Quiz

(Single Correct Answer Type)

This section contains 30 multiple choice question. Each question has four choices (A), (B), (C) and (D)
out of which ONLY ONE is correct.
1. Displacement (x) of a particle is related to time (t) as:
x = at + bt2 ct3
where a, b and c are constants of the motion. The velocity of the particle when its
acceleration is zero is given by:
b2 b2 b2 b2
(A) a (B) a (C) a (D) a
c 2c 3c 4c

2. The deceleration experienced by a moving motor boat, after its engine is cut-off is given
dv
by: kv3 , where k is constant. If v0 is the magnitude of the velocity at cut-off, the
dt
magnitude of the velocity at a time t after the cut-off is:
v0
(A) v0 / 2 (B) v 0 (C) v0 e k t (D)

2v02 kt 1
3. P is the point of contact of a wheel and the ground. The radius of the wheel is 1 m. The
wheel rolls on the ground without slipping. The displacement of point P when the wheel
completes half rotation is:
(A) 2 m (B) 2 4 m (C) m (D) 2 2 m

4. A body of mass 1 kg crosses a point O with a velocity of 60 ms-1. A force of 10 N

directed towards O begins to act on it. It will again cross O in:
(A) 24 sec (B) 12 sec
(C) 6 sec (D) will never return to O

5.
A particle is moving with velocity v k yi x j , where k is a constant. The general equation
for its path is:
(A) y = x2 + constant (B) y2 = x + constant
(C) xy = constant (D) y2 = x2 + constant

dv
6. 2.5 v.
An object moving with a speed of 6.25 ms-1, is decelerated at a rate given by:
dt
Where v is the instantaneous speed. The time taken by the object, to come to rest,
would be :
(A) 1 s (B) 2 s (C) 4 s (D) 8 s

7. A ball is projected upwards from the top of a tower with a velocity of 50 ms-1 making an
angle of 30 with the horizontal. The height of the tower is 70 m. After how many
seconds from the instant of throwing will the ball reach the ground?
(A) 2 s (B) 5 sec (C) 7 sec (D) 9 sec

8. Time taken by the projectile to reach from A to B is t. Then the distance AB is equal to :

ut 3ut
(A) (B) (C) 3 ut (D) 2 ut
3 2
9. The trajectory of a projectile in a vertical plane is y = ax bx2, where a and b are
constants and x and y are respectively horizontal and vertical distances of the projectile
from the point of projection. The maximum height attained by the particle and the angle
of projection from the horizontal are:
b2 a2
(A) , tan 1 (b) (B) , tan 1 (2a)
2a b
a2 2a 2
(C) , tan 1 (a) (D) , tan 1 (a)
4b b

10. A particle of mass m is describing a circular path of radius r with uniform speed. If L is
the angular momentum of the particle about the axis of the circle, the kinetic energy of
the particle is given by:
(A) L2/mr2 (B) L2/2mr2 (C) 2L2/mr2 (D) mr2L

11. A particle moving along the circular path with a speed v and its speed increases by g in
one second. If the radius of the circular path be r, then the net acceleration of the particle
is:
v2 v2
(A) g (B) 2 g 2
r r
1/2 1/2
v4 v2
(C) 2 g 2 (D) g
r r

12. A mass m slides from rest down the surface of a frictionless hemispherical bowl of radius
r from the highest point A. The velocity of mass when it reaches the bottom is:

(A) 2gr (B) mgr (C) 2mgr (D) gr

13. A point P moves in counter clockwise direction on a circular path as shown in the adjoining figure.
The movement of P is such that it sweeps out a length s = t3 + 5, where s is in metre and t is in
second. The radius of the path is 20 m. The acceleration of P when t = 2s is nearly:

(A) 13m / s2 (B) 12m / s2 (C) 7.2m / s2 (D) 14m / s2

14. A person moves 30 meters north, then 20 meters east, then 30 2 meters south-west. His
displacement from the original position is:
(A) 14 meters (towards south-west) (B) 28 meters (towards south)
(C) 10 meters (towards west) (D) 15 meters (towards east)

15. Two forces each numerically equal to 10 dynes are acting as shown in the adjoining
figure, then the resultant is:
 (A) 10 dynes (B) 20 dynes (C) 10 3 dynes (D) 5 dynes

