FIITJEE Bhilai Centre CPP 7

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TOPIC: Relative Motion

Relative motion in 1-D
1. A man in a balloon rising vertically with an acceleration of 4.9m/s2 releases a ball 2 seconds after a balloon is let go from the ground. The greatest height above the ground reached by the ball is (g=9.8m/s2) a. 14.7m b. 19.6m c. 19.8m d. 24.5m 2. A balloon starts rising from the ground with an acceleration of 2m/s2. After 8 seconds, a stone is released from the balloon, then choose the incorrect statement a. Separation between the balloon and stone at t=10 seconds is 24 m b. Velocity of balloon w.r.t. to stone at t=10 seconds is 24m/s upwards c. Acceleration of balloon w.r.t. stone is 12m/s2. d. Separation between the balloon and stone at t=10 seconds is 48 m 3. A balloon is moving vertically upwards with a speed of 50m/s. A ball is dropped from the balloon when it is at a height of 375m from the ground. Find the time required by the ball to reach the ground. Also find the total distance travelled by the ball after it is dropped from balloon and before it reaches the ground 4. Two balls A and B are thrown simultaneously from height of 0m and 160m and with velocity of 100m/s and 60m/s respectively. Find the time after which they cross each other. Is ball B is going up when they are crossing each other? Which ball reaches the ground first? What is the separation between the balls after 10 seconds of projection? 5. Two balls A and B are thrown simultaneously from height of 0m and 320m and with velocity of 100m/s and 60m/s respectively. Find the time after which they cross each other. Is ball B is going up when they are crossing each other? Which ball reaches the ground first? What is the separation between the balls after 10 seconds of projection? 6. At t=0 s, a balloon is at a height of 150m and has velocity of 10m/s in upward direction. Balloon has a constant acceleration of 2m/s2 in upward direction. Find the minimum velocity with which a package has to be thrown from the ground so that a person inside the balloon can catch the package. 7. Two particles A and B are initially 40m apart, A is behind B. Particle A is moving with uniform velocity of 10m/s towards B. particle B starts moving away from A wit constant acceleration of 2m/s2. Then the time at which minimum distance between A and B occurs, is given by 9.

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a. 2 s b. 4 s c. 5 s d. 6 s In the above problem, the minimum distance between the two is a. 20m b. 15m c. 25m d. 30m At t=0, a bus starts from rest with an acceleration of 1m/s2. A man who is 48m behind the bus can run with a uniform velocity of 10m/s, then the time after which the man can not catch the bus is a. 12 s b.10 s c.8 s d. 4.8 s PASSAGE: An elevator car whose floor to ceiling distance is equal to 2.7m starts ascending with constant acceleration of 1.2m/s2.2.0 s after the start a bolt begins falling from the ceiling of the elevator. Now answer the following questions i) Time required by the bolt to hit the floor of the elevator is a. 0.7 s b. 0.6 s c. 0.5 s d. 0.4 s ii) Average velocity of the bolt during the fall is a. 0.5m/s b. 1.0m/s c. 0.75m/s d. 1.25m/s iii) Average speed of the bolt during the fall is a. 1.68m/s b. 1.86m/s c. 1.56m/s d. 1.65m/s iv) Distance covered by the elevator car during the fall of the bolt is a. 1.79m b. 1.83m/s c. 1.97m/s d. 1.38m/s PASSAGE: An elevator without a ceiling is ascending up with an acceleration of 5m/s2. A boy on the elevator shoots a ball in vertical direction from a height of 2m above the floor of the elevator. At this instant the elevator is moving up with a velocity of 10m/s and floor of the elevator is at a height of 50m from the ground. The initial speed of the ball is 15m/s with respect to the elevator. Consider the duration for which the ball strikes the floor of the elevator in answering the following questions. i) The time in which the ball strikes the floor of elevator is given by a. 2.13 s b. 2.0 s c. 1.0 s d. 3.12 s ii) The maximum height reached by the ball, as measured from the ground would be a. 73.65 m b. 116.25 m c. 82.56 m d. 63.25m iii) Displacement of ball with respect to ground during its flight would be a. 16.25 m b. 8.76 m c. 20.24 m d. 30.56m iv) The maximum separation between the floor of the elevator and the ball during its flight would be a. 12m b. 15m c. 9.5m d. 7.5m A river has a steady speed of 0.500 m/s. A student swims upstream a distance of 300 m and swims back to the starting point. If the student can swim at a speed of 1.5 m/s in still water, how long does the trip take? Compare this with the time the trip would take if the water were still.

