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STUDENT QUESTION BANK
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KINEMATICS-2D
A. General 2-D motion
1. A point moves in x–y plane according to the law x = 4sin6t and y = 4(1 – cos6t). The distance
traversed by the particle in 4 seconds is (x and y are in metres)
(A) 96 m (B) 48 m (C) 24 m (D) 108 m

2. A particle is moving in x-y plane. At certain instant, the components of its velocity and
acceleration are as follows ; Vx = 3m/s, Vy = 4m/s, ax = 2 m/s2 and ay = 1 m/s2. The rate of change

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of speed at this moment is :-

(A) 10 m / s2 (B) 4 m/s2 (C) 10 m/s2 (D) 2 m/s2


3. An object is moving in the yz plane with position, given by r= yjˆ + zkˆ . The distance of object
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from origin is definitely increasing when
(A) vy > 0, vz > 0 (B) vy < 0, vz < 0 (C) zvy + yvz > 0 (D) yvy + zvz > 0
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4. A particle is moving with a position vector,
= r a 0 sin(2πt)iˆ + a 0 cos(2πt)ˆj . Then-

(A) Magnitude of displacement of the particle between time t = 4 sec and t = 6 sec is zero
(B) Distance travelled by the particle in 1 sec is 2πa0
(C) The speed of particle in the whole motion is constant and equal to 2πa0.
(D) None of these
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5. r atiˆ − bt 2ˆj , where a and b
Radius vector of a point A relative to the origin varies with time t as =

are positive constants, and î and ĵ are the unit vectors of the x and y axes. Find:
(a) the equation of the point's trajectory y (x);
(b)the time dependence of the velocity v and acceleration w vectors, as well as of the moduli of
these quantities;
(c) the time dependence of the angle α between the vectors w and v;
(d)the mean velocity vector averaged over the first t seconds of motion, and the modulus of this
vector.

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6. A point moves in the plane xy according to the law x = at, y = at (1 – αt), where a and α are
positive constants, and t is time. Find:
(a) the equation of the point's trajectory y (x); plot this function;
(b)the velocity v and the acceleration w of the point as functions of time;

(c) the moment t0 at which the velocity vector forms an angle π/4 with the acceleration vector.

A particle is moving with velocity v = K(y i + x j ), where K is a constant. The general equation
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for its path is : [AIEEE - 2010]
(A) y2 = x2 + constant (B) y = x2 + constant
(C) y2 = x + constant (D) xy = constant

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8. A particle moves along the parabolic path y = ax2 in such a way that the x component of the
velocity remains constant, say c. The acceleration of the particle is

(A) ac k̂ E (B) 2ac2 ĵ (C) ac2 ĵ (D) a2c ĵ

B. Projectile motion
9. A particle is thrown over a triangle from one end of a horizontal base and grazing the vertex falls
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on the other end of the base. If α and β be the base angles and θ the angle of projection prove that
tan θ = tan α + tan β.

10. A man can throw a stone with initial speed of 10 m/s. Find the maximum horizontal distance to
which he can throw the stone in a room of height h for : (i) h = 2 m & (ii) h = 4 m
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11. A man is sitting on the shore of a river. He is in the line of a 2 m long boat and is 11 m away
from the centre of the boat. He wishes to throw a mango into the boat. He can throw the mango

only with a speed of 10 2 m/s. The minimum and maximum angles of projection for successful
shot are θmin and θmax respectively. Assuming that the point of projection and the edge of the boat
θmax
are in the same horizontal level, if the value of is n (where n is an integer), find the value of
θmin

‘n’. (g = 10 m/s2)

12. Find the average velocity of a projectile between the instants it crosses half the maximum height.
It is projected with a speed u at an angle θ with the horizontal.

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13. A vertical pole has a red mark at some height. A stone is projected from a fixed point on the
ground. When projected at an angle of 45º it hits the pole orthogonally 1 m above the mark.
When projected with a different speed at an angle of tan–1(3/4), it hits the pole orthogonally 1.5
m below the mark. Find the speed and angle of projection so that it hits the mark orthogonally to
the pole. [g = 10 m/sec2] [REE '96, 6]

14. The maximum angle with the horizontal at which a stone can be thrown and always be moving
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away from the thrower is sin–1 Find P
P

15. It was calculated that a shell when fired from a gun with a certain velocity and at an angle of
5π
elevation rad should strike a given target in the same horizontal plane. In actual practice, it
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was found that a hill just prevented the trajectory. At what angle of elevation should the gun be
fired to hit the target.

