CHAPTER 8 MOTION

Multiple choice questions

1) Rate of change of displacement is called

a) speed b) velocity
c) acceleration d) deceleration
2) Acceleration is a vector quantity, which indicates that its value
a) Can be positive, negative or zero b) Is always positive
c) Is always negative d) is zero
3) A man travels a distance of 20 km from his home to office, and 10 km towards his house
back. Then the displacement covered by the man in the whole trip is
a) 30 km b) 10 km
c) 0 km d) 50 km
4) An object travels 20m in 5 sec and then another 40m in 5 sec. What is the
average speed of the object?
a) 12 m/s b) 2 m/s
c) 6 m/s d) 0 m/s
5) Formula to find the average velocity of a body is given by
a) V = U + at b) S = Ut + ½ at2
𝜈 +𝑣
c) Sn = U + a/2 (2n – 1 ) d) 𝑣𝑎𝑣𝑔 = 1 2 2
6) An example of a body moving with constant speed but still accelerating
is
a) A body moving with constant speed in a circular path
b) A body moving with con speed in a circular path
c) A body moving with helical path with constant speed
d) A body moving with constant speed on a straight railway track
7) Distance covered by a body from velocity-time graph is
a) Area under the graph b) ERqual to the slope of the graph
c) Is denoted by a parallel to the time axis at any point on the distance axis
d) Is denoted by a line parallel to the distance axis at any point on time axis

Answer from the above graph

8) From the above graph the body is moving with
a) variable acceleration b) zero acceleration
c) constant acceleration d) zero velocity
9) Distance covered by the body during time interval from 10 sec to 20 sec
is
a) 200 m b) 270 m
c) 360 m d) 400 m
10) At the point A the body is at a distance of
a) 180 m b) 200 m
c) 300 m d) 50 m
11) The velocity of the body at point B is
a) 40 m/s b) 50 m/s
c) 36 m/s d) 20 m/s
12) In the total journey, the body has travelled up to a distance of
a) 1000 m b) 900 m
c) 800 m d) 270 m
13) What does the slope of distance – time graph give?
a) speed b) uniform speed
c)acceleration d) both a & c depending upon then time of
graph
14) A person travels distance πR along the circumference of a circle of radius R. the
displacement of the person is
a) R b) 2R
c) 2πR d) zero
15) The velocity of an object is directly proportional to the time elapsed. The
object has
a) uniform speed b) uniform velocity
c) uniform acceleration d) variable acceleration
16) In which of he following cases the object does not possess an acceleration
or retardation when it moves in
a) upward direction with decreasing speed
b) downward direction with increasing speed
c) with constant speed along circular path
d) with constant speed along horizontal path
17) A train moving with a uniform speed of 54 kmph. What is its speed in m/s?
(a) 15 m/s (b) 1.5 m/s (c) 9 m/s (d) 90 m/s
18) A scalar quantity has ?
(a) magnitude only (b) direction only
(c) both direction and magnitude (d) none of these
19) When an object undergoes acceleration
(a) there is always an increase in its velocity (b) there is always an increase in its speed
(c) a force always acting on it (d) all of the above.
20) A truck covers 40 km with an average speed of 80km/h. Then it travels another 40 km with
an average speed of 40 km/h. The average speed of the truck for the total distanced covered
is:
a) 40 km/h (b) 45km/h (c) 48km/h (d) 53km/h
21) A car starts from city A and it travels 50 km in a straight line to city B. Immediately it turns
around, and returns to city A. It took 2 hours for this round trip. The average speed of the car
for this round trip is:
(a) 0 km/h (b) 25 km/h (c) 50 km/h (d) 100 km/h
22) The equation v = u + at gives information as
(a) velocity is a function of time. (b) velocity is a function of position.
(c) Position is a function of time. (d) Position is function of velocity and time.
23) Which of the following can determine the acceleration of a moving object?
(a) area of velocity-time graph (b) slope of velocity-time graph
(c) area of distance-time graph (d) slope of the distance time-graph
24) A body is projected up with an initial velocity u m/s. It goes up to a height h metres in t
seconds time. Then it comes back at the point of projection. Considering negligible air
resistance, which of the following statement is true?
(a) the acceleration is zero (b) the displacement is zero
(c) the average velocity is 2h/t (d) the final velocity is 2u when body reaches
projection point.
25) A car accelerates at 1.5 m/s2 in a straight road. How much is the increase in velocity in 4s?
(a) 6 m/s (b) 4 m/s (c) 3 m/s (d) 2.66 m/s
1) (a) Identify the kind of motion in the following cases:
(i) A car moving with constant speed turning around a curve.
(ii) An electron orbiting around nucleus.
(b) An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 36,000 km. Calculate its speed if
it takes 24 hours to revolve around the earth.
2) (a)Define average speed.
(b) A bus travels a distance of 120 km with a speed of 40 km/h and returns with a speed of 30
km/h. Calculate the average speed for the entire journey.
3) Define uniform and non-uniform motion. Write one example for each.
4) What does the odometer of an automobile measure? Which of the following is moving faster?
Justify your answer.
(i) A scooter moving with a speed of 300 m per I minute.
(ii) A car moving with a speed of 36 km per hour.
5) A car travels from stop A to stop B with a speed of 30 km/h and then returns back to A with a
speed of 50 km/h. Find
(i) displacement of the car.
(ii) distance travelled by the car.
(iii) average speed of the car.
6) Velocity-time graph for the motion of an object in a straight path is a straight line parallel to
the time axis.
(a) Identify the nature of motion of the body.
(b) Find the acceleration of the body.
(c) Draw the shape of distance-time graph for this type of motion.
7) Draw the shape of the distance-time graph for uniform and non-uniform motion of object. A
bus of starting from rest moves with uniform acceleration of 0.1 ms–2 for 2 minutes. Find
(a) the speed acquired.
(b) the distance travelled.
8) (a)Define uniform acceleration. What is the acceleration of a body moving with uniform
velocity?
(b) A particle moves over three quarters of a circle of radius r. What is the magnitude of its
displacement?
9) A bus accelerates uniformly from 54 km/h to 72 km/h in 10 seconds Calculate
(i) acceleration in m/s2
(ii) distance covered by the bus in metres during this interval.
10) A car moves with a speed of 30 km/h–1 for half an hour, 25 km/h–1 for one hour and 40 km/h–
1 for two hours. Calculate the average speed of the car.