Relative motion in 2-D

13. PASSAGE: The velocity of the boat in still water is 30m/s. The width of the river (AB) is 1200m. The velocity of water is 15 m/s. The boat is initially at A. Answer the following question.

downstream on the same bank, from where the girl started and chases her to catch exactly in mid stream. (i) The time after which boy succeeded in catching the boat is a. 6/5 min b. 5/6 min c. 3/4 min d. 4/3 min ii) The constant speed and direction of swimming of the boy are a. 1 m/s , 135o to the direction of river flow b. 1 m/s , 135o to the direction of river flow c. 1 m/s , 120o to the direction of river flow d. 1 m/s , 135o to the direction of river flow iii) The distance swayed by the boat downstream, before the boy could catch hold of the boat a. 125 m b. m c. m d. 2 m 15. A man in a boat crosses a river from point A (refer to figure shown below). If he rows perpendicular to the banks, he reaches point C (BC=120m) in 10 min. If the man heads at a certain angle to the straight line AB (AB is perpendicular to the banks) against the current he reaches point B in 12.5 min. Find the width of the river w., the rowing velocity u, the speed of the river current V and the angle . Assume that the velocity of the boat relative to the water to be constant and the same magnitude in both the cases.

i) The minimum time taken by the boat to cross the river is a. 10 s b. 20 s c. 30s d. 40 s ii) The horizontal distance covered by the boat when taking minimum time is a. m b. m c. m d. 4 m iii) If the boat wants to reach the opposite corner (B) of the river, then at what angle with the river flow, should it steer the boat? (Clockwise - , anticlockwise +) a. b. c. d. iv) The time taken by the boat to cross the river in the above case is a. s s b. 4 s c. s d. v) If the boatman steers the boat at angle of the river flow, then drift of the boat is a. with

m m b. m c. m d. vi) If the boat has to reach at C which is ) m from B then at what angle from the river flow, should the boatman steer the boat? a. c. m d. b. vii) The time taken by the boat in the above case is s b. s c. s d. 2 s viii) If the boat has to reach at D which is ) m from B then at what angle from the river flow, should the boatman steer the boat? a. b. c. d. ix) The time taken by the boat in the above case is a. a. s b. s c. s d. 80 s x) If the water flow is increasing such that the water is accelerating at a rate of 0.5m/s2 and the boatman is steering the boat perpendicular to the river flow and the speed of river is 15m/s at start, then the drift is a. m b. 4 m c. m d. m xi) The time taken by the boat in the above case is a. 10 s b. 20 s c. 30s d. 40 s 14. A river of width 1000m flows with a velocity 5m/s. A girl in over-confidence starts from one bank towards another by propelling a boat with a velocity of 10m/s, perpendicular to the flow of water current. A boy in an attempt to save her starts at the same instant 500m,

16. A man with some passengers in his boat, starts perpendicular to the flow of the river 200m wide and flowing with 2m/s. Speed of the boat in still water is 4m/s. When he reaches half the width of the river, passengers asked him that they want to reach the just opposite end from where they had started a) Find the direction due which he must row to reach the required end b) How many times more time, it would take now to that in case if he would have denied the passengers. 17. A man wishes to cross the river of width 120m by a motor boat. His rowing speed in the still water is 3 m/s and his maximum walking speed is 1m/s. The river flows with a velocity of 4m/s. a) Find the path which he should take to get to the point directly opposite to this starting point in the shortest time b) Also find the time which he takes to reach his destination 18. An aircraft flies at 200 km/hr in still air. A wind is blowing at 1 km/hr from the south. The pilot wants to travel from a point A to a point B north east of A. Then find the

