Kinematics — practice questions

103 curated practice questions from Kinematics (Physics NEET, NTA Exams) — 61 easy, 18 hard, 24 medium. Every question includes the final answer free; step-by-step worked solutions with a free account.

• A river is flowing at the rate of 6 km/hr. A swimmer across with a velocity of 9 km/hr. What will be the resultant…
• A police car while chasing a thief accelerates its speed from 45 km/h to 75 km/h to catch him over a distance of 80 m…
• A particle moves towards east with velocity 5 m/s. After 10 seconds its direction changes towards north with same…
• Two balls of mass M_ 1 and M _ 2 are thrown vertically upwards with the same speed u. Neglecting air resistance, they…
• A truck is running at a speed of 40 km/hr. The driver suddenly applies the brakes and brings the vehicle to rest in 10…
• If a=A ^ 2 s i n t when A and are constants. Find velocity of the particle. ( 'a' is the acceleration of the particle)
• A body of mass 2 kg is moving along X direction with velocity 2 m/s. If a force of 4 N is applied on it along Y…
• The Earth cannot be regarded as a true inertial frame of reference because
• A particle is moving such that its position coordinates ( x , y ) are (2m, 3m) at time t = 0, (6m, 7m) at time t = 2 s…
• A body with mass 5 kg is acted upon by a force F =(-3 i +4 j ) N . If its initial velocity at t = 0 is u =(6 i -12 j )…
• A block at rest slides down a smooth inclined plane which makes an angle 60º with the vertical and it reaches the…
• A particle moves along a straight line such that its displacement at any time t is given by 5= [t^ 3 -6 t^ 2 +3 t+4 ]…
• A car runs at a constant speed on a circular track of radius 100 m, taking 62.8 s for every circular lap. The average…
• A particle moves from the point (2.0 i +4.0 j ) m at with an initial velocity (5.0 i +4.0 j ) ms ^ -1 . It is acted…
• Two cars P and Q start from a point at the same time in a straight line and their positions are represented by x _ p (…
• A small block slides down an inclined plane starting from the rest. Friction is absent. If 5_ n is the distance…
• A boat is moving with a velocity of 3 i +4 j units with respect to the ground. The water in the river is flowing with a…
• A body is thrown vertically up with a velocity u. It passes three points A, B and C in its upward journey with velocity…
• A person completes a round on a circular path of 360 m in 6 minutes. The average speed of the person in m/s is
• A body falls from a height h = 200 m. The ratio of distance travelled in each 2 s, during t = 0 to t = 6 s of the…
• A soldier jumps out from an aeroplane with a parachute. After dropping through a distance of 19.6 m, he opens the…
• The relation between time t and distance x is t=a x^ 2 +b x where a and b are constants. The acceleration is
• A body is moving in a circular path of diameter 0.2 m at the speed which increases uniformly. If the speed of the body…
• A bomb is dropped from an aeroplane flying horizontally with a velocity of 720 km/h at an altitude 980 m. When will the…
• A ball is projected horizontally with a velocity of 5 m/s from the top of a building 19.6 m high. How long will the…
• The speed of a boat is 5 km / h in still water. It crosses a river of width 1 km along the shortest possible path in 15…
• A car is negotiating a curved road of radius R . The road is banked at an angle The coefficient of friction between the…
• Two bodies of different masses are dropped from heights of 16 m and 25 m respectively. The ratio of the time taken by…
• Ship A is sailing towards north-east with velocity v =30 i +50 j km/hr where points east and , north. Ship B is at a…
• A boy sitting on the topmost berth in the compartment of a train, which is just going to stop on a railway station…
• A car is traveling at 72 km/h and is 20 m from a barrier when the driver puts on the brakes. The car hits the barrier 2…
• The component of vector A =a_ x i +a_ y j +a_ z k along the direction of i - j is
• A man on an open platform, which is descending at constant speed of 3 ms -1 , throws a ball relative to the platform…
• The displacement of a particle is represented by the following equation 5=4 t^ 3 +6 t^ 2 +5 t+9 , where S is in meter…
• A particle is moving in a plane with velocity given by u =u_ n i + aw ( t) j . The displacement in y-direction during a…
• Two seconds after projection, a projectile is traveling in a direction inclined at 30^ to the horizontal. After one…
• A particle moves according to the equation t= x +3 . When the particle come to rest?
• A wall clock has a 4 cm long minute hand. The average velocity of the tip of the minute hand reaching 06:00 hrs to…
• A particle moves with a deceleration proportional to v and the Initial velocity v 0 . Find the time after which it will…
• A truck travelling due north at 20 m/s turns west and travels at the same speed. The change in its velocity be [UPSEAT…
• The maximum height attained by a projectile when thrown at an angle θ with the horizontal is found to be half the…
• When 0.1 mol MnO _ 4 ^ 2- is oxidised the quantity of electricity required to completely oxidise MnO _ 4 ^ 2- to MnO _…
• A particle moves so that its position vector is given by F = x + y . Where is a constant. Which of the following is…
• Assertion : Two bodies of masses M and m ( M > m ) are allowed to fall from the same height if the air resistance for…
• A car accelerates at the rate of m / s ^ 2 for some time and then decelerates at m / s ^ 2 for the rest of the time…
• The X and Y components of a force F acting at 30º to x -axis are respectively [KCET 2012]
• y component of velocity is 20 and x component of velocity is 10 The direction of motion of the body with the horizontal…
• Consider a car moving along a straight horizontal road with a speed of 72 km / h . If the coefficient of kinetic…
• The position vector of a particle is determined by the expression The distance traversed in first 10 sec is [DPMT 2002]
• Two balls A and B are thrown simultaneously. A is thrown vertically upwards with a speed of 20 m/s from the ground and…
• A lift is moving down with acceleration, a. A man in the lift drops a ball inside the lift. The acceleration of the…
