Motion in 1D and Circular motion G-11

1. The velocity of a particle is given by V (t) = 20r2 -100t + 50. At what

time, the acceleration of the particle becomes zero?
A. 3 sec. B.2 sec. C. 3.5 sec. D. 2.5 sec.
2. A ball is thrown vertically down ward with an initial speed of 20m/s from a
height of 60m. What is the speed of the ball just before it strikes the
ground?
A. 20m/s B. 30m/s C. 40m/s D. 50m/s
3 A ball is thrown vertically down ward with an initial speed of 20m/s from a
height of 60m.
What is the speed of the ball just before it strikes the ground?
A. 20m/s B. 30ms C. 40m/s .D. 50m/s
4. In one dimensional motion where the velocity changes linearly with time,
the slope of a
Velocity-time graph represents:
A. Displacement C. Acceleration
B. Velocity D. Speed.
5. A 800 g pendulum bob is held at an angle 600 from the vertical by a 6 N
horizontal force F as shown Fig-3. The tension in the string supporting the
pendulum bob is:

A. 8.5 N B. 14 N C. 10 N D.10.4N
6. Which one of the following situations is impossible?
A. A body having constant velocity and variable acceleration
B. A body having zero velocity and non-zero acceleration
C. A body having velocity east and acceleration west
D. A body having velocity east and acceleration east
7. The displacement of a body from a reference point is given by Vĩ= 2t +5
Where x is in meters and t is in seconds. This shows that the body is:
A. In uniform motion. C. Uniformly decelerated.
B. Uniformly accelerated. D. At rest.
8. A stone is tied to a 0.5 m string and whirled at a constant speed of 3.0 m/s
in a
vertical circle. Its acceleration at the top of the circle is:
A. 12m/s², down C. 18 m/s, down
B. 12 m/s, up D. 18 m/s, up
 9. Find the maximum speed of a car with which it can be safely driven along
a curve of radius 30 m and the coefficient of friction between tires
and road is 0.8 (Take g = 10 m/s')
A. 12m/s B. 240m/s C. 18 m/s D. 2√ 6m/s
10. A 100 g ball is whirled in a horizontal circle of radius 50 cm. With what
maximum
speed can it travel if the breaking strength of the rod is 50 N?
A. 25m/s B. 240m/s C. 5 m/s D. 5√ 10m/s
11. The total stopping distance for the car traveling at 72 km/h with a
reaction time of 2 seconds :
Physical quantities and Vector
1. Which of the following pair of quantities have the same dimension?
A. Area and volume C. velocity and acceleration
B. length and area D. distance and displacement
2. What is the horizontal component of the displacement 8m at angle 30 0
from +x-axis?
A) 4√3m B. 4m C. 2m. D.
1m
3. Which one of the following is the collection of physical quantities?
A. Mass, speed, fear, force, pressure C. energy, work, love,
momentum, force
B. Time, temperature, length, velocity D. hope, love, fear,
hate, desire
4. A type of vector that represents the position of a body related to
another is?
A. Collinear vector B. coplanar vector C. position vector
D. Unit vector
5. What is the unit vector in the direction of vector ⃗ A = 3i+4j?
3i+ 4 j 3i+ 4 j 3i+ 4 j
A. B. C. D.
25 5 3
3i+ 4 j
4
6. What is the value of linear velocity, if ⃗ ω = 3i + 4j+k and if if r⃗ = 5i - 6j+
6k
A. 30i - 13j - 38k B) 6i-2j+8k C) 4i-13j+6k D) -
15i -24j +6k
7. Two vectors are given as A=5i+4j and B= 2i+3j. What will be the
value of vector C, such that C=3A-2B?
A. 11i+6j B. 11i-6j C. -11i-6j D. 19i+18j
⃗ ⃗
8. The vector if A =ai+aj +3k and if B = ai-2j -k are perpendicular to each
other. The positive value of a is A) 3 B) 4 C) 9
D) 13
9. A particle moves from position (3i+2j-6k) to (14i + 13j 9k) due to a
uniform force of F (4i + j +3k) N. If the displacement in meters then
work done will be:
A) 100J B) 200 J C) 300 J D) 250 J
 10. Two forces if ⃗
A = 5i + 10j -20k and if ⃗
B = 10i -5j -15k act on a
⃗ ⃗
single point. The angle between A and B is nearly
A) 30° B) 45° C) 60° D) 90°