direction he must steer and the time taken in a journey if the distance between A and B is 700km. 19. A man is walking steadily on a horizontal road with speed of 2km/hr in a rainy day. Rain is falling vertically with the speed of 2km/hr. Find at what angle with his direction of travel should he hold the umbrella to avoid getting drenched. 20. Rain is falling at an angle of 30o with the vertical. The maximum distance from the wall (6m high) which is safe from the rain is m c. m d. m 21. Rain is falling with a speed of m/s perpendicular to the inclined plane. A person is travelling (as shown below) with speed of 2m/s on an inclined plane making an angle of 30o. Find at what angle he should keep umbrella. If suddenly the rain speed becomes three times, then find the new angle. a. m b.

24. A man walking steadily on a horizontal road with speed 2km/hr find that the rain falls vertically on him. If he doubles his speed, the rain seems to fall at 45o to vertical from the front side. Find at what direction and speed, the rain would strike him if he stops. 25. A vertical widescreen of a car is made up of 2 parts, where the upper one A is 25 cm vertically long and covers the top 5 cm of the lower piece B. The upper one is hinged at the top so that it can be opened outwards, inclining to the vertical. The car is running on the horizontal road at 60km/hr in the rain which is falling vertically at 20km/hr. Find the maximum angle through which the upper part A can be opened outwards such that the rain drops do not enter the car. 26. A pirate in a ship (black pearl) moving eastwards with speed of 120km/hr observes that another ship (Flying Dutch) is moving north-west with speed of 240km/hr at an angle of 120o with the east direction. Find the actual speed of the flying Dutch. If the pirate in Flying Dutchman sees that another ship (Interceptor) is moving westwards with speed 240 km/hr, what will be the velocity of Interceptor w.r.t. pirate in Black pearl. 27. Two ships A and B are moving with speed 30km/hr and km/hr along North and West Direction respectively as shown in the diagram below. Initially B lies 300 km North of A. Find the time at which distance between the two ships is minimum. Also find the minimum between the ships.

22. Rain is falling at an angle of 30o with the vertical with speed 10m/s. A truck containing water sensitive material inside a cylindrical container is running with speed of 10m/s. Find the angle between the with the train velocity which the container should be tilted so that water does not enter the container.

23. The figure below shows a truck moving in +x-direction with a velocity of 20m/s. Rain is falling at some speed with some angle with the vertical. The wall on the truck is 1m high. Person sitting on the truck observes that 2.5m on the left side of the wall is dry. When the truck driver decreases the speed of the truck to half, then only 1.5m distance from the left side of wall is dry. Find the velocity of the rain. Also find the velocity of truck such that both the left side and the right side of the wall are completely wet.

28. A ship steams dues west at a rate of 15km/hr relative to the current which is flowing at the rate of 6km/hr due south. What is the velocity relative to the ship of a train going due north at a rate of 30km/hr. a. 39km/hr b 29km/hr c. 19km/hr d. 49km/hr ANSWERS : 1) A 2) D 3) 15 s, 625m 4) 4 s, going up, ball B, 240m 5) 8 s, going down, ball B, 80m 6) 70m/s 7) C 8) B 9) B 10) i) A ii) B iii) B iv) C 11) i) C ii) C iii) D iv) B 12) 12 min 30 s, 6 min 40s 13) i) D ii) A iii) A iv)A v) B vi) B vii) C viii)C ix)D x)A xi) D 14) i) B ii) A iii) C 15) 200m, 20m/min, 12m/min ,36.5o 16) , 4/3 17) where is the angle with river flow, tmin=160 s 18) 15 , 2.56 hrs 19) 45o 20) C 21) 0o, 60o 22) 120o , 23) , 45o from back side 24) 25)15cos+5sin=12,=59o 26)VFlying Dutch Vtruck = km/hr North, VIn/BP = km/hr North West at 30o with west 27) 7.5 hrs, 150m, 28) A
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