• A particle moves along a straight line such that its displacement at any time t is given by 5= (t^ 3 -6 t^ 2 +3 t+6 )…
• Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Assertion (A)…
• In the arrangement, shown in the figure, the ends P and Q of a stretchable string move downwards with uniform speed u…
• A particle is moving with velocity v = k ( y i + x j ) , where k is a constant. The general equation for its path is
• A train accelerated uniformly from rest attains a maximum speed of 40 m/s in 20 s. It travels at this speed for 20 s…
• A body moving in one direction covers 20 m in the 4th sec and 12 m in the 2nd sec. The distance covered by the body in…
• The position of a particle x (in metre) at a time t second is given by the relation r = [3 t i -t^ 2 j +4 k ] …
• An elevator in which a man is standing is moving upward with a speed of 10 m/s uniformly. If the man drops a coin from…
• A body is moving in a circular path with acceleration a. If its velocity gets doubled, then the ratio of acceleration…
• A person standing on the floor of an elevator drops a coin. The coin reaches the floor in time t 1 if the elevator is…
• A car travelling on a straight track moves with uniform velocity of v 1 for some time and with uniform velocity v 2 for…
• A ball is travelling with uniform translatory motion. This means that
• A balloon starts rising from the ground with an acceleration of 1.25 m/s 2 . After 8 s, a stone is released from the…
• A body starts from rest and moves with a uniform acceleration. The ratio of the distance covered in the n ^ th sec to…
• A cyclist riding the bicycle at a speed 14 3 m/s takes a turn around a circular road of radius 20 3 m without skidding…
• Two stones of masses m and 2m are whirled in horizontal circles, the heavier one in radius r 2 and the lighter one in…
• A particle has an initial velocity of (3 i +4 j ) and acceleration [0.4 i +0.3 j ] . Its speed after 10 s is
• A player is standing on a stationary lift. He throws a ball upward with a speed of 50 m/s. After sometime, the ball…
• The normal reaction for a vehicle of 800 kg mass, negotiating a turn on a banked road at maximum possible speed without…
• A scooterist of mass 100 kg is moving along a smooth road with an initial velocity of 10 m/s north (N). Suddenly, a…
• A particle is moving in a plane with velocity given by: v = i (u_ n )+ j ( am t) if the particle is at the origin at t…
• A particle moves in the X-Y plane under the influence of a force such that its linear momentum is , where A and k are…
• A car starting from rest, at constant acceleration covers a distance 5_ 1 in time t. It covers a distance ^ 5 2 in the…
• The wheel of railway carriage is 5 feet in diameter and makes 7 revolutions in a second; how fast is the train going?
• Two ends of a train moving with a constant acceleration, pass a certain point with velocity u and v. The velocity with…
• A car is moving uniformly at a constant velocity of 40 km/h, then its acceleration is
• A police car is traveling in a straight line with constant speed v. A truck traveling in the same direction with…
• An athlete throws a discus form rest to a final angular velocity of 15 rad/s in 0.270 s before releasing it. During…
• The ratio of the distance travelled by a freely falling body in the 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd and 4 th second
• A person completes half of its journey with speed v 1 and rest half with speed v 2 . The average speed of the person is…
• Figure below shows the distance-time graph of the motion of a car. It follows from the graph that the car is 5
• The displacement of a particle varies with time (t) as 5=a t^ 2 -b t^ 3 . At what time acceleration of the particle…
• An object, moving with a speed of 6.25 m/s, is decelerated at a rate given by: d v d t =-2.5 v where v is the…
• A train travels 2 m in the first two seconds and 2.2 m in the next four seconds. Velocity at the end of the seventh…
• A particle moves such that its position vector r (t)= t i + t j where is a constant and t is time. Then which of the…
• A plane is revolving around the earth with a speed of 100 km/hr at a constant height from the surface of earth. The…
• A 100 m sprinter increases her speed from rest uniformly at the rate of 1 m/s 2 up to three quarters of the total run…
• A certain vector in the xy plane has an x -component of 12 m and a y -component of 8 m . It is then rotated in the xy…
• The acceleration due to gravity on the planet A is 9 times the acceleration due to gravity on planet B. A man jumps to…
• The distance traveled by an object along a straight line in time t is given by 5=3-4 t+5 t^ 2 , the initial velocity of…
• A body is moving with velocity 30 m/s towards east. After 10 seconds its velocity becomes 40 m/s towards north. The…
• A body, thrown upwards with some velocity reaches the maximum height of 50 m. Another body with double the mass thrown…
• A girl after being angry throws her engagement ring from the top of a building 15 m high towards her boyfriend with an…
• It is safe to jump from a height of 2 m on the surface of the earth. If the acceleration due to gravity on a particular…
• Two persons A and B are located in X - Y plane at the points (0, 0) and (0, 10), respectively. (The distances are…
• A particle moves according to the law: v=a x . Find the average velocity in the first s metres of the path.
• The co-ordinates of a moving particle at any time 't' are given by x= t^ 3 and y= t^ 3 . The speed of the particle at…
• If acceleration of a particle at particular time is 2t m/sec 2 . Find its displacement in term of t.
• A car is circulating on the path of radius r and at any time its velocity is v and rate of increase of velocity is 'a'…
• A ball is dropped from a bridge 122.5 m above a river. After the ball has been falling for two seconds, a second ball…
• When an object is shot from the bottom of a long smooth inclined plane kept at an angle with horizontal, it can travel…
• A particle starting from rest, moves in a circle of radius 'r'. It attains a velocity of V 0 m/s in the n th round. Its…

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