11) Derive the equation for velocity-time relation (v = u + at) by graphical method.
12) A car is travelling at 20 km/h, it speeds up to 60 km/h in 6 seconds. What is its acceleration?
13) A car accelerates from 6 ms–1 16 ms–1 in 10 sec. Calculate
(a) the acceleration and
(b) the distance covered by the car in that time.
14) A circular track has a circumference of 3140 m with AB as one of its diameter. A scooterist
moves from A to B alone the circular path with a uniform speed of 10 m/s. Find
(a) distance covered by the scooterist,
(b) displacement of the scooterist, and
(c) time taken by the scooterist in reaching from A to B.
15) (a)Differentiate between uniform linear and uniform circular motion.
(b) Write any four examples of uniform circular motion.
(c) Is uniform circular motion accelerated motion?
16) (a)Differentiate between speed and velocity.
(b) When is a body said to have uniform velocity?
(c) How can we describe the position of an object?
Illustrate with suitable example.
17) The graph given alongside shows how the speed of a car changes with time.
(i) What is the initial speed of the car?
(ii) What is the maximum speed attained by the car?
(iii) Which part of the graph shows zero acceleration?
(iv) Which part of the graph shows varying retardation?
(v) Find the distance travelled in first 8 hours.

18) Study the velocity-time graph and calculate.

(a) The acceleration from A to B

(b) The acceleration from B to C
(c) The distance covered in the region ABE
(d) The average velocity from C to D
(e) The distance covered in the region BCFE
19) The following table gives the data about motion of a car.
Time (h) 11.00 11.30 12.00 12.30 1.00

Distance (km) 0 30 30 65 100

Plot the graph.
(i) Find the speed of the car between 12.00 hours and 12.30 hours.
(ii) What is the average speed of the car?
(iii) Is the car’s motion an example of uniform motion? Justify.
20) (a)Derive the equation of motion v = u +at, using graphical method.
(b) A train starting from rest attains a velocity of 72 km/h in 5 minutes. Assuming the
acceleration is uniform, find
(i) the acceleration.
(ii) the distance travelled by the train for attaining this velocity