DIWALI - ASSIGNMENT PHYSICS
1. A body moves on three quarters of a circle of radius r. Find the displacement and distance travelled
by it.
2. An athlete completes one round of a circular track of radius 2m in 40 sec. Find his distance and
displacement at the end of 2 min. 20 sec.
3. A car travels from Bangalore to Mysore on a road that is 150 km long. If half the distance is covered
at a speed of 60 km/h and the rest at 80 km/h. Find the average speed of the car.
4. A car is moving at a speed of 50 km/h after two seconds it is moving at 60 km/h. calculate the
acceleration of the car.
5. A car attains 54km/h in 20 s after it starts. Find the acceleration of the car.
6. A bullet moving with an initial velocity of 20 m/s strikes a target and comes to rest after penetrating
the target to a distance of 10 cm. Calculate the retardation caused by the target.
7. The brakes applied to a car produce an acceleration of 8 m/s2 in the opposite direction to the motion.
If the car takes 3 seconds to stop after the application of brakes, the distance it travels during the time
will be
8. From the following (V-t) graph find :
(a) Distance and displacement in 10 second.
(b) Distance and displacement in 15 second.
9. The velocity versus time graph of a linear motion is shown in figure. Find the distance from
the origin in 8 second.
10. A particle moves according to given velocity time graph. Then, find the ratio of distance travelled in
last 2 seconds to the total distance travelled ?
11. When is a body said to move with uniform acceleration?
12. Write differences between speed and velocity
13. What do you mean by term acceleration and retardation?
14. Write five difference between distance and displacement
15. Define rest and motion.
16. Give two examples each of balanced and unbalnced forces from our daily lifes.
17. What do you mean by term inertia of rest explain it using an example?
18. State Newton’s first law of motion.
19. A ball of mass 100 g. is moving with a velocity of 15 m/s. Calculate the momentum associated with
the ball.
20. A force of 20N acting on a mass m1 produces an acceleration of 4 ms-2. The same force is applied
on mass m2 then the acceleration produced is 0.5 ms-2. What acceleration would the same force
produce, when both masses are tied together ?
21. The velocity of a body of mass 20kg decreases from 20m/s to 5m/s in a distance of 100m than find
the force on the body.
22. A stone of 1 kg is thrown with a velocity of 20 m s–1 across the frozen surface of a lake and comes
to rest after travelling a distance of 50 m. What is the force of friction between the stone and the ice?
23. What is the momentum of an object of mass m, moving with a velocity v?
24. Hockey ball of mass 200 g travelling at 10 m /s is struck by a hockey stick so as to return it along its
original path with a velocity at 5 m/s. Calculate the change of momentum occurred in the motion
ofthe hockey ball by the force applied by the hockey stick.
25. Define one Newton force and one joule work.
26. State third law of motion. Give two examples in support of this law.
27. Prove the equation (F = ma) where symbols have their usual meaning.
28. Force between two masses is 5N if their masses become doubled and distance between them is
halved, then find new force.
29. Two bodies of masses 1 kg and 2 kg respectively are placed at a separation of 1 m. Find the
gravitational force between the bodies.
30. Consider two bodies A and B. The body B is heavier than A. Which of them is attracted with a
greater force by the earth? Which will fall with a greater acceleration?
31. ge and gp denote the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the earth and another planet whose
mass and radius are twice that of the earth. Then find the relation between acceleration due to gravity
on the surface of the earth and that of planet.
32. The mass of the red planet is 0.1 times of the earth and its radius is ½ that of the earth. compare the
acceleration due to gravity on the earth’s surface to that on the surface of the planet
33. .A particle is taken to a height of 2Re above the earth’s surface, where Re is the radius of the earth. If
it is dropped from this height, what would be is acceleration?
34. The mass of an object is 90 kg. If the mass of Mars is one sixth the mass of the earth, what is the
mass of the object on the moon and why?
35. Write down 5 differences between universal Gravitational constant (G) and Acceleration due to
gravity (g).
36. Write down 5 differences between Mass and Weight.
37. State the universal law of gravitation. And write down properties of gravitational force .
38. A ball thrown up vertically returns to the thrower after 6 s. Find
(a) the velocity with which it was thrown up,
(b) the maximum height it reaches, and
(c) its position after 4 s.
38. Write down 4 factors on which acceleration due to gravity of a planet depends.
39. If the moon attracts the earth, why does the earth not move towards the moon?
40. Gravitational force acts on all objects in proportion to their masses. Why then, a heavy object does
not fall faster than a light object?
