SD Institute, Tambaram

Class 11 CBSE Physics

1. Determine the position vectors for the following particles which are located at points P,
Q, R, S.

2. A person initially at rest starts to walk 2 m towards north, then 1 m towards east, then 5
m towards south and then 3 m towards west. What is the position vector of the person at
the end of the trip?
3. An athlete covers 3 rounds on a circular track of radius 50 m. Calculate the total distance and
displacement travelled by him.
4. Calculate the displacement vector for a particle moving from a point P to Q as shown
below. Calculate the magnitude of displacement.

5. Consider an object travelling in a semicircular path from point O to point P in 5 second,

^ t 2 ^j−5 k^ .
6. The position vector of a particle is given r =2t i+3
a) Calculate the velocity and speed of the particle at any instant t
b) Calculate the velocity and speed of the particle at time t = 2 s
 7. The velocity of three particles A, B, C are given below. Which particle travels at the greatest
speed?
^
v A=3 i−5 ^j+2 k^
^ ^j+3 k^
v B=i+2
^ ^j+ 4 ^k
v C =5 i+3
8. Consider two masses of 10 g and 1 kg moving with the same speed 10 m s −1. Calculate the
magnitude of the momentum.
9. A particle moves along the x-axis in such a way that its coordinates x varies
with time 't' according to the equation x = 2 − 5t + 6t 2. What is the initial velocity
of the particle?
10. Suppose two cars A and B are moving with uniform velocities with respect to ground along
parallel tracks and in the same direction. Let the velocities of A and B be 35 km h −1 due east and
40 km h-1 due east respectively. What is the relative velocity of car B with respect to A?

11. Suppose two trains A and B are moving with uniform velocities along parallel tracks but in
opposite directions. Let the velocity of train A be 40 km h −1 due east and that of train B be 40
km h-1 due west. Calculate the relative velocities of the trains
12. Consider two trains A and B moving along parallel tracks with the same velocity in the same
direction. Let the velocity of each train be 50 km h −1 due east. Calculate the relative velocities of
the trains.
13. How long will a boy sitting near the window of a train traveling at 36 km h −1 see a train passing
by in the opposite direction with a speed of 18 km h −1. The length of the slow moving train is
90m.
14. A swimmer’s speed in the direction of flow of a river is 12 km h −1. Against the direction of flow
of the river the swimmer’s speed is 6 km h −1. Calculate the swimmer’s speed in still water and
the velocity of the river flow.
^ 5t ^j+4 k^ , Find the
15. If the position vector of the particle is given by v=3 t 2 i+
a) The velocity of the particle at t = 3 s
b) Speed of the particle at t = 3 s
c) acceleration of the particle at time t = 3 s
16. An iron ball and a feather are both falling from a height of 10 m.
a) What are the time taken by the iron ball and feather to reach the ground?
b) What are the velocities of iron ball and feather when they reach the ground?
(Ignore air resistance and take g = 10 m s−2)
17. A train was moving at the rate of 54 km h −1 when brakes were applied. It came to rest within a
distance of 225 m. Calculate the retardation produced in the train.
18. A car moving along a straight highway with speed of 126 km h −1 is brought to a stop within a
distance of 200 m. What is the retardation of the car (assumed uniform), and how long does it
take for the car to stop?
19. Two trains A and B of length 400 m each are moving on two parallel tracks with a uniform speed
of 71 km h−1 in the same direction, with A ahead of B. The driver of B decides to overtake A and
accelerates by 1 ms−2. If after 50 s, the guard of B just brushes past the driver of A, what was the
original distance between them?
20. On a two-lane road, car A is travelling with a speed of 36 km h −1. Two cars B and C approach
car A in opposite directions with a speed of 54 km h −1 each. At a certain instant, when the
distance AB is equal to AC, both being 1 km, B decides to overtake A before C does. What
minimum acceleration of car B is required to avoid an accident?
21. Two towns A and B are connected by regular bus service with a bus leaving in either direction
every T minute. A man cycling with a speed of 20 km h −1 in the direction A to B notices that a
bus goes past him every 18 min in the direction of his motion, and every 6 min in the opposite
direction. What is the period T of the bus service and with what speed (assumed constant) do the
buses ply on the road?
22. A player throws a ball upwards with an initial speed of 29.4 ms−1.
(a) What is the direction of acceleration during the upward motion of the ball?
(b) What are the velocity and acceleration of the ball at the highest point of its motion?
(c) Choose the x = 0 m and t = 0 s to be the location and time of the ball at its highest point,
vertically downward direction to be the positive direction of x-axis, and give the signs of
position, velocity and acceleration of the ball during its upward, and downward motion.
(d) To what height does the ball rise and after how long does the ball return to the player’s
hands? (Take g = 9.8 m s−2 and neglect air resistance).
23. A ball is dropped from a height of 90 m on a floor. At each collision with the floor, the ball loses
one tenth of its speed. Plot the speed-time graph of its motion between t =0 to 12 s.
24. A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km away with a speed of 5 km h −1
. Finding the market closed, he instantly turns and walks back home with a speed of 7.5 km h −1
What is the (a)Magnitude of average velocity, and (b)Average speed of the man over the interval
of time (i) 0 to 30 min. (ii) 0 to 50 min. (iii) 0 to 40 min? [Note: You will appreciate from this
exercise why it is better to define average speed as total path length divided by time, and not as
 magnitude of average velocity. You would not like to tell the tired man on his return home that
his average speed was zero!]
25. A police van moving on a highway with a speed of 30 km h −1 fires a bullet at a thief s car
speeding away in the same direction with a speed of 192 km h −1 . If the muzzle speed of the
bullet is 150 ms−1 , with what speed does the bullet hit the thief s car? (Note: Obtain that speed
which is relevant for damaging the thief s car).
26. On a 60 km straight road, a bus travels the first 30 km with a uniform speed of 30 kmh −1. How
fast must the bust travel the next 30 km so as to have an average speed of 40 kmh −1 for the entire
trip?
27. The displacement x of a particle varies with time as x=4t 2 − 15t + 25. Find the position,
velocity and acceleration of the particle at t = 0. [Here x is in m and t is in s]
28. The acceleration of a particle in ms−2 is given by a = 3t2 + 2t + 2, where time t is in second. If the
particle starts with a velocity v = 2 ms−1 at t = 0, then find the velocity at the end of 2 s.
29. The two straight rays OA and OB on the same displacement-time graph make angle 30° and 60°
with time axis respectively as shown in figure:
(i) Which ray represents greater velocity?
(ii) What is the ratio of two velocity represented by OA and OB?