speed vsatisfies 0<v<V,, here instantanew,
maximum speed of the particle. vis the
b)varying velocity without having varying the displacement in time T must Then
speed non-ncgative values. always tak
c) non zero acceleration without having 2) the displacement K in ime I
varying velocity satisfies
d) non zero acceleration without having 3)the acccleration is always a
varying specd.
)a.b &Care corect
number non-negative
4)the motion has no turning points
2)b& d are corTCCt
Four persons A, B,C and D are
3) a.b dare correct the corners of asquare of side initially at
4)a& d are correct If every person starts moving length
with
'd
12. The correct statement in the following is speed v such that each one faces same
the other
)abody has a coIstant velocity and still it can always, the persons willmeet after ti
have avarying spced d
2) abody has a constant speed but it can have ) 2) 3) 4)
a Narying vclocity 2V
3) abody having constant specd cannot have18. A man walks on a straight road from hi.
any acccleration. bome to a market 2.5 km away with aspeed
4) both land 3 are corrcct of 5 km/h. Finding the market closed. he
13. If a body covers first half of its journey instantly turns and walks back home with
with uniform speed v, and the second half a speed of 7.5 km/h. Then the (a) magnitude
of the journey with uniformn speed v, then of average velocity and (b) average speed
the average speed is of the man over the time interval 0 to 50
min (in kmph).
2 vv; I) 0,4 2)0.6 3) 0.8 4)0.12
) V, +V, 2)
V t V,
Equation of motion
V,V
3) 4) v,V, (19) The distance travelled by a particle in a
+ V
V
straight line motion is directly proportional
Z. Acar is moving along a straight line, say to t'', where t = time elapsed. The nature
OP in figure. It moves from O to Pin 18s of motion is
and returns from PtoQ in 6s. The average 1) increasing acceleration
velocity and average speed of the car in 2) decreasing acceleration
going from O to Pand back to Q is 3) increasing retardation
4) decreasing retardation
o -do o 40 No 12010200 240 280 320 360 400 20. The incorrect statement for a partice
n10ms.20ms 2) 20ms',10ms moving along a straight line is
3)10ms.10mns20ms, 20ms 1)ifthe velocity and acceleration have oppsle
sign, then the object is slowing down.
15.)A particle is moving eastward with a 2) if the position and velocity have opposthe
velocity of 5 m/s. In 10s the velocity sign, then the particle is moving
towards
Aisplacement -time graph of a particle | 54. Among the following option is correct for
respect to a reference point is
The,
S0. moving
with represented
having a straight line motion
a straight line
point is stationary with zero by displacement-time graph.
reference
)the
velocity
2)thea
acceleration ofthe object is zero
moves with unifom velocity
3) body
above
4) all the
Figures shows the displacement- time graph
x-axis
51.
ofaparticle moving on the
Y
B
t
B
l)a,c.d 2) b,c,d
3) a,b 4) c,d B
3, The displacement-time graph of amoving
particle is shown in figure. The A
instantaneous velocity of the particle is
Displacment
negative at the point
I) from O to A, the particle moves with
increasing speed
2) from A to B, the particle moves with
D increasing speed
3) from0 to B, the speed of the particle
continuously increases
Time
4) none of these
1) D 2)F 3)C 4) E
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57. The
position-time (x - ) graphs for two 60. The displacement - time
STRAIGHT
children Aand Bretuming graphsand of te
O to their homes P and Q from their school
bodies A and B are OP
shown in figure then respectively are respectively. If POX is 60"
is 45°, the ratio of the
of B is velocity andof AZ00
P
to tha
Relative motion
62. A small body is dropped from a rising
balloon. Aperson Astands on ground, whe
Then acceleration versus time graph is another person B is on the balloon. Choost
the correct statement immediately after
the body is released.
1) 2) o 1)Aand B, both feel that the body is comtiy
(going) down.
2) AandB, both feel that body is comng
3) Afeels that the body is coming down, whie
B feels that the body is going
3) o 4) 4) Afeels that the body is up up, whileB
going
feels that the body is going down.