11. What is the magnitude and direction of vector 2i+ 2j

respectively?
A. 2 √ 2 N tan−1(1) B. 2 √ 2 N tan−1(4) C. 2 N tan−1(1) D. 2 N
−1
tan (1)
12. The angle between two collinear vectors can be:
A. 90 B. 0 C. 180 D. B and C
13. The addition of two vectors is minimum if two vectors are
A. in the same direction C. perpendicular
B. in opposite direction D. neither parallel nor
perpendicular
14. Which one of the following groups of physical quantities contains
only vectors?
A. Work, Electric field, Displacement and Force
B. Acceleration, Speed, Force and Electric field
C. Momentum, Energy, Magnetic field and Force
D. Displacement, Velocity, Magnetic field and Momentum

Kepler's laws of planetary motion

1. What is the first of Kepler's laws?
A) Law of Equal Areas
B) Law of Ellipses
C) Law of Harmonies
D) Law of Gravity
2. According to Kepler's second law, a planet moves fastest when it is:
A) Farthest from the Sun
B) Closest to the Sun
C) At a right angle to the Sun
D) In a circular orbit
3. Kepler's third law relates the square of the orbital period to:
A) The mass of the planet
B) The distance from the Sun
C) The cube of the semi-major axis
D) The speed of light
4. Which of the following statements is true according to Kepler's first law?
A) Planets orbit in perfect circles.
B) Planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus.
C) Planets do not move at constant speeds.
D) All orbits are identical.

5. The shape of a planet’s orbit is:

 A) Circular
B) Elliptical
C) Parabolic
D) Hyperbolic
6. What does the term "perihelion" refer to?
A) The point in a planet's orbit farthest from the Sun
B) The point in a planet's orbit closest to the Sun
C) The average distance from the Sun
D) The time it takes to complete one orbit
7. In Kepler's second law, what does "law of equal areas" imply?
A) Planets cover equal distances in equal time intervals.
B) Planets sweep out equal areas in equal time intervals.
C) Planets maintain constant speeds throughout their orbit.
D) Orbits are perfectly circular.
8. If a planet's distance from the Sun doubles, what happens to its orbital
period according to Kepler's third law?
A) It halves
B) It doubles
C) It quadruples
D) It remains the same
E) It three times
9. What is the semi-major axis of an ellipse?
A) The longest diameter
B) The shortest diameter
C) The average distance from the foci
D) The area enclosed by the ellipse
10. Who formulated the laws of planetary motion?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Johannes Kepler
C) Galileo Galilei
D) Albert Einstein
11. What is the significance of Kepler's laws?
A) They explain gravity.
B) They describe the motion of planets around the Sun.
C) They predict eclipses.
D) They describe wave motion.
12. What does Kepler’s third law state about the relationship between a

A) T² ∝ r B) T² ∝ r³ C) T ∝ r² D) T ∝ r
planet’s period and its distance from the Sun?

13. Which celestial body did Kepler primarily study to develop his laws?
A) Jupiter B) Mars C) Venus D)
Saturn
14. Kepler's laws were derived from observations made by which
astronomer?
 A) Copernicus C) Galileo Galilei
B) Tycho Brahe D) Isaac Newton
15. What is an aphelion?
A) The point in a planet's orbit closest to the Sun
B) The point in a planet's orbit farthest from the Sun
C) The average distance from the Sun
D) The point where a planet moves fastest
16. According to Kepler's first law, how many foci does an elliptical orbit
have?
A) One B) Two C) Three D) Four
17. What did Kepler's laws help to support in terms of scientific theory?
A) Geocentric model of the universe
B) Heliocentric model of the universe
C) Flat Earth theory
D) Quantum mechanics