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5π 11π 7π 13π
(A) rad (B) rad (C) rad (D) rad.
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16. A shell bursts on contact with the ground and pieces from it fly in all directions with all velocities
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upto 80 feet per second. Show that a man 100 feet away is in danger for

[Use g = 32 ft/s2].
5
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seconds.
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17. Two balls are thrown with the same speed v0 from the top of a cliff. The angles of their initial
velocities are θ above and below the horizontal, as shown. How much farther along the ground
does the top ball hit than the bottom ball:-

θ
θ
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2v 20 sin 2 θ cos2 θ 2v 20 sin θ

(A) (B)
g g
2v 20 cos θ 2v 20 sin θ cos θ
(C) (D)
g g

18. Shots fired simultaneously from the top and foot of a vertical cliff at elevations of 30º and 60º
respectively, strike an object simultaneously which is at a height of 100 meters from the ground
and at a horizontal distance of 200 3 meters from the cliff. Find the height of the cliff, the
velocities of projection of the shots and the time taken by the shots to hit the object.
(g = 10 m/sec2.) [REE-2000; 5/100]

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19. A stone is projected from the point on the ground in such a direction so as to hit a bird on the top
of a telegraph post of height h and then attain the maximum height 2 h above the ground. If at the
instant of projection, the bird were to fly away horizontally with a uniform speed, find the ratio
between the horizontal velocities of the bird and the stone, if the stone still hits the bird while
descending. [JEE]

20. An object A is kept fixed at the point x = 3 m and y = 1.25 m on a plank P raised above the
ground. At time t = 0 the plank starts moving along the + x direction with an acceleration 1.5 m/s2.
At the same instant a stone is projected from the origin with a velocity u as shown. A stationary
person on the ground observes the stone hitting the object during its downward motion at an
angle of 45° to the horizontal. All the motions are in x-y plane. Find u and the time after which
the stone hits the object. Take g = 10 m/s2. [JEE 2000]

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A projectile is thrown with velocity of 50 m/s towards an inclined plane from ground such that it
strikes the inclined plane perpendicularly. The angle of projection of the projectile is 53° with the
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horizontal and the inclined plane is inclined at an angle of 45° to the horizontal.
(i) Find the time of flight.
(ii) Find the distance between the point of projection and the foot of inclined plane.
50 m/s

53° 45°
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22. Ball bearings leave the horizontal through with a velocity of magnitude ‘u’ and fall through the
70mm diameter hole as shown. Calculate the permissible range of ‘u’ which will enable the balls
to enter the hole. Take the dotted positions to represent the limiting conditions.

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23. A particle is thrown horizontally with speed 15 m/s. Find the time at which is strikes to inclined
plane as shown in figure. (g = 10 m/s2)
t=0 u=15m/s

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(A) 2 sec (B) 4 sec (C) 1 sec (D) 10 sec

24. Two inclined planes OA and OB having inclinations 30° and 60° respectively, intersect each
other at O as shown in figure. A particle is projected from point P with velocity u = 10 √3 m/s
along a direction perpendicular to plane OA. If the particle strikes the plane OB perpendicularly
at Q. Calculate

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(i) Time of flight.
(ii) Velocity with which particle strikes the plane OB.
(iii) Vertical height of P from O.
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(iv) Maximum height from O attained by the particle.
(v) Distance PQ.
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P Q
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30° 60°
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Paragraph for Questions 25 and 26

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At t = 0 on the planet "Gravitus Increasicus", a projectile is fired with speed 6 m/s at an angle 30°
above the horizontal. This planet is a strange one, in that the acceleration due to gravity increases
linearly with time, starting with a value of zero when the projectile is fired. In other words,
g(t) = 2t.
25. The time of flight of the projectile is :-

(A) 1 sec (B) 2 sec (C) 3 sec (D) 3 3 sec

26. Range of the projectile is :-
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(A) 9 m (B) m (C) 6 3 m (D) 9 3 m
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27. A ball starts falling with zero initial velocity on a smooth inclined plane forming an angle α with
the horizontal. Having fallen the distance h, the ball rebounds elastically off the inclined plane.
At what distance from the impact point will the ball rebound for the second time?

