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A train long crosses a bridge which is long in 80 seconds. What is the speed of the train?
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the speed is calculated by dividing the total distance (train length + bridge length) by the time taken.
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The motion of a particle moving along -axis is represented as Identify the correct statement.
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Correct option: C
The particle is at the origin at
Option C is correct. The particle is at the origin at t=2s because substituting t=2 into the equation gives y=0.
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A graph is drawn between velocity and time for the motion of a particle. The area under the curve between the time intervals gives
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Correct option: B
Displacement of the particle
Option B (Displacement of the particle) is correct because the area under a velocity-time graph represents the displacement of the particle.
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Assertion (A) : A body is dropped from height and another body is thrown vertically upwards with a speed . They meet at height .
Reason (R) : The time taken by both the blocks in reaching the height is same.
Reason (R) : The time taken by both the blocks in reaching the height is same.
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Correct option: A
If both Assertion and Reason are true and the Reason is correct explanation of the Assertion.
The correct answer is A because both the Assertion and Reason are true, and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion. Both objects reach h/2 in the same time.
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The displacement of a particle starting from rest (at t=0) is given by . The time in seconds at which the particle will attain zero velocity again, is
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Correct option: B
4
Option B (4) is correct because the velocity is zero when the derivative of the displacement function equals zero, which occurs at t=4 seconds.
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A body starts from rest and travels a distance S with uniform acceleration, then moves uniformly a distance 2 S uniformly, and finally comes to gest after moving further 5 S under uniform retardation. The ratio of average velocity to maximum velocity is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it represents the ratio of average velocity to maximum velocity, calculated using the distances and velocities during different phases of motion.
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Two trains and in lengths are running in opposite directions with velocities and . In what time they will completely cross each other?
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Correct option: B
11 sec
Option B (11 sec) is correct because it correctly calculates the relative velocity and the total distance to find the time taken to cross each other.
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A person travels along a straight road for the first half time with a velocity and the second half time with a velocity . Then the mean velocity is given by
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the average velocity is calculated as the arithmetic mean of the two velocities when the time intervals are equal.
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A bus starts from rest and moves along a straight road with constant acceleration until its speed is . The bus then continues with constant speed . When the bus starts, a car is at a distance behind the bus and is moving with constant speed in same direction as that of bus. Find the distance between the car and the bus at time after the bus started.
(Given and ).
(Given and ).
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it represents the difference between the initial distance, the distance covered by the car, and the distance covered by the bus with constant acceleration.
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A body is moving with uniform velocity of . When the body just crossed another body, the second one starts and moves with uniform acceleration of . The time after which two bodies meet, will be
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because the time is calculated by equating the displacements of both bodies.
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A train is moving with a velocity of . When brakes are applied, it is found that the velocity reduced to in . When the velocity of the train is zero, the distance travelled is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because it is calculated by first finding the deceleration and then using it to find the total distance traveled.
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A train started from rest from a station and accelerated at for 10sec. Then it travels at constant speed for 30 sec and there after it decelerated at until it stopped at the next station. The distance between two stations is
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Correct option: C
750 m
Option C (750 m) is correct because it is the total distance calculated by summing the distances traveled during acceleration, constant speed, and deceleration.
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A ball which is at rest is dropped from a height h metre. As it bounces off the floor its speed is 80% of what it was just before touching the ground. The ball then rise to nearly a height
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Correct option: D
0.64 h
Option D (0.64 h) is correct because the height reached after bouncing is proportional to the square of the velocity, which is 80% of the initial velocity.
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Two stones of equal masses are dropped from a rooftop of height h one after another. Their separation distance against time will
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Correct option: B
Increase
Option B is correct because the separation distance increases with time due to the constant acceleration of gravity.
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Assertion(A): Average velocity can't be zero in case of uniform acceleration.
Reason (R): For average velocity to be zero, a non zero velocity should not remain constant.
Reason (R): For average velocity to be zero, a non zero velocity should not remain constant.
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Correct option: D
If Assertion is false but the Reason is true.
Option D (If Assertion is false but the Reason is true) is correct because average velocity can be zero even with uniform acceleration (e.g., projectile motion), and the reason correctly states the condition for zero average velocity.
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Assertion: In one-dimensional motion of an object, path length comes out to be equal to displacement.
Reason: Direction of object is changed two times.
