MOTION(Worksheet)
1. An object has moved through a distance. Can it have zero displacement ? If yes, support your
answer with an example.
2. A farmer moves along the boundary of a square field of side 10 m in 40 s. What will be the
magnitude of displacement of the farmer at the end of 2 minutes 20 seconds from his initial
position?
3. Which of the following is true for displacement? (a) It cannot be zero. (b) Its magnitude is greater
than the distance travelled by the object.
4. An object travels 16 m in 4 s and then another 16 m in 2 s . What is the average speed of the
object?
5. Distinguish between speed and velocity.
6. Under what conditions (s) is the magnitude of average velocity of an object equal to its average
speed ?
7. What does the path of an object look like when it is in uniform motion ?
8. During an experiment, a signal from a spaceship reached the ground station in five minutes. What
was the distance of the spaceship from the ground station? The signal travels at the speed of light,
that is, 3 × 108 m/s
9. The odometer of the car reads 2000 km at the start of the trip and 2400 km at the end of the trip.
If the trip took 8 h, calculate the average speed of the car in km/hr and m/s.
A. 50 km/h or 13.9 m/s
B. 40 km/h or 12.5 m/s
C. 50 km/h or 12.5 m/s
D. 40 km/h or 13.9 m/s
10. Usha swims in a 90 m long pool. She covers 180 m in one minute by swimming from one end to
the other and back along the same length path. Find the average speed and average velocity of
Usha.
11. Starting from a stationary position , Rahul paddles his bicycle to attain a velocity of 6 m/s in 30
s . Then he applies brakes such that the velocity of bicycle comes down to 4 m/s in the next 5 s .
Calculate the acceleration of the bicycle in both the cases.
12. A bus decreases its speed from 80 kilometers per hour to 60 km per hour in 5 seconds, find the
acceleration of the bus.
13. A Train Starting from a Railway Station and Moving with Uniform Acceleration Attains a Speed
of 40 km/hr in 10 Minutes. Find its Acceleration in the Units of m/s 2?
14. A train starting from rest attains a velocity of 72km/hr in 5 minutes . Assuming that the
acceleration is uniform , find (i) the acceleration and (ii) the distance travelled by the train for
attaining this velocity .
15. A car accelerates uniformly from 18 kmph to in 5 second. Calculate (i) the acceleration and (ii)
the distance covered by the car in that time .
16. The brakes applied to a car produce an acceleration of 6 m/s2 in the opposite direction to the
motion . If the car takes 2 s to stop after the application of brakes , calculate the distance it travels
during this time.
17. A bus starting from rest moves with a uniform acceleration of 0.1 m/s2 for 2 minutes. Find
(a) the speed acquired, (b) the distance travelled.
18. A train is travelling at a speed of . Brakes are applied so as to produce a uniform acceleration of .
Find how far the train will go before it is brought to rest.
19. A trolley, while going down an inclined plane, has an acceleration of 2 cm/s2 starting from rest.
What will be its velocity 3 s after the start ?
20. A racing car has a uniform acceleration of 4 m s-2. What distance will it cover in 10 s after start?
21. A stone is thrown in a vertically upward direction with a velocity of 5 m/s. If the acceleration of
the stone during its motion is 10 m/s2 in the downward direction, what will be the height attained
by the stone and how much time will take to reach there ?
22. An athlete complete one round of a circular track of diameter 200 m in 40 s. What will be the
distance covered and the displacement at the end of 2 minutes 20 s?
23. Joseph jogs from one end A to other end B of a straight 300 m road in 2 minutes 30 seconds and
then turns around and jogs 100 m back to point in another 1 minute. What are Joseph's average
speeds and velocities in Jogging (a) form A to B and (b) form A to C ?
24. A driver of a car travelling at 52 kmh−1 applies the brakes and accelerates uniformly in the
opposite direction. The car stops in 5 s. Another driver going at 3 kmh −1 in another car applies his
brakes slowly and stops in 10 s. On the same graph paper, plot the speed versus time graphs for
the two cars. Which of the two cars travelled farther after the brakes were applied?
25. A motorboat starting from rest on a lake accelerates in a straight line at a constant rate of 3.0 m/s2
for 8.0s. How far does the boat travel during this time?
26. An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 42250 km. Calculate its speed if it
takes 24 hours to revolve around the earth.