JEE Advanced

PHYSICS

IIT-JEE PHYSICS  K.K. ANAND SMART

ASSIGNMENT : KINEMATICSI
[STRAIGHT LINE METHOD]

1. A plane starts from rest and accelerates along the ground before take off. It moves straight for 600 m in
12 seconds. Find the uniform acceleration, velocity at the end of 10s, distance travelled during the 10 th
second.
2. An object moving at 15 m/s slows uniformly at the rate of 2 m/s2 for 6 seconds. Find (i) Finally velocity
(ii) Average Speed (iii) Average velocity (iv) Distance travelled (v) Displacement Assume straight line
motion.

3. Velocity of a particle moving in a straight line varies with its displacement as V  4  4s m/s. Displacement
of the particle at time t  0 is zero. Find the displacement of the particle after two seconds k at t  2s.
4. A particle makes in a straight line with uniform acceleration ‘a’. If the initial velocity is zero, find the
average velocity of the particle in the first ‘s’ m of distance.
5. Between two stations, a train accelerates uniformly at first, then moves with constant speed and finally
retards uniformly. If the ratios of the time taken are 1:8:1 and the greatest speed is 60 km/nr, find the
average speed for the whole journey.
6. A point moving with constant acceleration from A to B in a straight line has velocities u and V at A and
B respectively. Find its velocity at C, the midpoint of AB. Also show that if one time from A to C is twice
that from C to B, V  7u.
7. A point traveling along a straight line traversed 1/3rd of the distance with velocity V0. The remaining
distance was covered with velocity V1 for half the time and with velocity V2 for the other half of the time.
Find the average velocity.
8. A particle starts from rest and traverses a distance ‘s’ with uniform acceleration and then moves uniformly
with the acquired velocity over a further distance 2s. Findly it comes to rest after moving through a
further distance 3B under uniform retardation. Find the ratio of the average speed over the journey to the
maximum speed.
9. A particle moves along the (+)ve direction of x-axis with a constant acceleration of  4 m/s2. As it passes
the origin, its velocity is 20 m/s. If the time is measured from the instant particle is at the origin, find (i)
Distance x and time, when velocity is zero (ii) At what time is the particle at x  15 m and what is the
velocity then ? (iii) Velocity of the particle at x  25 m and x   25 m (iv) Velocity of the particle at x  55m.
10. A particle moving with uniform acceleration moves 50 m in the fifth second of motion and 100 m in the
10th second of motion. Find the total distance (straight line) covered by it in 20s. Find also the distance
traversed in the 20th second.
11. A particle moving in a straight line with uniform acceleration travels distances s1  24 m and s2  64 m
during the first two equal consecutive intervals of time t  4s for each interval. Find the initial velocity
and the acceleration.

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12. If a particle travels successive equal distances on times t1, t2 and t3 under uniform acceleration along a
1 1 1 3
straight line, prove that    .
t1 t2 t3 t1  t2  t3

13. If s1, s2, s3 are the distances covered by a particles moving with uniform acceleration along a straight line
in the tth1, tth2 and t3th seconds respectively, prove that
(t2  t3)s1 + (t3  t1)s2 + (t1  t2)s3  0.
14. Two cars start off to rate with velocities u4 and u2 and travel on straight paths with uniform accelerations
a1 and a2. If the race ends in a dead heat, prove that the length of the path is 2(u1  u2) (u1a2  u2a1)/(a1
 a2)2.
15. A bullet fixed into a target loses 1/nth of its velocity after penetrating a distance s into the target. How
much further will it penetrate?
16. A particle moves with uniform acceleration ‘a’. If V1, V2 and V3 are the average velocities in three
successive intervals of time t1, t2 and t3 respectively, show that (V1  V2)/(V2  V3)  (t1 + t2)/(t2 + t3).
17. A particle moving with uniform acceleration in a straight line describes in the second of the motion 9/25
of the white distance. If it started from rest, how long was it on motion and through what distance did it
move if it described 15cm in 14cm.
18. A car moves from A to B undirectionally with velocities of magnitude aV, bV and cV for intervals of time
T/a, T/b and T/c respectively for the total path, where T is the total time taken. Find the average speed.

 s s 
19. Prove that for a moving particle with uniform acceleration ‘a’ in a straight line, a  2    /(t + t’)
 t t 
where s is the distance described in t seconds and s’ in next t’ seconds.
20. A distance s is divided inter-equal parts, at the end of each of which the acceleration of the moving
particle is increased by C/n, show that the velocity of the particle after describing the distances is
as (3 1/ n) , where a is the initial acceleration. It starts from rests.

21. A particle starts from rest with acceleration a; At the end of time t, it becomes 2a; it becomes 3a at the
end of 2t, and so on. Find the velocity at the end of time nt, and show that the distance described is n(n
+ 1) (2n + 1) at2/12.
22. A body starts from rest and moves with uniform acceleration. Show that the distance described in the n2
+ n + 1th second is equal to the distance described in the first n seconds together with the distance
described in the first n + 1 seconds.
23. A car, starting from rest, first moves with an acceleration of 5 m/s for sometime and then, after moving
with a uniform speed for some time, starts decelerating at the same rate to come to rest in a total time of
25 seconds. If the average velocity of the car over the while journey is 20 m/s, for how long does it move
with uniform speed?
24. Two railway stations A and B are 50 km apart and are served by electric trains which can accelerate at 3
km/hr per second and decelerate at 5 km/hr per second. The maximum speed is 90 km/hr. There are twelve
intermediate stations all more than a km apart. Find the least time which can be taken to make the journey
from A to B (i) By a fast non-stop train, (ii) By a slow train which steps 0.5 mts at each station.

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25. A sports car passing a police checkpoint at 60 km/hr immediately started slowing down uniformly until
its speed becomes 40 km/hr. It continued to move at this speed until it was passed by a police car 1 km
from the check-point. This police car had started from rest at the check-point, at the same time as the
sports car had passed the check-point. The police car had moved with constant acceleration until it had
passed the sports car. Assuming that the time taken by the sports car in slowing down from 60 km/hr to
40 km/hr was equal to the time that the travelled at constant speed before passed by the police car, find
(i) Time taken by police for to each the sports car. (ii) Speed of police car when it passed the sports car.
(iii) The time measured from the check-point when the speeds of the two cars are equal.
26. Two cars A and B, are traveling in the same direction with velocities VA and VB respectively. When car A
is at distance d behidn car B, the brakes on A are applied, causing a deceleration at the rate a. Prove that
VA  VB < 2ad to prevent collision between A and B.
27. A car accelerates from rest at a constant rate  for sometime after which it decelerates at a constant rate
 to come to rest. If the total time lapse in t second find (i) Maximum velocity reached (ii) Total distance
travelled. [IIT-JEE 1978]
28. A body starts from rest at A and moves with uniform acceleration ‘a’ in a straight line. t seconds later,
second body starts from A and moves with uniform velocity ‘u’ in the same line. If u > 2at, prove that the
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second body will be ahead of the first for a time u (u  2at ) .
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29. Two particles move in a straight line starting at the same moment from the same point. The first moves
with Greatest Velocity u and the second with constant acceleration a. Dring the time that elapses before
the second continues the first, find (i) Greatest distance between the particles (ii) Tone, when this
greatest distance of separation occurs.
30. 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 constant rate . If l be the total distance described, prove that the
l V  1 1
total time taken is t     .
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