Class-9

Physics
EDITION ONE

Motion
Stalin Malhotra(TMH)
Unsolved Numerical Problems

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Level-1 Unsolved Numerical Problems

01 A body moving with a speed of 36 km/h is brought to rest in 10 s. What is the negative acceleration and
the distance travelled by the body before coming to rest? (Ans. 1 m/s2, 50 m)

02 A train starts its journey from station P; accelerates at the rate of 2 m/s2, and reaches its maximum speed
in IO s. It maintains this speed for 30 min and retards uniformly to rest at the station Q after the next 20 s.
Calculate:
(a) The maximum speed of the train.
(b) Retardation
(c) The distance between stations P and Q. (Ans. (a) 72 km/h (b) I m/s2 (c) 36.3 km)

03 A body travels 200 cm in the first 2 s and 220 cm in the next 5 s. Calculate the velocity at the end of the
seventh second from the start. (Ans. 2.22 m/s)

04 Robbers in a car travelling at 20 m/s pass a policeman on a motorcycle at rest. The policeman
immediately starts chasing the robbers. The policeman accelerates at 3 m/s2 for 12 s and thereafter
travels at a constant velocity. Calculate the distance covered by the policeman before he overtakes the
car. (Ans. 270 m)

05 Interpret the velocity-time graphs (Figs 2.16 and 2.17)

(Ans. No acceleration; uniform acceleration)
06 In Fig. 2.18 the position of a body at different times is shown. Calculate the speed of the body as it moves
from A to B, B to C and C to D. (Ans. 1 cm/s; O; 2 cm/s)

07 A body is coming down an inclined plane with an acceleration of 1 m/s2. If it starts from rest, find the
time after which its velocity becomes 5 m/s. (Ans. 5 s)

08 The motion of a moving train has been depicted in Fig. 2.19. Find
(a) the average velocity of the train in time OA.
(b) the total distance covered by the train from O to D.
(c) the uniform acceleration and retardation of the train. (Ans. 6 m/s; 1860 m; 6 m/s2, -5 m/s2)
09 A body is dropped from a balloon which is moving upward with a speed of 10 m/s. The body is dropped
when the balloon is at a height of390 m from the surface of the earth. Find the approximate time taken
by the body to reach the surface of the earth. Take g = 10 m/s2. (Ans. 10 s)

10 If a force of 15N acts on a body in the direction of north and another force of 10 N simultaneously acts on
it in the direction of south, what is the resultant force acting on the body? (Ans. 5 N towards north)

11 A body is moving with uniform acceleration, and describes 75m the 6th second and 115 m the 11th
second. Show that its moves 155 m during the 16th second.

12 (a) A body is dropped from the roof of a building 10 m high. Calculate the time of fall, and the speed with
which it hits the ground. Take g = 10 m/s2. (Ans. 1.4 s; 14 m/s)
(b) A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 20 m/s. How high did the ball go? Take g = 9.8
m/s2. (Ans. 20.4 m)

13 A bicycle moving with a velocity of 3m/s speeds up with an acceleration of 0.5 m/s2 What will its velocity
be after 5 s and how far will it have moved during this time. (Ans. 5.5 m/s, 21.25 m)

14 A ball is thrown vertically upwards. It reaches its maximum height in 2.5 s. If the acceleration of the ball
10 m/s2 be directed towards the ground, find the initial velocity of the ball. (Ans. 25 m/s)

15 A scooterist is racing at a speed of 72 km/h. If the radius of the wheel is 20 cm, find the angular speed of
the wheels. (Ans. 100 rad/s)

16 In case of uniform linear motion, what is the value of acceleration? (Ans. Zero)

17 Separate the vector and scalar quantities from the following: distance, velocity, displacement, speed.
(Ans. distance and speed scalar quantities)

18 Read each statement below carefully, and state with reasons and examples if it is true or false. A particle
in one-dimensional motion
(a) with zero speed at an instant may have non-zero acceleration at that instant.
(b) with zero speed may have non-zero velocity.
(c) with constant speed must have zero acceleration.
(d) with positive value of acceleration must be speeding up.
Hints
(a) True (b) False (c) True (d) False
Level-2 Unsolved Numerical Problems
01 A wooden slab, starting from rest, slides down an inclined plane of length 10 m with an acceleration of 5
m/s. What would be its speed at the bottom of the inclined plane? (Ans. 10m/s)

02 A train starting from rest and moving with a uniform acceleration attains a speed of 90 km/h in 5 in. Find
(a) the acceleration and (b) the distance traversed. (Ans. (a)1/12m/s2 (b)3.75km)

03 A person rows his boat in a stream with a speed of 2.0 m/s. Water in the stream is flowing perpendicular
to the direction of flow, find graphically his resultant velocity. (Ans. 2.5m/s)