Reason: Direction of object is changed two times.
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Correct option: C
If assertion is true but reason is false
Option C (If assertion is true but reason is false) is correct because in one-dimensional motion, path length equals displacement only if the direction doesn't change.
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Assertion: An object may have varying speed without having varying velocity.
Reason: If the velocity is zero at an instant, the acceleration may not be zero at that instant.
Reason: If the velocity is zero at an instant, the acceleration may not be zero at that instant.
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Correct option: D
If Assertion is false but Reason is true.
Option D (If Assertion is false but Reason is true) is correct because the assertion is false, while the reason is true.
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Assertion: For a moving object the instantaneous velocity is calculated by the limiting value of its average velocity as the time interval approaches to zero.
Reason: The direction of the average velocity is same as the direction of displacement.
Reason: The direction of the average velocity is same as the direction of displacement.
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Correct option: B
If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
Option B is correct because both the assertion and reason are true, but the reason doesn't explain why the instantaneous velocity is the limit of the average velocity.
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Assertion: For an object in uniform motion, the position-time graph is a straight line inclined to the time-axis.
Reason: In a uniform motion, the acceleration is zero.
Reason: In a uniform motion, the acceleration is zero.
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Correct option: B
If both assertion and reason are true, but reason is not correct explanation of the assertion.
Option B is correct because both the assertion and the reason are true, but the reason (zero acceleration) doesn't directly explain why the position-time graph is a straight line; the constant velocity is the direct cause.
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A particle starts from the origin of coordinates at time t=0 and moves in the x-y plane with a constant acceleration in the y-diretion. Its equation of motion is . Its velocity component in the x-direction is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because the velocity component in the x-direction is constant and can be derived from the given equations of motion.
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A particle moves in a straight line, so that after second the distance from a fixed point on the line is given by . Then
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Correct option: C
the acceleration is negative when .
Option C (the acceleration is negative when t<3 s) is correct because the second derivative of the position function is negative for t<3.
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A stone falls freely from rest and the total distance covered by it in the last second of its motion equals the distance covered by it in the first three seconds of its motion. The stone remains in the air for
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Correct option: B
5s
Option B (5s) is correct because the time is calculated by equating the distance traveled in the last second to the distance traveled in the first three seconds.
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Assertion: An object can have an acceleration even if its speed is zero at a given instant.
Reason: An object was momentarily at rest when reversing its direction of travel.
Reason: An object was momentarily at rest when reversing its direction of travel.
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Correct option: A
Both Assertion and Reason are true, and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion
The correct answer is A (Both Assertion and Reason are true, and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion) because an object can have zero speed momentarily while still experiencing acceleration, such as when reversing direction.
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A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of from the top of a tower of height 30 m. How long will it travel before it hits ground
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Correct option: A
6s
Option A (6s) is correct because it is the positive root of the quadratic equation derived from the kinematic equation of motion.
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A ball is dropped form the building of height simultaneously another ball is thrown up with a speed . The rate of change of relative speed of the ball is
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Correct option: D
0
Option D (0) is correct because the relative acceleration between the two balls is zero, hence the rate of change of relative speed is zero.
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A ball is released from a height above the ground. It takes a time to reach the ground. Where is the ball at the time
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Correct option: C
At a height from the ground
Option C (At a height from the ground) is correct because the distance fallen is proportional to the square of the time, so at half the time, the ball has fallen one-fourth of the total height.
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A stone dropped from a balloon which is at a height h, reaches the ground after t second. From the same balloon, if two stones are thrown, one upwards and the other downwards, with the same velocity u and they reach the ground after and second respectively, then
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it correctly relates the time taken for a stone dropped from a height h to the times taken when thrown upwards and downwards with the same velocity.
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For a motion, relation between position and time is . Find the relation between velocity and acceleration .
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it is derived by differentiating the given equation with respect to time and using the chain rule to relate acceleration and velocity.
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A body is fired vertically upward. At half the maximum height, the velocity of the body is 10m/s. The maximum height raised by the body is
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Correct option: B
10 m
Option B (10 m) is correct because it is the maximum height calculated using kinematics equations, given the velocity at half the maximum height.
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The velocity of a particle as a function of its position is expressed as , where and are positive constants. The acceleration of the particle is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because the acceleration is found by using the chain rule to differentiate the velocity with respect to position and then multiplying by the velocity.
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