28. A man is travelling on a flat car which is moving up a plane inclined at cos θ = 4/5 to the
horizontal with a speed 5 m/s. He throws a ball towards a stationary hoop located perpendicular
to the incline in such a way that the ball moves parallel to the slope of the incline while going
through the centre of the hoop. The centre of the hoop is 4 m high from the man's hand calculate
the time taken by the ball to reach the hoop.

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Two parallel straight lines are inclined to the horizontal at an angle α. A particle is projected
from a point mid way between them so as to graze one of the lines and strikes the other at right
angles. Show that if θ is the angle between the direction of projection and either of lines, then
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tan=
θ ( )
2 − 1 cos tα .

30. A particle is projected from ground towards a vertical wall 80 m away at an angle of 37° with
horizontal with initial velocity of 50 m/s. After its collision with wall & then once with ground
find at what distance in meter from wall will it strike the ground. The component of velocity
normal to the surface becomes half after collision with each surface.
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31. A projectile is launched from point ‘A’ with the initial conditions shown in the figure. BC part is
circular with radius 150 m. Determine the ‘x’ and ‘y’ co-ordinates of the point of impact.

C. Relative Motion
32. A person decided to walk on an escalator which is moving at constant rate (speed). When he
moves at the rate 1 step/sec, then he reaches top in 20 steps. Next day he goes 2 steps / sec. and
reaches top in 32 steps. If speed of escalator is n steps / sec, find the value of n.

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33. An elevator car (lift) is moving upward with uniform acceleration of 2 m/s2. At the instant, when
its velocity is 2 m/s upwards a ball is thrown upward from its floor. The ball strikes back the
floor 2 s after its projection. Find the velocity of projection of the ball relative to the lift.
(A) 10 m/s ↑ (B) 10 m/s ↓ (C) 12 m/s ↑ (D) 12 m/s ↓

34. An elevator car whose floor-to-ceiling distance is equal to 2.7 m starts ascending with constant
acceleration 1.2 m/s2 ; 2.0 s after the start a bolt begins falling from the ceiling of the car. Find:
(a) the bolt's free fall time;
(b)the displacement and the distance covered by the bolt during the free fall in the reference
frame fixed to the elevator shaft.

35. A motorboat going downstream overcame a raft at a point A; τ = 60 min later it turned back and
after some time passed the raft at a distance  = 6.0 km from the point A. Find the flow velocity

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assuming the duty of the engine to be constant.

36. A police inspector in a jeep is chasing a pickpocket on a straight road. The jeep is going at its
maximum speed v (assumed uniform). The pickpocket rides on the motorcycle of a waiting
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friend when the jeep is at a distance d away, and the motorcycle starts with a constant
acceleration a. Show that the pickpocket will be caught if v ≥ 2ad .
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Paragraph for Question no. 37 to 39
In an air show a unique exercise was conducted. A large number of gliders [without engine] were
released in a strong horizontal wind that imparts a constant velocity of 5 m/s to the gliders.
Gliders are travelling in a straight line with a constant separation between each glider. One of the
gliders is painted differently and is referred as marker glider. At t = 0, two airplanes were set to
move in opposite directions, one along the wind and other opposite to the wind. Airplane engines
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maintain a constant speed of 10 m/s relative to the wind. Planes started from marker glider. After
10 minutes of flying, both the airplanes were signalled by marker glider to return and meet at its
position. Ignore the length of airplane and gliders in calculation.
Wind
Marker Glider

d=500m

(1) (2)

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37. Mark the incorrect statement.
(A) Both the planes reach the marker glider simultaneously.
(B) Airplane (1) reaches earlier than other plane
(C) For an observer standing on ground, distance traveled by both the airplanes is same
(D) For an observer on marker glider, distance traveled by each airplanes is same

38. Time takes by airplane (1) to return to marker glider after getting signal.
(A) 10 minutes (B) 15 minutes (C) 20 minutes (D) 25 minutes

39. Mark the correct statement

(A) Number of gliders crossed by airplane (1) is 24
(B) Airplane (1) has crossed more gliders than (2) in entire journey.
(C) Airplane (2) has crossed more gliders than (1) in entire journey.

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(D) Number of gliders crossed by airplane 2 is 48

40. A train of length  = 350 m starts moving rectilinearly with constant acceleration

w = 3.0 × 10–2 m/s2 t = 30 s after the start the locomotive headlight is switched on (event 1), and
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τ = 60 s after that event the tail signal light is switched on (event 2). Find the distance between
these events in the reference frames fixed to the train and to the Earth. How and at what constant
velocity v relative to the Earth must a certain reference frame K move for the two events to occur
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in it at the same point?

