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RECTILINEAR MOTION

IJSO STAGE-I/KVPY/JEE-MAINS/AIEEE/ PREVIOUS

1. A car starts from point A. travels on a straight road and stops at its destination B. The distance - time
graph of this journey has nature : (IJSO/Stage-I/2008)
d d d d

(A) t (B) t (C) t (D) t

2. A body describes uniform. accelerated motion along a straight line. Which of the following
displacement time graphs shown represent the motion correctly? (IJSO/Stage-I/2009)
S
S

(I) t (II) t

S S

(III) t (IV ) t

(A) (I) only (B) (I) and (IV) only

(C) (I), (III) and (IV) only (D) (I), (II), (III) and (IV) all

3. A body traveling along a straight line with a uniform acceleration has velocities 5m/s at a point A and
15 m/s at a point B respectively. If M is the midpoint of AB, then : (IJSO/ Stage-I/2009)
 5 – 1
(A) the ratio of times taken by the body to cover distance MB and AM is  .
 2 
(B) the velocity at M is 5 5 m/s

(C) average velocity over AM is

5 5 1  
m/s
2
(D) the product of the acceleration and the distance AB is 100 m2/s2

4. An arrow shot vertically upwards loses its initial speed by 60% in 3 seconds. The maximum height
reached by the arrow is (g = 9.8 ms–2 ) : (IJSO/Stage-I/2011)
(A) 122.5 m (B) 44.1 m (C) 100 m (D) 45 m

5. A ball is dropped from a height of 7.2 m. It bounces back to 3.2 m after striking the floor. the ball
remains in contact with the floor for 20 ms. Given that g = 10 ms–2, the average acceleration of the
ball during the contact is : (IJSO/Stage-I/2011)
(A) 100 ms–2 (B) 200 ms–2 (C) 600 ms–2 (D) 1000 ms–2
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6. A vibrator is generating a wave on the surface of water. An object x is floating on the surface. Which
of the following graphs, of the floating object is/are correct?

(A) i, ii and iv (B) only ii (C) only iii (D) ii and iii

7. A ball is released from rest above a horizontal surface. The graph shows the variation with time of
its velocity (not to scale). The scale on this graph is changed at every impact. A, B, C, D and E
represent areas. Which of the following are correct ? (IJSO/Stage-I/2011)

(A) A = B & B = C (B) A = C & C = E (C) B = C & D = E (D) all of the above
8. A ball is thrown up vertically in still air with a velocity of 20ms . It comes back to ground. The
–1

velocity - Time graph is : (g = 10ms–2). (IJSO/Stage-I/2012)

(A) (B)

(C) (D)
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9. A 100 m sprinter increases her speed from rest uniformly at the rate of 1 m/s2 up to 40 m and
covers the remaining distance with uniform speed. The sprinter covers the first half of the run in t1 s
and the second half in t 2 s. Then : (IJSO/Stage-I/2012)
(A) t1 > t2 (B) t1 < t2
(C) t1 = t2 (D) information given is incomplete

10. A particle starting from rest is moving with uniform acceleration in a straight line. The percentage
increase of the displacement of the particle in 9th second compared to that in the immediate previous
second is about: (IJSO/Stage-I/2014)
(A) 8.3% (B) 20.6% (C) 13.3% (D) 24.5%

11. A particle is moving along a straight line. Its velocity time graph is as shown in the adjacent figure.
Then Match the following : (IJSO/Stage-I/2014)
Physical quantity Remarks
(i) Acceleration at 4 second (p) Positive
(ii) Velocity at 4 second (q) Negative
(iii) Direction of motion at 2 second (r) Zero
v(ms–1)
4
2
t(s)
1 2 3 45 6

(A) (i, is (p); (ii) is (q) and (iii) is (r) (B) (i) is (r) ; (ii) is (r) and (iii) is (p)
(C) (i) is (q) ; (ii) is (r) and (iii) is (p) (D) (i) is (q), (ii) is (p) and (iii) is (r)

12. Consider the following two statemens :

Statement-1 : The direction of acceleration of a particle must be always same as that of velocity.
Statement-2 : Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity.
Choose the correct option (IJSO/Stage-I/2014)
(A) Statement-1 is correct while statement -2 is wrong
(B) Statement-1 and 2 are correct.
(C) Statement-1 and 2 are wrong .
(D) Statement-1 is wrong while statement (2) is correct.

