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Yakeen neet 2.0 2026
Centre of mass and System of Particles Assignment-03
By: M.R. Sir
1. Which of the following statements is true? 3. Which of the following statements are true?
(i) A cart of mass M is tied by one end of a (i) A uniform wooden plank of mass 150 kg and
massless rope of length 10 m. The other end of length 8 m is floating on still water with a man
the rope is in the hands of a man of mass M. of 50 kg at one end of it. The man walks to the
The entire system is on a smooth horizontal other end of the plank and stops. The distance
surface. The man is at x = 0 and the cart at covered by the plank is 2 m.
x = 10 m. If the man pulls the cart by the rope. (ii) A kid of mass 15 kg is sitting in a boat of, mass
(ii) the man and the cart will meet at the point 45 kg in a lake. The distance of kid from the
x = 5 m. Two spherical bodies of mass M and bank of lake is 12 m. Now the boy moves
5M and radii R and 2R, respectively, are inside the boat at a distance 4 m towards the
released in free space with initial separation bank and stops. The distance of the kid from
between their centers equal to 12 R. If they the bank (there is no friction between the water
attract each other due to the gravitational force and the boat) is 11 m.
only, then the distance covered by the smaller (iii) Two persons of masses 40 kg and 60 kg are
body just before collision is 7.5 R. sitting at the midpoint of a 12-m-long boat
(iii) Two skaters A and B, having masses 40 kg and (140 kg) standing still in water. Now they move
60 kg, respectively, stand facing each other the to opposite ends of the boat. Neglecting the
10 m apart on a horizontal smooth surface. friction between boat and water, the distance
They pull on a rope stretched between them, traveled by the boat in water is 50 cm.
the distance covered by A, when skaters meet is (iv) In a gravity free space, a man of mass m
6 m. standing at a height h above the floor, throws a
(iv) A balloon (mass M) is attached to light rope of ball of mass m0 straight down with a speed v0.
length L. To the other end of the rope a boy When the ball reaches the floor, the distance of
(mass m) is hanging in air. The system is at m0
the man above the floor is 1 + h.
rest. The distance traveled by the balloon (in m
downward direction) when the boy touches the
(1) (i), (ii) (2) (i), (iii), (iv)
ML
balloon is . (3) (ii), (iii), (iv) (4) All of the above
M +m
(1) (i), (ii) (2) (i), (ii), (iii)
4. Two small particles of equal masses start moving in
(3) (iii), (iv) (4) all of the above the opposite directions from a point A in a
horizontal circular orbit. Their tangential velocities
2. If blocks collide elastically head-on, the ratio of are v and 2v, respectively, as shown in the figure.
Between collisions, the particles move with constant
maхіmum compression of the left spring and the
speeds. After making how many elastic collisions,
right spring will be other than that at A, these two particles will again
reach the point A.
(1) 3 : 5 (2) 2 : 3
(3) 5 : 4 (4) 5 : 2 (1) 4 (2) 3
(3) 2 (4) 1
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5. A wooden plank of mass M and length L is floating 7. Match the columns
in still water. A person of mass m starts at one end Elastic head-on collision
−v0 5v
of the plank and reaches to other end in time t0, (i) v1 = , v2 = 0
3 3
moving with a constant speed. Choose the correct
(ii) v1 = −v0 , v2 = v0
option
(i) The speed of the person as seen from the −v0 2v
(iii) v1 = , v2 = 0
L 3 3
ground is smaller than .
t0 v0 5v
(iv) v1 = , v2 = 0
2 2
(ii) The speed of the plank as seen from the ground
(1) (A)-(iv); (B)-(i); (C)-(iii); (D)-(ii)
m L
is . (2) (A)-(i); (B)-(iii); (C)-(iv); (D)-(ii)
m + M t0
(3) (A)-(iii); (B)-(i); (C)-(iv); (D)-(ii)
(iii) The speed of the plank as seen from the ground (4) (A)-(iii); (B)-(iv); (C)-(i); (D)-(ii)
M L
is . 8. When the spring is compressed to maximum, what
m + M t0
fraction of incident the kinetic energy is stored in
2 spring?