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INA
M o I O N
descends
4
he his direction and reached the
2
A g a i n s t
storicd
a specd of 20m/s. If the
storey at (g-10m/s)
storey is4m, the nmber of
15th
I) 3.5 ms 2) 8.5 ms
heightt of cach
i 3) 5 ms 4) 12 ms
storeys in the building is (takeg- 10s
resistance) Graphs
and ncglect air 4)35 T6. A train starts from rest and moves
with
2)25 3) 30
1) 20
friction of the air causes a vertical
uniform acceleration a for some time and
I. The of the acquires a velocity 'v'. It then moves with
retardation equal to 10%
constant velocity for some time and then
ceeleration due to gravity. Take
decelerates at rate ß and finally comes to
g=10m s The maximum height and
rest at the next station. If Lis distance
time to reach the mavimumheight willbe between two stations then total time of
deereased by travel is
I) 9°%. 9°o 2) 11%. 11%
)9%. 10% 4) 11%.9% L v I 1 L
1) + 2)
2 Aball A is dropped from the top of a 2 a B B
building and at the same time an identical
ball Bis thrownvertically upward from the L v1 1 L
+
ground. VWhen the balls collide the speed 3) V 2 a ß 4)
2 a
of Ais twice that of B. Collision occurs at 17. Initially car Ais 10.5 m ahead of car B.
afraction of the height of the building is Both start moving at time t=0 in the same
1)13 2)2/3 3) 5/3 4) 7/3
An object falls from a bridge that is 45m direction along a straight line. The velocity
above the water. It falls directly into a small time graph of two cars is shown in figure.
The time when the car B will catch the car
row-boat moving with constant velocity that A is
was 12m from the point ofimpactwhen the
object was released. Then the speed of the V
Car B
boat isg=10ms)
I) 2ms 2) 3 m/s 10 m/s Car A
3) 5m/s 4) 4 m/s
14. Astone is dropped from the top of a tall
cliff and n seconds later another stone is
thrown vertically downwards with a 1) 21s 2) 20s 3) 2V5s 4) 2%
velocity u. Then the second stone 18. A car, starting from rest, accelerates at the
overtakes the first. below the top of the rate fthrough a distance S, then continues
cliff at a distance given by at constant speed for time t and then
decelerate at the rate (f/2) to come to rest.
gn
n gn
If the totaldistance travelled is I55, then
2 -u 2)S - t
)S=tt
)2 (gn - u) 2) 2 (gn -u)
3) S i 4) S tt
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19. An elevator is going up. The variation STRAIGHT
22. Ajet airplane travelling at the LINE
the velocity of the elevator is as given in km/h ejects its products of speed of Sa
the graph. The height to which the elevatorin combustion
the speed of 1500 km/h relative
takes the passengers is plane. The speed of the latter w to the
to anobserver on the ground iswith je
velocity
) -100kmph 2) -100Okmph
respect
36 3) -10kmph 4) -1lkmph
23. Apassenger train of length 60 m
a speed of 80 km/hr. Another traves at
Time
10 12
of length 120 mtravels at a freight train
1) 3.6nm 2) 28.8m 3) [Link] 4)[Link] km/h. The ratio of times takenspeed of 3,
20. Figure shows the displacement-time (x-t) passenger train to completely by the
graph ofa body moving in a straightline. freight train when (i) they are cross the
One of the graphs shown in figure same direction, and (ii) in the moving in
represents the velocity-time (v-t) graph of directions is opposite
the motion of the body. 11 3
25
1)
5 2)3 3)
2 4)
24. A
person standing on an open ground
the sound of a jet aeroplane, coming hear
from
north at an angle 60 with ground level.