16. What is the component of 3i 4 j along i j ?

1 3 5 7
(A) (i j ) (B) (i j ) (C) (i j ) (D) (i j )
2 2 2 2

17. 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 ball in T/3 seconds?
(A) h/9 metres from the ground (B) 7h/9 metres from the ground
(C) 8h/9 metres from the ground (D) 17h/18 metres from the ground

18. The velocity-time relation of an electron starting from rest is given by v = kt, where k =
2m/s2. The distance traversed in 3 sec is:
(A) 9 m (B) 16 m (C) 27 m (D) 36 m

19. A car moving with a speed of 40 km/hr can be stopped by applying brakes after at least
2 m. If the same car is moving with a speed of 80 km/h, what is the minimum stopping
distance?
(A) 2 m (B) 4 m (C) 6 m (D) 8 m

20. An elevator in which a man is standing is moving upwards with a speed of 10 m/sec. If
the man drops a coin from a height of 2.45 metre, it reaches the floor of the elevator

after a time: g 9.8 m / sec 2
1 1
(A) 2s (B) s (C) 2 s (D) s
2 2

21. The acceleration a (in ms-2) of a body, starting from rest varies with time t (in s) following
the equation a = 3t + 4. The velocity of the body at time t = 2s will be
(A) 10 ms-1 (B) 18 ms-1 (C) 14 ms-1 (D) 26 ms-1

22. A particle is projected with velocity v0 along x-axis. The deceleration on the particle is
proportional to the square of the distance from the origin, i.e., a x . The distance at
2

which the particle stop is:

1 1
3v 0 3v 3 2v02 3v 2 3
(A) (B) 0 (C) (D) 0
2 2 3 2

23. A thief is running away on a straight road in a jeep moving with a speed of 9 ms -1. A
policeman chases him on a motor cycle moving at a speed of 10 ms-1. If the
instantaneous separation of the jeep from the motor cycle is 100 m, how long will it take
for the policeman to catch the theif?
(A) 1 s (B) 19 s (C) 90 s (D) 100 s
24. Which statement can be impossible case in one/two dimensional motion?
(A) A body has zero velocity and still be accelerating.
(B) The velocity of an object reverses direction when acceleration is constant.
(C) An object be increasing in speed as it acceleration decreases.
(D) None of the above.

25. A particle is moving on a straight line path with constant acceleration directed along the
direction of instantaneous velocity. Choose the correct statement from the following.
(A) Particle may reverse the direction of the motion.
(B) Distance covered = magnitude of displacement
(C) Average velocity < average speed
(D) Average velocity = instantaneous velocity

26. The displacement of a body along x-axis depends on time as x t 1. Then the
velocity of body:
(A) increases with time (B) decreases with time
(C) independent with time (D) none of these

27. An express train is moving with velocity v1 , meanwhile the driver of this train comes to
know that an another train is also moving ahead on the same track. To avoid collision
the driver applies retardation a. Then what will be the minimum time to avoid collision?
v v2 v 2 v 22 1 v v
(A) t 1 (B) t 1 (C) t 2 1 (D) none of these
a 2 2 a

28. Two particle start moving from the same point along the same straight line. The first
moves with constant velocity v and the second with constant acceleration a. During the
time that ellipses before the second catches the first, the greatest distance between the
particles is:
v2 v2 2v 2 v2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
a 2a a 4a

29. Rain water is falling vertically downwards with a velocity v . When the velocity of the wind
is zero, water is collected at a rate R. When the wind starts blowing horizontally at a
speed u, the rate of collection of water in the same vessel is:
v uR
(A) u 2 v 2 R (B) R (C) (D) R
u v

30. Starting from the rest, a particle rotates in a circle of radius R 2m with an angular
acceleration ( / 4) rad / s 2 . The magnitude of average velocity of the particle over the
time it rotates quarter circle is:
(A) 1.5 m/s (B) 2 m/s (C) 1 m/s (D) 1.25 m/s
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ANSWERS
PHYSICS
1. B 2. D 3. B 4. B 5. D
6. B 7. D 8. A 9. C 10. B
11. B 12. A 13. D 14. C 15. A
16. D 17. C 18. A 19. D 20. B
21. C 22. B 23. D 24. D 25. B
26. A 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. C