1 L
(iv) The total K.E. of the system is (m + M )
2 t0
(1) (i), (ii) (2) (i), (iii)
(3) (i), (iii), (iv) (4) (i), (ii), (iv) 1 1
(1) (2)
4 2
6. In a smooth circular tube of radius R, a particle of 3 1
(3) (4)
mass m moving with speed V0 hits another particle
4 3
of mass 3m at rest as shown. The time after which
9. Two balls, having linear momenta p1 = piˆ and
the next collision takes place (assume elastic
collision) p2 = − piˆ, undergo a collision in free space. There is
no external force acting on the balls. Let p1 and p2
be their final momenta. The following options
is(are) NOT ALLOWED for any non-zero value of
p, a1, a2, b1, b2, c1 and c2 [JEE Adv 2008]
(i) p1 = a1iˆ + b1 ˆj + c1kˆ, p2 = a2iˆ + b2 ˆj
(ii) p1 = c1kˆ, p2 = c2 kˆ
R 2R (iii) p1 = a1iˆ + b1 ˆj + c1kˆ, p2 = a2iˆ + b2 ˆj − c1kˆ
(1) (2)
v0 v0 (iv) p1 = a1iˆ + b1 ˆj , p2 = a2iˆ + b1 ˆj
R R (1) (i), (ii) (2) (ii), (iii)
(3) (4) (3) (iii), (iv) (4) (i), (iv)
2v0 4v0
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10. A block of mass m is pushed towards the movable 13. As shown below, bob A of a pendulum having
wedge of mass M and height h, with a velocity v0. massless string of length ‘R’ is released from 60° to
the vertical. It hits another bob B of half the mass
All surfaces are smooth. The minimum value of v0
that is at rest on a friction less table in the center.
for which the block will reach the top of the wedge Assuming elastic collision, the magnitude of the
is velocity of bob A after the collision will be (take g
as acceleration due to gravity.)
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2ghm
(1) 2gh (2)
M
2 gh(m + M ) 2 ghM
(3) (4)
M (m + M )
2 1
(1) Rg (2) Rg
3 3
11. A bullet is fired from a gun. The force on the bullet
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is given by F = 600 – 2 × 105t, where F is in newton (3) Rg (4) Rg
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and t in second. The force on the bullet becomes
zero as soon as it leaves the barrel. What is the 14. A ball of mass 200 g rests on a vertical post of
average impulse imparted to the bullet height 20 m. A bullet of mass 10 g, travelling in
horizontal direction, hits the centre of the ball. After
(1) 9 N-s (2) zero collision both travels independently. The ball hits
(3) 0.9 N-s (4) 1.8 N-s the ground at a distance 30 m and the bullet at a
distance of 120 m from the foot of the post. The
value of initial velocity of the bullet will be
12. A boy (mass 40 kg) is standing at one end of a boat (if g = 10 m/s2): [30 Jan, 2023 (Shift-I)]
(mass 60 kg) in still water. The length of the boat is (1) 120 m/s (2) 60 m/s
10 m and the boy takes 2 s to reach at other end of (3) 400 m/s (4) 360 m/s
boat moving with constant speed. Assuming no
friction between the boat and the water. 15. A ball is dropped from a height of 20 m. If the
coefficient of restitution for the collision between
(i) The distance covered by the boat is 4 m ball and floor is 0.5, after hitting the floor, the ball
(ii) The distance covered by the boy with respect to rebounds to a height of _______ m.
the ground is 6 m. [31 Jan, 2023 (Shift-II)]
(iii) The velocity of the boy with respect to the
16. A body of mass 1 kg collides head on elastically
ground is < 5 m/s with a stationary body of mass 3 kg. After collision,
(iv) The velocity of the boy is 3 m/s the smaller body reverses its direction of motion and
moves with a speed of 2 m/s. The initial speed of the
(1) (i), (ii) (2) (ii), (iii) smaller body before collision is _____ ms–1.
(3) (i), (ii), (iii) (4) All options are correct [25 Jan, 2023 (Shift-II)]
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17. What percentage of kinetic energy of a moving 18. A particle of mass 4m which is at rest explodes into
particle is transferred to a stationary particle when it three fragments. Two of the fragments each of mass
strikes the stationary particle of 5 times its mass? m are found to move with a speed v each in mutually
(Assume the collision to be head-on elastic perpendicular directions. The total energy released
collision) [27 June, 2022 (Shift-I)] in the process of explosion is ______.
(1) 43% (2) 66.6% [JEE Adv. 1987]
(3) 55.5% (4) 33.3%
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ANSWER KEY
1. (4) 9. (4)
2. (3) 10. (3)
1. (2) 11. (3)
2. (4) 12. (4)
3. (2) 13. (2)
4. (3) 14. (4)
5. () 15. 5m
6. (2) 16. 4
7. (3) 17. (3)
8. (3) 3
18. m/s2
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