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1. Two diamonds begin a free fall from rest from the same height at an interval of 1 s.
How long after first diamond to fall will the two diamonds be 10 m apart? Take g =
10 m/s2.

2. Two bodies are projected vertically upwards from one point with the same initial
velocity ν 0 . The second body is projected t 0 s after the first. How long after will the
bodies meet?

3. A stone is dropped from the top of a tower. When it crosses a point 5 m below the top,
another stone is let fall from a point 25m below the top. Both stones reach the bottom
of the tower simultaneously. Find the height of the tower. Take g = 10 m/s2.

4. A point mass starts moving in a straight line with constant acceleration. After time t 0
the acceleration changes its sign, remaining the same in magnitude. Determine the
time t from the beginning of motion in which the point mass returns to the initial
position.

5. A football is kicked vertically upward from the ground and a student gazing out of the
window sees it moving upwards past her at 5.00 m/s. The window is 15.0 m above the
ground. Air resistance may be ignored. Take g = 10 m/s2.
(a) How high does the football go above ground?
(b) How much time does it take to go from the ground to its highest point?

6. A car moving with constant acceleration covered the distance between two points
60.0 m apart in 6.00 s. Its speed as it passes the second point was 15.0 m/s.
(a) What is the speed at the first point?
(b) What is the acceleration?
(c) At what prior distance from the first point was the car at rest?
(d) Plot graph between s and t and between v and t, starting from rest.

7. A train stopping at two stations 4 km apart takes 4 min on the journey from one of the
station to the other. Assuming that it first accelerates with a uniform acceleration x
and then that of uniform retardation y. prove that 1/x + 1/y = 2.

8. A particle moves along the x-direction with constant acceleration. The displacement,
measured from a convenient position, is 2m at time t = 0 and is zero when t = 10s. If
the velocity of the particle is momentary zero when t = 6s, determine the acceleration
a and the velocity v when t = 10 s.

9. Displacement –time graph of a particle moving in a straight line is as shown in figure.

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s
c

b d
a

O t

(a) Find the sign of velocity in regions oa, ab, bc and cd.
(b) Find the sign of acceleration in the above region.

10. Let us call a motion as: v

M 1 → if velocity and acceleration both are positive.

P Q
M 2 → if velocity is positive but acceleration is
negative. t
R S
M 3 → if velocity and acceleration both are negative.
M 4 → if velocity is negative but acceleration is
positive.
(a) State, in which of the above four motions, magnitude of velocity is increasing and
in which it is decreasing.
(b) v-t graph of a particle moving in a straight line is as shown in figure. The whole
graph is made up of four straight line P, Q, R and S. These four straight lines
indicate four type of motions (M 1 …M 4 ) discussed above. State, which straight
line corresponds to which type of motion.

11. Velocity –time graph of a particle moving in a straight line is shown in figure. At time
t = 0, s = −10m. Plot corresponding a-t and s-t graphs.

v(m/s)

10
6 8 10
t(s)
2 4
-10

12. Velocity –time graph of a particle moving in a straight line is shown in figure. At time
t = 0, s = 20 m. Plot a-t and s-t graphs of the particle.

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V(m/s)

20
4 6 8
t(s)
10 12 14
-20

13. Velocity –time graph of a particle moving in a straight line is shown in figure. In the
time interval from t = 0 to t = 14s, find :
(a) average velocity and
(b) average speed of the particle

V(m/s)

20

10

0 10 12 14
t(s)
2 4 6
-10

14. Acceleration –time graph of a particle moving in a straight line is as shown in figure.
At time t = 0, velocity of the particle is zero. Find:
(a) Average acceleration in a time interval from t = 6 s to t = 12s,
(b) Velocity of the particle at t = 14s.

a(m/s2)

20

10
10 12 14
t(s)
4 6
-10

15. Velocity –time graph of a particle moving in a straight line is shown in figure. At time
t = o, displacement of the particle from mean position is 10m. Find:

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v(m/s)

10
8 10
t(s)
2 4 6
-10

(a) acceleration of particle at t = 1s,3s and 9s.

(b) position of particle from mean position at t = 10s.
(c) write down s-t equation for time interval:
(i) 0 ≤ t ≤ 2s, (ii) 4s ≤ t ≤ 8s

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