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Laws of Motion
EXERCISES

1. When the electric current is switched off, the blades of fan keep on moving forsome
time. Explain.
2. Action and reaction are equal and opposite. Why cannot they cancel each other?
3. When a body falls on the earth, the earth also moves up to meet it. But the motionof
the earth in not noticeable. Explain.
4. Why does a heavy gun not recoil so strongly as a light gun firing the same bullet?
5. No force is required to move a body with constant velocity. Explain.
6. Two bodies of different masses M and m are falling from the same height. If
resistance offered by the air were the same for both the bodies, then would they
reach the earth simultaneously? Assume M > m.

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7. Is the relation F=ma applicable to the motion of a rocket?
8. It is difficult to run on a polished surface. Explain.
9. Ball bearing is used in machinery. Why?
10. Wheels are made circular. Explain.
11. Polishing beyond a certain limit may increase the friction between the
surfaces.Explain.
12. Sand is thrown on roads covered with snow. Explain.
13. What is the need for banking the tracks?
14. A stone tied at the end of a string is whirled in a horizontal circle when the
stringbreaks, the stone flies away tangentially. Explain.
15. The outer rail of a curved railway track is generally raised over the inner. Why?
16. Why is it difficult to walk on sand?
17. A soda water bottle is falling freely. Will the bubbles of the gas rise in the water
ofthe bottle?
18. It is easier to pull a lawn mower than to push it. Explain.
19. Chinaware and glassware are wrapped in straw pieces and paper pieces
beforepacking. Explain.
20. doneA force of 0.04 N acts upon a body. As a result, the speed of the body changes
from0.30 m/s to 0.10 m/s, in passing through a certain distance. Find the distance
if the mass of the body is 1 kg.
21. doneA particle of mass 0.40 kg moving initially with a constant speed of 10 m/s to
thenorth is subject to a constant force of 8.0 N directed towards the south for 30s.
Take the instant the force is applied to be t = 0, and the position of the particle at
that time to be x = 0, predict its position at t = 5 s, 25 s and 100 s.
22. A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly with 2 m/s2. At t = 10 s, a stone is
dropped out of the window (1m high) of the car. What are the (i) velocity and (ii)
acceleration of the stone at t = 10.1 s? Neglect air resistance, and take g = 9.8 m/s2
23. doneA force produces an acceleration of 16 m/s2 in a body of mass 0.5 kg, and an
acceleration of 4.0 m/s2 in another body. If both the bodies are fastened together,
then how much acceleration will force this produce?
24. doneA stone of mass 1 kg falls from the top of a cliff 50m high and buries 1m deep
insand. Find the average resistance offered by the sand and the time it takes to
penetrate.
25. doneA 40 kg shell is flying at a speed of 72 km/h. It explodes into two pieces, one
pieceof mass 15 kg stops. Calculate the velocity of the other piece.
26. doneA machine gun has a mass of 10 kg. It fires 30 gram bullets at the rate of 6
abulletsper second with a speed of 400 m/s. What force must be applied to the gun
to keep it in position?
27. doneA helicopter of mass 1000 kg rises with a vertical acceleration of 15 m/s2. The
crew and the passengers weigh 300 kg. Give the magnitude and direction of
(i) force on the floor by the crew and passengers,
(ii) action of the rotor of the helicopter on surrounding air,
(iii) force on the helicopter due to the surrounding air. Take g = 9.8 m/s2
28. doneA spring balance in a lift hangs a body of mass 10 kg. What would be the
reading ofthe balance when
(i) the lift is ascending with an acceleration of 2 m/s2
(ii) descending with the same acceleration
(iii) descending with a constant velocity of 2 m/s. Take g = 10 m/s2
29. doneA hammer weighing 1kg moving with a speed of 20 m/s strikes the head of a
naildriving it 10cm into a wall. Neglecting the mass of the nail,
calculate
(i) the acceleration during the impact (ii) the time interval during
impact (iii) the impulse.
30. doneCalculate the values of tension T1, T2 and T3 when
(i) the whole system is going upward with an acceleration of 2 m/s2
(ii) the whole system is stationary.

31. Four blocks of the same mass ‘m’ connected by cords are pulled by a force F on a
smooth horizontal surface.

Determine the tensions T1, T2 and T3 in the cords.

32. doneFind the distance travelled by a body before coming to rest, if it is moving
with a speed of 10m/s and the coefficient of friction between the ground and body
is 0.4.
33. doneA block slides down an incline of angle 30° with an acceleration of g/4. Find
the coefficient of kinetic friction.
34. A mass of 200 kg is placed on a rough inclined plane of angle 30°. If coefficient
oflimiting friction is 1/ 3 , find the greatest and the least forces in Newton, acting
parallel to the plane to keep the mass in equilibrium.
35. A bullet of mass 0.01 kg is fired horizontally into a 4 kg wooden black at rest on
ahorizontal surface. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the block and the
surface is 0.25. The bullet remains embedded in the block and the combination
moves 20 m before coming to rest. With what speed did the bullet strike the block?
36. doneA long-playing record revolves with a speed of 33.33 rev/min. and has a radius
of15 cm. Two coins are placed at 4 cm and 14 cm away from the centre of the record.
If the coefficient of friction between the coins and the record is 0.15, which of the
two coins will revolve with the record?
Hint: µg > rω2
37. Two blocks of mass m1 = 3 kg and m2 = 1/ 3 kg are connected by a light inextensible
string which passes over a smooth peg. The peg is fixed on the top of the wedge.
The planes of the wedge supporting m1 and m2 are inclined at 30° and 60°
respectively with the horizontal. Calculate the acceleration of the masses and the
tension in the string.
38. doneTwo blocks of mass 0.1 kg and 0.2 kg are connected with a mass less string.
These blocks are placed over a smooth surface of inclined plane at an angle of 30°.
A force of 100 N is applied to pull these blocks as shown in figure. Calculate the
acceleration of the blocks.

39. doneTwo blocks of masses m1 = 20kg and m2 = 20 kg connected by a light string

passing over two light, frictionless pulleys rest on smooth 37° inclined plane and
smooth horizontal plane respectively, as shown. Calculate
(i) the acceleration of the system
(ii) the tension in the string and
(iii) the time taken by m1 to move 1 m down the plane.
40. doneTwo bodies A and B of masses 5 kg and 10 kg in contact with each other rest
on a table against a rigid partition. The coefficient of friction between the bodies
and the table is 0.15. A force

of 200N is applied horizontally at A. What are

(i) the reaction of the partition
(ii) the action-reaction forces between A and B? What happens when the partition
is removed?
41. doneDetermine in the given diagram. The acceleration ‘a’ of the system and
tensions T1 and T2 in the strings. Assume that the table and the pulleys are
frictionless and the strings are massless. (g = 9.8 m/s2)