41. Two particles are projected simultaneously with the same speed V in the same vertical plane with
angles of elevation θ and 2θ, where θ < 45º. If the time at which their velocities be parallel is
v θ  nθ 
cos   cosec   . Find n.
g 2  2 
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42. An armored car 2m long and 3m wide is moving at 20 m/s. A bullet hits it in a direction making
an angle tan–1 (1/2) with x-axis the car as seen from the street. The bullet enters one edge of the
corner and passes out at the diagonally opposite corner. Neglecting any interaction between
bullet and car. It takes t second for the bullet to cross the car then find the value of t × 20
y 2m
vcar 20 m/s

3m

θ
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43. A bow man is riding on a horse moving with speed of 2 2 ms–1 along a straight road. He aims at
his enemy moving perpendicularly to the road at speed of 2 ms–1. At the instant when he fires
the arrow, the line joining man and his enemy makes an angle of 45° with the road. Find the
angle with the road at which he should aim to hit his enemy? Muzzle velocity of arrow is 5ms–1.
(given that sin 37° = 3/5). Neglect effect of gravity.

44. A chariot with an archer is moving with a horizontal velocity v1 = 4ˆj m/s in a war field. An

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enemy soldier having position=r (12iˆ + 16ˆj) m w.r.t. the archer is running with a velocity
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v=
2 ( 3iˆ + 4ˆj) m/s wrt Archer. Archer shoots an arrow with velocity v3 w.r.t. himself that hits
the soldier in 2 seconds. Then v3 is (consider arrow moves in straight line)
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(A) ( 3iˆ + 8jˆ ) m / s (B) ( 9iˆ + 16ˆj) m / s (C) ( 9iˆ + 12ˆj) m / s (D) ( 3iˆ + 5jˆ ) m / s

45. A boy standing on a long railroad car throws a ball straight upwards. The car is moving on the
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horizontal road with an acceleration of 1 m/s2 and the projection velocity in the vertical direction
is 9.8 m/s How far behind the boy will the ball fall on the car ?

46. A person is standing on a truck moving with a constant velocity of 14.7 m/s on a horizontal road.
The man throws a ball in such a way that it returns to the truck after the truck has moved 58.8 m.
Find the speed and the angle of projection [Take : g = 9.8 m/s2]
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(a) as seen from the truck

(b) as seen from the road.

47. A hunter is riding an elephant of height 4 m moving in straight line with uniform velocity of
2 m/s. A deer starts running with uniform velocity from a point 4√5 m away in front of the
elephant along a line perpendicular to velocity of the elephant. If hunter can throw his spear with
a speed of 10 m/s, relative to the elephant, at what angle θ to it’s direction of motion must he
throw his spear horizontally for a successful hit. Also find the speed of the deer.

48. A, B & C are three objects each moving with constant velocity. A's speed is 10 m/sec in a

direction PQ . The velocity of B relative to A is 6 m/s at an angle of, cos–1 (15/24) to PQ. The

velocity of C relative to B is 12 m/s in a direction QP . Find the magnitude of the velocity of C.

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49. Two particles start simultaneously from a point and move along line OP and OQ, one with a
uniform velocity 10 m/s and other from rest with a constant acceleration 5 m/s2 respectively. Line
OP makes an angle 37º with the line OQ. Find the time at which they appear to each other
moving at minimum speed?

50. A 2 m wide truck is moving with a uniform speed of 8 m/s along a straight horizontal road. A
pedestrian starts crossing the road at an instant when the truck is 4 m away from him. The
minimum constant velocity with which he should run to avoid an accident is :-

2m Truck Boy

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(A) 1.6√5 m/s (B) 1.2√5 m/s (C) 1.2√7 m/s (D) 1.6√7 m/s

51. A large heavy box is sliding without friction down a smooth plane of inclination θ. From a point

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P on the bottom of the box, a particle is projected inside the box. The initial speed of the particle
with respect to box is u and the direction of projection makes an angle α with the bottom as
shown in figure. [JEE]
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(i) Find the distance along the bottom of the box between the point of projection P and the point
Q where the particle lands. (Assume that the particle does not hit any other surface of the box.
Neglect air resistance).
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(ii) If the horizontal displacement of the particle as seen by an observer on the ground is zero,
find the speed of the box with respect to the ground at the instant when the particle was
projected.