Buthe finds the aeroplane right vertical
above his position. If v is the speed of
sound, speed of the plane is
10 15 20 t
2v
V
2
-v 2)3 3) v 4)
25. A body is thrown up in a lift with an
1)0 2)o upward velocity u relative to the lift from
5 10 15 20 S10 Î5 120 its floor and the time of flight is found to
be 't'. The acceleration of the lift will be
u-gt u+gt 2u-gi
1) 2) 3) 4) -8
2
01)3 02) 3 03) 1I 04) 2 05) 4 14. Let second stone overtakes th first, at time
06) 1 07)2 08) 2 09) 3 10) 1 after the first stone was dropped
I1) 1 12)2 13)4 14) 1 15) 1 1
l6) 11 17)! 18) 3 19) 3 20) 4 -gt=u(t -n)+-g(t-n)
2
21) 1 22) 2 23) 1 24) 4 25)3 2
26) 816 27)0.61 xl0x(0.5)
28) 5 29 )4 15. S= ut +at’3=(vx 0.5) -
MOTION IN A NIN ASTRAIGHT LINE
STRAIGHT LINE
MOTION
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2m wide truck is moving with a uniform
A C) they reach the other ends of ABwith
=8 ms along a straight
= 20+ t+20’=4% speed , equal velocities if
29 20t horizontal road. Apedestrain starts to
Total road1distance used movertak ing cross the road with a uniform speed y (u, +u )(a, -a,) =8(a,u, -a,u, )
-20 +20t =20+ 20(4) =100m -0.1km whenthe truck is 4 maway from him. The D) they reach the other ends ofAB with
minimum value of vs0 that he Can cross cqual velocities if
0.0k safely is
0.1= v0.0k >0.01= the road (u, -u )la, +a,) =8{a ,u, -a,u,)
A) 2.62 ms B) 4.6 ms 8. Aparticle moves along a straight line so
k=Iso(k +1) =(l+)-4
C) 3.57 ms D) 1.414 ms that its velocity depends on time as
v= 4 - . Then for first 5s
EXERCISE - I body is thrown vertically upwards from
5. A.A the top of a tower. It reaches the A) average velocity is 25/3 ms
SINGLE ANSWER QUESTIONS
time ,..1Ifit isthrown vertically
groundin
B) average speed is 10 ms
The acceleration of the particle is
1. increasing linearly with time t as a=bt. downward from Awith thesame speed, it C) average velocity is 5 3 ms
If it is
The particle starts from the origin with reaches the ground in time t,. D) acceleration is 4 ms at t=0
the time whose
an initial velocity v, The distance allowedto fallIfreely from A,then 9. Aparticle is moving abng X-axis
ground is given by
travelled by the particle in time t' will he ittakes to reach the +
position is given by x=4-9t 3
Mark
B) V +br
B)= in relation to its
A)1=
2 2 the correct statement(s)
6 3 motion.
at anyof
D)= A) direction ofmotion is not changng
C) ; / + b r ' D) V,{ +b' C) t=/44, the instants
3 2 direction of motion is changing
at t=3 s
rest B)
from a stationary slowing down
6. A man jumps
from
C) for 0<t<3s, the particle is
2. A particle moves along the positive which is situated at a height H. the particle is speeding up.
helicopter
man is bailed after D) for 0<t<3s, moves o1 i. -axis
the
with x If the parachute of 10. A particle of mass from rest at r=0from
branch of the curve y= vertical distance h, he
2 falling through a velocity v. The as follows: It starts comes to rest att= i
reaches the ground with a the point r= 0, and other information is
acceleration exerted
by No
where x and y are average upward at the point r = 1. intermediate
motion at
governed by x= the parachute is available about its
2 denotes the
If 'a'
measured in meters and t in seconds. At 2gh-y' (0<t<l).
times
4gh + y? B) a= acceleration of the particle,
t=2s, the velocity of the particle is A) a =
2(H-h)
2(H-h) instantaneous
then
reman positive
for all t in the
A)2i-4 jm/s B) 2i+4 jm /s 2gh-y' A) a cannot
2gh + y² D)a = interval 0stsl
C)a= 4(H-b) exceed 2 at any
point in its path
C) 4i+2 jmls D) 4;-2jm/s 4(H +h) B) a cannot
4at some point or pontsin its
MULTIPLE ANSWER OUESTIONS
C)la must be >
|3. A sleeve slids along a smooth rotating straight
Pand O move in a from path during the
motion, but
horizontal rodsuch that its accelerationas 7. Two particles
towards each
other. Pstarts change sign
D)a must assertion can be made with
the
the rod line AB acceleration a,.
varies with the positon x along velocity u, and anvelocity u, and
no other
nfomation given. straight with
the
A with a
d'x from B with at moves in At
constant. Qstarts each other . A
particle
shown in figure.
= kx, where k is a positive They pass velocity as
dt acceleration ABand arive at the other
a,.
t=0,x =-l6 m
with a midpoint of velocities.
