MAHARAJA SAWAI BHAWANI SINGH SCHOOL, JAIPUR

Class-IX/Science/Ch.7/Motion
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SECTION A – Multiple Choice Questions / Assertion and Reason based questions (1 mark each)

1. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

(a) Path length is a scalar quantity whereas displacement is a vector quantity.
(b) The magnitude of displacement is always equal to the path length traversed by an
object over a given time interval.
(c) The displacement depends only on the end points whereas path length depends on the
actual path followed.
(d) The path length is always positive whereas displacement can be positive, negative and
zero.

2. Which of the following changes when a particle is moving with uniform velocity?
(a) Position (b) Speed (c) Velocity (d) Acceleration

3. An object moving with a speed of 6.25 m/s, is decelerated at a rate given by -2.5 v
where v is the instantaneous speed. The time taken by the object, to come to rest, would
be
(a) 1s (b) 2s (c) 4s (d) 8s

4. A bullet fired into a fixed target loses half of its velocity after penetrating 3 cm. How
much further will it penetrate before coming to rest assuming that it faces constant
resistance in motion?
(a) 1.5 cm (b) 1.0 cm (c) 3.0 cm (d) 2.0 cm

ASSERTION AND REASON BASED QUESTIONS

Following questions consist of two statements- Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Answer these
questions selecting the appropriate option as given below:

(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

(b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true and R is false.
(d) A is false and R is true.

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5. Assertion (A): A body can have acceleration even if its velocity is zero at that instant of
time.
Reason (R): The body will be momentarily at rest when it reverses its direction of
motion.

6. Assertion (A): A body can have constant speed and still have a varying velocity.
Reason (R): Velocity is defined as speed with direction.

7. Assertion (A): The speedometer of an automobile measures the average speed of the
automobile.
Reason (R): Average velocity is equal to total displacement divided by total time
taken.

8. Assertion (A): A body with a constant velocity can still have a varying speed.
Reason (R): Velocity is a vector quantity whereas speed is a scalar quantity.

SECTION B – Very Short Answer Type Questions (2 marks each)

9. An electron travelling with a speed of 5 ×103m/s passes through an electric field with an
acceleration of 1012m/s2. (i) How long will it take for the electron to double its speed? (ii)
What will be the distance covered by the electron in this time?
10. A jet plane starts from rest with an acceleration of 3 m/s2 and makes a run for 35 s before
taking off. What is the minimum length of the runway and what is the velocity of the jet
at take off?
11. A driver takes 0.20 s to apply the brakes after he sees a need for it. This is called the
reaction time of the driver. If he is driving car at a speed of 54 km/hr and the brakes cause
a deceleration of 6 m/s2, find the distance travelled by the car after he sees the need to put
the brakes.
12. On a stormy day, two car drivers spot each other when they are just 60 metres apart. They
are driving at 63 km/hr and 54 km/hr respectively. Immediately, they apply brakes to
retard their cars at the rate of 5 m/s2. Find out whether they avert collision or not.
13. How will the equations of motion for an object moving with a uniform velocity change?
14. An object starting from rest travels 20 m in first 2s and 160 m in next 4s. What will be its
velocity after 7s from the start?

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SECTION C – Short Answer Type Questions (3 marks each)

15. A train moves with a speed of 30 km/hr in the first 15 minutes, with another speed of 40
km/hr the next 15 minutes, and then with a speed of 60 km/hr in the last 30 minutes.
Calculate the average speed of the train for this journey.

16. A girl walks along a straight path to drop a letter in the letterbox and comes back to her
initial position. Her displacement-time graph is shown. Plot a velocity-time graph for the
same.

17. The velocity-time graph shows the motion of a cyclist. Find (i) its acceleration (ii) its
velocity and (iii) the distance covered by the cyclist in 15 seconds.

SECTION D – Long Answer Type Questions (5 marks each)

18. Find the odd one out from the following groups.
(i) Distance, displacement, velocity, acceleration
(ii) Distance, displacement, speed, time
(iii) A rider moving around a circular track with uniform speed, earth moving around
the sun, electron moving around a nucleus, a rider moving around a circular track
with non-uniform speed.

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 (iv) Slope of a distance time graph, area under an acceleration-time graph,
measurement of a speedometer, measurement of an odometer.
(v) Metre, Metre/Second, Metre/Second Square, Time
(d

19. Match the following rewrite the correct matches:

Positive A ball thrown vertically upwards
Straight line parallel to time axis in Magnitude of displacement
velocity-time graph
Negative A body falling from a height towards the
surface of the earth
Straight line parallel to time axis in Body in uniform motion
position-time graph
Uniform acceleration The change in velocity in equal intervals
of time is not the same
Straight line parallel to position axis in Body having uniform acceleration
position-time graph
Non-uniform A ball rolling down on an inclined plane
0
Straight line inclined to 45 with time 10m/s
axis in velocity-time graph
Length of shortest path Not possible
36 kmph Body at rest

SECTION E – Case study based / source-based question (4 marks)

20. Motion of a speed bowler.

Bowling fast is a skill, and to be effective at that speed takes talent and a lot of
practice. Pace bowlers, also known as speed guns or pace spearheads, bring more
excitement in the sport with their outrageous pace and accuracy.

Former Pakistani right-arm fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar "Rawalpindi Express" is

widely regarded as the all-time fastest bowler in cricket history. He bowled the fastest
ball ever recorded in international cricket at a speed of 161.3 km/h (100.2 mph)
against England in the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Over the years, the likes of Waqar
Younis, Brett Lee, Allan Donald, and Shaun Tait have taken the batters by surprise
with speed and accuracy throughout their career. Australia’s Mitchell Starc, New
Zealand’s Lockie Ferguson, South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada, and England’s Jofra
Archer are few of the fast bowlers who trouble the batter with express speed in world
cricket at the moment.

(i) To describe the position of an object, we need to specify a reference point

called the

(a) point object (b) axis (c) graph (d) origin

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(ii) Two cars X and Y are travelling along a along a straight road. The two cars
are said to be in uniform motion when

(a) they continuously travel along the straight road

(b) the speed of the cars reduces with same rate
(c) the two cars travel with same speed
(d) the two cars travels equal distance in equal interval of time.
(iii) Retardation of a body is expressed in
(a) m (b) m/s (c) –m/s2 (d) m/s2
(iv) If the displacement time graph of a particle is parallel to the time axis, the
velocity of the particle is

(a) unity (b) infinity (c) zero (d) none of these

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