ASSIGNMENT ( EQUATIONS OF MOTION AND GRAPHS)

1. A particle starts from rest with an acceleration 2ms 2 , then calculate

(a) Displacement of the particle in 4s ?
(b) Distance travelled by particle in 4s ?
(c) The velocity of the particle at t 2s ?
(d) The displacement of the particle in
4th second is ?
2. A particle starts with velocity 5ms 1 and is
retarded with 2ms 2 , then
(a) Find time at which velocity is zero ?
(b) Find displacement in 1s ?
3. A car starts from rest and moves in a

v At Bt 2 , where A and B are constants,

then the distance travelled by it between 1s
and 2s is ?

8. A particle moving rectilinearly with constant acceleration is having initial velocity

of 10m / s . After some time the velocity
becomes 30m / s .Find out the velocity of
the particle at the mid-point of its path ?
9. For a particle moving along x-axis, velocity-time graph is as shown in figure. Find
the distance travelled and displacement of
the particle ?

straight line with constant acceleration a 0 .

After time t 0 , brakes is applied which
cause deceleration of magnitude as initial
acceleration. The distance travelled by the
car is ?

4. If a body losses half of its velocity on

penetrating 3 cm in a wooden block, then
how much will it penetrate more before
coming to rest?
5. Speed 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 from that instant is ?
6. A particle of mass m is initially situated at
point P inside a hemispherical surface of
radius r as shown in figure. A horizontal
acceleration of magnitude a 0 is suddenly
produced on a particle in the horizontal
direction. If gravitational acceleration is
neglected, then the time taken by the
particle to touch the sphere again ?
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10. The variation of velocity of particle moving moving along a straight line is shown
in figure. The distance travelled by the
body in 4s is:

11. Two cars start from a point at the same

time in a straight line and their position are
represented by x p (t) at bt 2 and

x Q (t) ft t 2 .At what time do the cars

have the same velocity ?

12. A particle starts from rest.Its acceleration

(a) versus time(t) is as shown in figure. The
maximum speed of the particle will be ?

7. If the velocity of the particle is given by

13. The given graph show the variation of

Velocity with displacement. Plot the corresponding a-x graph?

v

19. An object starts from rest with a constant

acceleration of 8 m s 2 along a straight line.

Find (a) The speed at the end of 5s (b) the
average speed for the 5s interval (c) The
distance travelled in the first 5s ?

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20. A train starts from rest and moves with a

constant acceleration of 2 m s 2 for half a

minute. The brakes are then applied and the
train comes to rest in one minute. Find (a)
the total distance moved by the train. (b)
the maximum speed attained by the train
(c) the position of the train at half the
maximum speed ?

x
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14. A drunkard takes a step of 1m in 1s. He
takes 5 steps forward and 3 steps backward, and so on. The time taken by him to
fall in a pit 13m away from the starts is?

15. A point moves with uniform acceleration

and v1 , v 2 and v 3 denote the average velocities in the three successive intervals of
time t1 , t 2 and t 3 .Which of the following
relations is correct ?

(a) v1 v 2 : v 2 v3 t1 t 2 : t 2 t 3

(b) v1 v 2 : v 2 v3 t1 t 2 : t 2 t 3
(c) v1 v 2 : v 2 v3 t1 t 2 : t 2 t 3
(d) v1 v 2 : v 2 v3 t1 t 2 : t1 t 3

16. A body starts from rest with a uniform

acceleration of 2 m s 2 for 10s, it moves

with constant speed for 30s, then deceler-

ates by 4 m s 2 to zero. What is the distance

covered by the body ?? (AIIMS 2002)
17. A lift performs first part of ascent with
uniform acceleration a and the remainder
with uniform retardation 2a. If t is the time
of ascent, find the depth of the shaft ?
18. Acceleration-time graph shown below for a
particle in rectilinear moition.The average
acceleration in first twenty seconds is

40
10

20

30

21. A particle starts from rest with unifrom

acceleration a.Its velocity after n seconds is
v. The displacement of the particle in the
last two seconds is ?
ANSWER KEY
1. (a) 16m ,(b) 16m ,(c) 4ms 1 ,(d) 7m
2. (a) 2.5s , (b) 4m,
3. a 0 t 02 , 4. 1cm, 5. 1:16 ,6.
7.

4r cos
a0

3A 7B

, 8. 10 5ms 1 , 9. 42m, 22m,

2
3

f a
10. 55m , 11. 2 1 b , 12. 55ms 1 ,

13. a

at 2
14. 37s , 15. b, 16. 750m, 17.
,
3

18. 30ms 2 , 19. (a) 40 m s , (b) 20 m s , (c)

100m
20. (a) 2700m , (b) 60 m s (c) 225m &2.25km
21.

2v n 1
n