Kinematics
1. A cart on an air track is moving at 0.5 m/s when the air is suddenly turned
off. The cart comes to rest after traveling 1m. The experiment is repeated,
but now the cart is moving at 2m/s when the air is turned off. How far does
the cart travel before coming to rest?
(UEE:2004),
A. 1m B. 2 m. C. 3 m. D. 4 m.
2. A car accelerates steadily from 0 m/s to 30 m/s in a distance d and a time
t. Another car takes a time 3t to accelerate steadily from stationary to the
same final velocity. What distance does the second car cover during the new
acceleration?(UEE: 2004).
A. 3d. B.d. C. d/3. D. d/9
3. A object moving with uniform acceleration has a velocity of 12 m/s in the
positive x direction when its x coordinate is 3 cm. If its x coordinate 2 sec.
later is -5 cm, what is its acceleration? (UEE: 2004).
A. -12 m/s B. -13 m/s. C. -16 ms. D. 12 m/s.
4. What is the direction to which a fish must push the water with its fins in
order to proper eastward? (UEE: 2005).
A. eastward. B. upward. C. westward. D. downward
5. A rocket moving in free space has a speed of 3 x 10 m/s relative to the
Earth. Its engines are turned on, and fuel is ejected in a direction opposite
the rocket's motion at a 5 x 10° m/s relative to therocket. What is the speed
of the rocket relative to the Earth once the rocket's mass is reduced to half
its mass before ignition? (UEE:2005)
A. 7x 10'3m/s. B.5x 10'3m/s. C. 4 x 10'3 m/s. D. 2 x 10'3m/s.
6. An airplane flies at speed of 720 km/hr at 370 North of West direction.
How far does the
plane travel to the west in 1 hour? (UEE:2008)
A. 432 km.
B. 720 km.
C. 560 km.
D. 504 km.
7. An airplane travelled from Addis Ababa to Mekele. 780 km, in 45 minutes,
What was its
average speed? (UEE:200O8)
A. 0.28 m/s.
B. 1040 km/hr.
C. 17.3 m/min.
D. 585 km/hr.
8. An example of a body moving with constant speed but still accelerating is:
A. A body moving on a straight road.
B. A body moving on a straight rail way track.
C. A body moving in a circular path.
D. A body falling in a viscous fluid.

Multiple choices
(EUEE2006) 1. What does the slope of a velocity-time graph represent?
(A) Distance
(B) Acceleration
(C) Displacement
(D) Speed
(EUEE) 2. A body moving with constant acceleration covers the distance between
two points 60 m apart in 5 s. Its velocity as it passes the second point is 15 m/s.
What is the acceleration?
(A) 3 m/s
(B) 2.4 m/s
(C) 1.8 m/s?
(D) 1.2 ms
(EUEE 2011)3. What is the magnitude of the resultant velocity for a bird flying first
at a speed of 10 m/s North East and then flying to South at a speed of 8 m/s?
(A) 7.13 m's
(B) 16.6 m's
(C) 12.8 ms
(D) 7.07 m's
(EUEE 2011) 4. A driver of an automobile travelling at a constant speed of 20 m/s
suddenly applies a brake and the automobile comes to rest in 2.0 seconds after
skidding for a certain
distance. What is the length of the skid distance?
(A. 400 m
(B. 10 m
(C. 40 m
D. 0m

(EUEE2010)
 5. A race car is moving at a constant speed of 35 m/s. A security car was moving at
a speed of5 m/s as the race car passes by t and was
accelerating at constant rate of 5 m/s. What was the speed of the
security car when it took over the race car?
(A) 35 m/s
(ej 60 m/s
(C) 65 m/s
(D) 5 m/s
(UEE:2003) 6. Uniform circular motion is a:
A. Motion with constant velocity.
B. Motion in one dimension.
C. motion with acceleration of constant magnitude.
D. motion in which net force is constant
(UEE:2003) 7. An object of mass m moving with initial speed of 15m/s got an
acceleration of 1Om/s after a constant force F is applied to it. How long does it take
for the object to reach 90m from its initial position:
A. 3.22 s
B. 0.75 s.
C. 3 s.
D. 2.5 s
(UEE:2003) 8. A ball is thrown downward (not dropped) from the top of a tower.
After being released, its downward:
A. Velocity will be uniform.
B. Acceleration will be equal to g.
C. Acceleration will be greater than g.
D. Acceleration will be smaller than g.