13. A particle moves along the x-axis according to the equation x = 6t 2 where x is displacement in
meters and t is time in seconds. Therefore : (IJSO/Stage-I/2015)
(A) the acceleration of the particle is 6 ms–2
(B) the particle follows a parabolic path
(C) each second the velocity of the particle changes by 9.8 ms–1
(D) the velocity of the particle is 6 ms–1 at t = 0.5 s

14. A stone is thrown horizontally and follows the XYZ path as shown in the adjacent figure. The
direction of the acceleration of the stone at point Y is : (IJSO/Stage-I/2015)

(A)  (B)  (C) (D)

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15. The positions of two blocks at successive 0.20-second time intervals are represented by numbered
squares in the figure below. The blocks are moving towards right :(IJSO Stage-I/2017)

The accelerations of the blocks are related as follows :

(A) acceleration of 'a' is greater than acceleration of 'b'
(B) acceleration of 'a' equals acceleration of 'b'. Both accelerations are greater than zero.
(C) acceleration of 'b' is greater than acceleration of 'a'.
(D) acceleration of 'a' equals acceleration of 'b'. Both acceleration are zero.

16. If x,v and t represent displacement (m), velocity (m/s) and time (s) respectively for a certain particle
then which pair of the following figures can be best correlated to each other :
(IJSO Stage-I/2017)

(A) I & II (B) I & III (C) I & IV (D) none of these

17. The take-off speed of Airbus A340 is 288 km/hr. From the taxi track it comes to the main runway and
waits for a while for the final clearance from Air Traffic Control. The aircraft then achieves this speed
within 50 seconds. Neglecting the effect of the wind direction and friction; what should be the
minimum length of main runway decided by civil engineers for this aircraft for a take-off ?
(IJSO Stage-I/2017)
(A) 2400 m (B) 2200 m (C) 2000 m (D) 1800 m

18. A tiny ball of mass m is initially at rest at height H above a cake of uniform thickness h. At some
moment the particle falls freely, touches the cake surface and then penetrates in it at such a
constant rate that its speed becomes zero on just reaching the ground (bottom of the cake). Speed
of the ball at the instant it touches the cake surface and its retardation inside the cake are
respectively : (IJSO Stage-I/2018)

(A) 2gh and g  H – 1 (B) 2g(H – h) and g  H – 1

h  h 

(C) 2gh and g h – 1 (D) 2g(H – h) and g h – 1
H  H 
19. Two particles P1 and P2 move towards origin O, along X and Y-axes at constant speeds u1 and u2
respectively as shown in the figure. At t = 0, the particles P1 and P2 are at distances a and b
respectively from O. Then the instantaneous distance s between the two particles is given by the
relation : (IJSO Stage-I/2018)

(A) s = [a2 + b2 + ( u12  u 22 )t 2 – 2t (au1 + bu2)]1/2 (B) s = [a2 + b2 + ( u12  u 22 )t 2 – 2t (bu1 + au2)]1/2
(C) s = [a2 + b2 + (u12  u 22 )t 2 + 2t (au1 + bu2)]1/2 (D) s = [a2 – b2 + (u12  u 22 )t 2 – 2t (au1 + bu2)]1/2
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20. A body is moving with constant acceleration from A to B in a straight line. C is the mid-point of AB. If
u and v are the speeds at A and B respectively. The speed at C is: (KVPY/SA/2007)
uv v–u 2 2 2 2
(A) (B) (C) u  v (D) v – u
2 2 2 2

21. According to the quantum theory, a photon of electromagnetic radiation of frequency v has energy
E = hv where h is known as planck’s constant. According to the theory of relativity, a particle of
mass m has equivalent energy E = mc2, where c is speed of light. Thus a photon can be treated as a
hv
particle having effective mass m = 2 . If a flash of light is sent horizontally in earth’s gravitational
c
field, then photons while traveling a horizontal distance d would fall through a distance given by:
(KVPY/SA/2008)
2
2 h mcd
(A) gd (B) (C) (D) zero
2c 2 mc h

22. A juggler tosses a ball up in the air with initial speed u. At the instant it reaches its maximum height
H, he tosses up a second ball with the same initial speed. The two balls will collide at a height.
(KVPY/SA/2011)
H H 3H 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) H
4 2 4 4

23. The accompanying graph of position x versus time t represents the motion of a particle. If p and q
are both positive constants, the expression that best describes the acceleration  of the particle is
(KVPY/SA/2013)