α
P Q
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52. A ship moves along the equator to the east with velocity v0 = 30 km/hour. The southeastern wind
blows at an angle φ = 60° to the equator with velocity v = 15 km/hour. Find the wind velocity v'
relative to the ship and the angle φ' between the equator and the wind direction in the reference
frame fixed to the ship.

53. Two boats, A and B, move away from a buoy anchored at the middle of a river along the
mutually perpendicular straight lines: the boat A along the river, and the boat B across the river.
Having moved off an equal distance from the buoy the boats returned. Find the ratio of times of
motion of boats τA/τB if the velocity of each boat with respect to water is η = 1.2 times greater
than the stream velocity.

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54. A boat A is sailing due east at 18 km h−1 and a second boat B is sailing on a bearing of 30° at
12 kmh−1. At a certain instant a third boat C appears to an observer on A to be sailing due south
and appears to an observer on B to be sailing on a bearing of 1500. Bearing of the velocity
implies the angle made by velocity with the north direction in the clockwise sense. Find the
speed of the boat C and the bearing on which it is sailing.

55. Two friends A and B are standing a distance x apart in an open field and wind is blowing from A
to B. A beats a drum and B hears the sound t1 time after he sees the event. A and B interchange
their positions and the experiment is repeated. This time B hears the drum t2 time after he sees
the event. Calculate the velocity of sound in still air v and the velocity of wind u. Neglect the
time light takes in travelling between the friends.

56. Suppose A and B in the previous problem change their positions in such a way that the line
joining them becomes perpendicular to the direction of wind while maintaining the separation x.

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What will be the time lag B finds between seeing and hearing the drum beating by A ?

57. A boat moves relative to water with a velocity which is n = 2.0 times less than the river flow
velocity. At what angle to the stream direction must the boat move to minimize drifting?

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A man running on a horizontal road at 8 km/h finds the rain falling vertically. He increases his
speed to 12 kmh and finds that the drops make angle 30° with the vertical. Find the speed and
direction of the rain with respect to the road.
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ANSWER KEY

1. (A) 2. (D) 3. (D) 4. (A,B,C)

5. aiˆ − 2bt ˆj, w =

(a) y = –x2b/a2 ; (b) v = −2b ˆj =
,v a 2 + 4b 2 t 2 , w = 2b;

(c) tan α = a/2bt; (d) < v >= aiˆ − bt ˆj , |< v =

>| a 2 + b2 t 2

6. (a) y = x – x2α/a ; (b) v = a 1 + (1 − 2αt) 2 , w = 2αa = const ; (c) t0 = 1/α

7. (A) 8. (B) 10. (i) 4 6 m, (ii) 10 m 11. 5.00

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12. u cos θ, horizontal in the plane of projection 13. m/s, tan–1   14. (9)
3  10 
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15. (D) 17. (D) 18. 400m, vT = 40 m/s, vf = 40 3 m/s, T = 10 s. 19.

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20. u = 7.29 m/s, t = 1 sec 21. (i) 7 s, (ii) 175 m 22. 1.115 m/s 23. (A)
24. (i) 2 s (ii) 10 m/s (iii) 5m (iv) 16.25 m (v) 20 m 25. (C) 26. (D)

27.

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(C) 34.
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(a) 0.7 s ; (b) 0.7 and 1.3 m respectively 35.

32.

v = 3.0 km per hour

(3)

37. 38.
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(B) (A) 39. (A)
40. x1 – x2 = 0.24 km. Toward the train with velocity V = 4.0 m/s. 41. 3.00 42. (4)
43. 82° 44. (C) 45. (2m) 46. (a) 19.6 m/s upward (b) 24.5 m/s at 53° with horizontal
47. θ = 37°, v = 6 m/s 48. 5 m/s 49. t = 1.6 s 50. (A)

u 2 sin 2α u cos(α + θ)
51. (i) (ii) v = 52. v' ≈ 40 km per hour, φ' = 19°
g cos θ cos θ
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x 1 1  x 1 1 
53. τA/τB = 1.8 54. 12√3 kmh−1, 120° 55. + , −
2  t1 t 2  2  t1 t 2 

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56. 57. θ = 120° 58. 4 7km / h ; α =cot −1
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