If the sleeve starts from x , ne with equal time
the ends ofAB midpoint at
velocity v,, then the position x when meet at
speed will be doubled. A) they t(s)
2(u, -u, )
i.e., AB is
t position
2
2v, +XB) x (a, - a,) specitied value of the
A)x = 'path A) the
maximum
is 54 m.
k B) the length of coordinate
ofthe particle
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L=
(a, -a, )
C) x = D) x =
Vk
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Two buses A
and Bare
at positions Which
ofthe following graphs would best
position16.
from the origin at 50 1. acceleration versus time for the EXERC ISE -11-KEY
value of the and 100 m time t =0. m represent
Ascelratior
maximum
B) the in the same bouncing ball
of the particle is 36 m. of 36 m at moving
coordinate
) the particle is
at the position
They start
simultaneously with uniformn direction
velocity of
01)A 02) B 03 )C 04)C 05) C
06) B 07)ABC
|=18 s 10ms and
5ms." Then the position in 08)CD
of36 m at 09) BC
is at the position
D) the particle
1=30s
12. A body starts moving
along a straight line
path with a velocity 10
of the
m/s. After 5 17. A
body from the
metres from the origin
Bis
parachutist drops
aeroplane for 10 seconds
at which
Aovertakes
freely from
betfore the
Acelration Time
Acelration Time
10) AC
and'' is in second.
10 whereX 0S
The averaye
Distance Time
istance
Time
X
2im 8ms
4n
velocity in ms of the
first 3.0 sec of its proton during the D)5
Vcost
motion P
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To ensure the particles P and Q meet at the midpoint of line AB, their initial velocities u and u', and accelerations a and a' respectively, must satisfy the equation (u' - u)(a' + a) = 8(a' u - a u'). This equation implies that both the difference in initial velocities and the sum of the accelerations play a crucial role in determining the positional synchronicity at the midpoint.
Objects released successively from a body moving upwards at uniform acceleration will have varying distances between them over time. As the first object adopts an initial downward acceleration against the body’s original ascent, a greater time lapse before release of the second object results in increased separation due to the compounding positive and negative accelerations affecting their respective motions .
For two particles moving along perpendicular paths to coincide at their nearest point of approach, the critical parameters include their initial positions and velocities. Given initial distances are 12m and 19m and velocities are 2 m/s and A m/s respectively, solving the relative motion equations will define the exact time they reach minimal separation .
At the maximum height of a body thrown vertically upwards, its velocity becomes zero while the gravitational acceleration remains constant. Hence, its kinetic energy at this point is zero since kinetic energy depends on velocity squared. The energy transformation during the ascent converts kinetic into potential energy influenced by gravitational acceleration .
A body dropped from a lift moving with uniform acceleration experiences apparent weightlessness momentarily as it achieves zero relative velocity to the lift. The measurable outcome is the equal fall times to the lift's floor despite typical gravitational acceleration, due to the compensating lift acceleration .
On the Moon, to reach the same height as on Earth, a body must be projected with a lower velocity, considering the Moon's weaker gravitational pull compared to Earth's . However, this result assumes no other forces are acting, like air resistance, and does not consider differences in atmospheric conditions, which might affect real projections.
When a particle moves under the condition where acceleration a is increasing linearly with time t as a = bt, the particle's velocity v and position x at any time can be described using integration of the acceleration. The distance traveled in time t, given an initial velocity v0, is x = v0t + (1/2) b t^3, indicating acceleration contributes quadratically to distance via velocity .
For a particle whose velocity v is given as a function of time, to change its direction of motion, the velocity should reach zero and then reverse. For the equation v = 4 - 9t + 3, the direction of motion changes at t = 3 seconds where the velocity is zero. This marks a point of directional change .
When a body is projected upwards compared to downward from a tower with the same speed, it reaches the ground in different times due to having to decelerate over a longer path than when moving downwards. The initial upwards motion converts speed to potential energy, delaying ground impact, as described by kinematic equations .
When retardation is increased by 12.5%, the stopping distance of a train moving initially at 30 m/s, which reduces speed to 10 m/s over 240 m, decreases. The distance traveled before coming to rest shortens compared to the original setup where retardation is not increased, demonstrating the direct influence of retardation on stopping distance .