(A) a = – p – qt (B) a = –p + qt (C) a = p + qt (D) a = p – qt

24. Two stones of mass m1 and m2 (such that m1 > m2) are dropped t time apart from the same height
towards the ground. At a later time t the difference in their speed is V and their mutual separation is
S. While both stones are in flight. (KVPY/SA/2013)
(A) V decreases with time and S increases with time
(B) Both V and S increase with time
(C) V remains constant with time and S decreases with time
(D) V remains constant with time and S increases with time

25. In the following displacement (x) vs time (t) graph, at which among the points P,Q, and R is the
object's speed increasing? (KVPY/SA/2014)
x

P
Q
(0,0) t
R

(A) R only (B) P only (C) Q and R only (D) P,Q,R

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26. If a body loses half of its velocity on penetrating 3 cm in a wooden block, then how much will it
penetrate more before coming to rest? [AIEEE - 2002, 4/300]
(A) 1 cm (B) 2 cm (C) 3 cm (D) 4 cm

27. From a building two balls A and B are thrown such that A is thrown upwards and B downwards (both
vertically with same speed). If VA and VB are their respective velocities on reaching the ground, then
[AIEEE - 2002, 4/300]
(A) vB> vA (B) vA =vB
(C) vA> vB (D) their velocities depends on their masses

28. Speeds of two identical cars are u and 4u at a specific instant. The ratio of the respective distances
at which the two cars are stopped at the same instant is : [AIEEE - 2002, 4/300]
(A) 1 : 1 (B) 1 : 4 (C) 1 : 8 (D) 1 : 16

29. A car moving with a speed of 50 km/hr, can be stopped by brakes after at least 6 m. if the same car
is moving at a speed of 100 km/hr, the minimum stopping distance is : [AIEEE - 2003, 4/300]
(A) 12 m (B) 18 m (C) 24 m (D) 6 m

30. A ball is released from the top of a tower of height h metres. It takes T seconds to reach the ground.
What is the position of the ball in T/3 seconds? [AIEEE - 2004, 4/300]
(A) h/9 metre from the ground (B) 7h/9 metre from the ground
(C) 8h/9 metre from the ground (D) 17h/9 metre from the ground

31. An automobile travelling with a speed of 60 km/h, can brake to stop within a distance of 20 m. If the
car is going twice as fast, ie. 120 km/h, the stopping distance will be : [AIEEE - 2004, 4/300]
(A) 20 m (B) 40 m (C) 60 m (D) 80 m

32. A car, starting from rest, accelerates at the rate f through a distance S, then continues at constant
f
speed for time t and then decelerates at the rate to come to rest. If the total distance travelled is
2
15 S, then: [AIEEE 2005, 4/300]
1 2 1 2 1 2
(A) S = ft (B) S = ft (C) S = ft (D) S = ft
6 72 4
33. A particle is moving eastwards with a velocity of 5 ms–1. In 10 second the velocity changes to 5 ms–1
northwards. The average acceleration in this time is : [AIEEE 2005, 4/300]

1 1
(A) ms–1 towards north-west (B) ms–2 towards north
2 2
1
(C) zero (D) ms–2 towards north-west.
2
34. From a tower of height H, a particle is thrown vertically upwards with a speed u. The time taken by
the particle, to hit the ground, is n times that taken by it to reach the highest point of its path :
The relation between H, u and n is : [JEE (Main)-2014]
(A) 2 g H = n2u2 (B) g H = (n – 2)2u2 (C) 2 g H = nu2(n – 2) (D) g H =(n – 2)u2

35. A block is moving down a smooth inclined plane starting from rest at time t = 0. Let Sn be the
Sn
distance travelled by the block in the interval t = n–1 to t =n. The ratio is:[JEE (Scr.), 2004,3]
Sn1
2n  1 2n  1 2n  1 2n
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2n 2n  1 2n  1 2n  1
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36. The velocity displacement graph of a particle moving along a straight line is shown. The most
suitable acceleration-displacement graph will be : [JEE Scr. 2005; 3]

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

37. A particle experiences constant acceleration for 20 s after starting from rest. If it travels a distance
S1 in the first 10 s and distance S2 in the next 10 s, the relation between S1 and S2 is :
(IJSO Stage-I/2019)
(A) S2 = 3S1 (B) S1 = 3S2 (C) S2 = 2S1 (D) S1 = 10S2

Que. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Ans. A A ABD A D B C B A C C D D A D
Que. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Ans. B C B A C A C D D A A B B C C
Que. 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
Ans. D C A C B B A