04 A bus starting from rest moves with a uniform acceleration of0. l mls2 for 2 m/n. Find (a) the speed
acquired and (b) the distance travelled. (Ans. (a)12m/s, (b)720m)

05 A train is travelling at 90 km/h. The brakes are applied so as to produce a uniform acceleration of -0.5
m/s2.Find how far the train goes before it stops? (Ans. 625m)

06 Find the initial velocity of a train which is stopped in 20 s by applying brakes. The retardation due to
brakes is 1.5 m/s2 (Ans. 30 m/s)

07 A bullet leaves the barrel of a rifle with a speed of 300 m/s If the length of the barrel is 0.9 m, at what
rate is the bullet accelerated while in the barrel? (Ans. 5 x 104 m/s2)

08 A car travels a certain distance with a speed of 40 ms-1 and returns with a speed u. If the average speed
for the whole journey is 48 ms-1, what is the value of u? (Ans. 60 ms-1)

09 An object of mass 0.5 kg is whirled at the end of a string 0.8 m long. If the string makes three revolutions
in 1.2 s, find the tension in the string. (Ans. 35.6 N)

10 A body starts from rest and is found to cover 3m during the 5th second of its motion. Find the
acceleration if it is uniformly accelerated. (Ans. 0.67 m/s2)

11 An aeroplane, taking off from a field, has a run of 500 m. What is the acceleration if it leaves the ground
in 10 s from the start? Also find the take off velocity. (Ans. 10 m/s2, 100 m/s)

12 A train 50 m long passes over a bridge 250 m long at a velocity of 30 km/h. How long will it take to
completely pass over the bridge? (Ans. 36 s)
13 A cyclist goes uphill at a speed of 8 km/h and downhill at a speed of 32 km/h. If the uphill and downhill
journeys involve the same distance, what is his average speed during the whole journey. (Ans. 12.8 km/h)

14 The figure given below is the distance-time graph of an object. Do you think it represents a real situation?
If so, why? (Ans. It does not represent a real situation.)

15 Look at the graphs (a) to (d) in Fig. 2.21 carefully and state with reasons, which of these cannot possible
represent one dimensional motion of a particle.
16 Represent graphically the motion of a body starting from rest and moving with uniform acceleration both
in terms of velocity-time and displacement-time axes.

(Ans. )

17 The position-time (x -t) graphs for two children A and B returning from their school O to their homes P
and Q respectively are shown in Fig. 2.24. Choose the correct entries in the brackets below:
(I) (A/B) lives closer to the school than (B/A).
(II) (AIB) starts from the school earlier than (B/A).
(III) A and B reach home at the (same/different) time.
(IV) (A/B) overtakes (B/A) on the road (once/twice).
(V) (AIB) walks faster than (BIA).
18 Do the following two graphs represent same type of motion? Name the motion. (Ans. Both the graphs
represent non-uniform motion)

(Ans. Both the graph represent non-uniform motion)

19 A body starts from rest, and moves along a straight line. It has uniformly accelerated motion upto time t1.
During the interval t2 -t1, it moves with uniform velocity. After time t2 its motion is retarded, and it comes
to rest at time t3. Draw the velocity-time graph.

( Ans. )

20 Mohan takes 15 minutes to go from his home to school and 30 minutes for the return journey. If the
distance between the school and the home is 4.5 km, what is his average velocity? (Ans. 0)

21 A car accelerates from rest at a constant rate 'A' for sometime, after which it retards at a constant rate 'B'
to come to rest. If the total time 'lapse is T seconds, evaluate the maximum velocity reached and the total
distance travelled in terms of A, B and C. (Ans. Vmax=(AB/(A+B))T, S=ABT2/2(A+B))

22 A train starts from a station P with a uniform acceleration a1 for some distance and then goes with the
uniform retardation a2 for some more distance to come to rest at the station Q. The distance between
the stations P and Q is 4km and the train takes 4 minutes to complete this journey. If the accelerations
are in km per minute2 unit.

1 1
Show that, + =2
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23 The speed of a train increases at a constant rate from zero to v, and then remains constant for an
interval, and finally decreases to zero at a constant rate {3. If L be the total distance described, prove that
the total time taken is

24 A body travels 2 m in the 2nd second and 6 m in the next four seconds. What will be the distance
travelled in the 9th second? (Ans. 12 cm)

25 A body travels 10m first three seconds and 15 m in the next four seconds. What is the velocity at the end
of 8th second? (Ans. 2.54 m/s)

26 A body starts from rest and is uniformly accelerated.' It travels a distance x in t s. Show that the distance
travelled in the tth second of its motion is
2 1
St =( 𝑡 − 𝑡 2)x