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 Paper-1
1. A student uses a spring gun to launch a steel ball with a constant horizontal velocity. He varies the
height h of the gun and measures the horizontal displacement r of the ball when it hits the ground.

Which graph shows the variation with height h of the horizontal displacement r?

2.6 A car X is travelling at a constant speed u along a straight road. At time t = 0 a second car Y is a
distance d0 behind car X and travelling at a speed v in the same direction. Speed v is less than speed
u.

At time t = 0 car Y begins to accelerate with a constant acceleration.

Car Y overtakes car X at time t = T.
Which graph could best show the variation with time t of the distance d between the cars?
 3.5 A car travels anticlockwise along a horizontal circular road of radius 12 m, as shown.
The car takes a time of 4.0 s to move from position P to position Q.

What is the magnitude of the average velocity of the car for the journey from P to Q?
A 4.2 m s–1 B 4.7 m s–1 C 6.0 m s–1 D 14 m s–1

4.18. A stone is thrown vertically downward from the edge of a cliff with an initial speed of 18 ms-₁.
Just before hitting the ground, it has a final speed of 42 ms-₁. If instead, the stone was thrown
horizontally outwards from the top of the cliff with the same initial speed as before,

What final speed would it have immediately before hitting the ground?

A 24 ms-₁ B 30 ms-₁ C 38 ms-₁ D 42 ms-₁

 5.22. The velocity-time graph above depicts the motion of an object travelling in a straight line.
Which of the following statements is a correct interpretation of the graph?

A During the first 20 s of the motion, the object accelerates and travels in a distance of 200m
B The acceleration of the object increases during the first 20 s to become a maximum when the
velocity is 10 ms-1
C The acceleration of the object when t = 5 s is equal to the acceleration when t = 35 s.
D The object decelerates during the final 20 s of its motion, the most rapid deceleration occurring
at t = 40 s.
6.3. The diagram shows the path of a projectile fired with a horizontal velocity v from the top of a
cliff of height h. Which of the following values of V and h will give the greatest values of the
angle Ɵ

Which of the following values of v and h will give the greatest values of the angle Ɵ?

v/ ms-1 h/ ms-1
A 10 30
B 10 50
C 30 30
D 30 50

7.4. When a rifle is fired horizontally at a target P on a screen at a range of 25m, the bullet strikes the
screen at a point 5.0 mm below P. The screen is now moved to a distance of 50 m and the rifle
again fired horizontally at P in its new position.
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 Assuming that air resistance may be neglected what is the new distance below P at which the
screen would now be struck?
A 5√2 mm B 10 mm C 15mm D 20 mm

8.10. A stone thrown horizontally at a speed of 24 ms-1 from the top of a cliff takes 4.0 s to hit the sea.
What is the height of the cliff-top above the sea and the distance from the base of the cliff to be
the point of the impact?

Height Distance
A 96.0 m 78.5 m
B 78.5 m 116 m
C 78.5 m 96.0 m
D 58.5 m 116 m

9.14. A tennis ball is projected with an initial speed of 10.0 ms-1 at an angle if 30 ms-1 towards the
vertical wall, which is located at a horizontal distance 10.0 m away from the ball. Determine the
final speed of the tennis ball when it hits the wall.

A 1.15 ms-1 B 6.33 ms-1 C 8.06 ms-1 D 10.7 ms-1

10.7 The graph shows velocity-time plots for two vehicles X and Y. The accelerations and distances
travelled by the two vehicles can be estimated from these plots.
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 Which statement is correct?

A The accelerations of X and Y are the same at 2.5 s.

B The initial acceleration of Y is greater than that of X.
C The distance travelled by X is greater than that travelled by Y in the 5 s period.
D The distances travelled by X and Y in the 5 s period are the same.
11.13 An experiment is done to measure the acceleration of free fall of a body from rest.
Which measurements are needed?

A the height of fall and the time of fall

B the height of fall and the weight of the body
C the mass of the body and the height of fall
D the mass of the body and the time of fall
12.21 Two markers M1 and M2 are set up a vertical distance h apart.

A steel ball is released at time zero from a point a distance x above M 1 The ball reaches M 1 at
time t1 and reaches M 2 at time t2 The acceleration of the ball is constant. Which expression gives
the acceleration of the ball?

A B C D

13.24 Which feature of a graph allows acceleration to be determined?

A the area under a displacement-time graph
B the area under a velocity-time graph
C the slope of a displacement-time graph
D the slope of a velocity-time graph

14.36 When a car driver sees a hazard ahead, she applies the brakes as soon as she can and brings the
car to rest. The graph shows how the speed v of the car varies with time t after the hazard is seen.
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 Which graph represents the variation with time t of the distance s travelled by the car after the
hazard has been seen?

15.18 A body falls from rest in a vacuum near the Earth’s surface. The variation with time t of its speed
v is shown below.

Which graph shows the variation with time t of the speed v of the same ball falling in air at the
same place on Earth?
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 16.26 A stone is thrown upwards from the top of a cliff. After reaching its maximum height, it falls past
the cliff-top and into the sea.

The graph shows how the vertical velocity v of the stone varies with time t after being thrown
upwards. R and S are the magnitudes of the areas of the two triangles.

What is the height of the cliff-top above the sea?

A R B S C R+S D R-S

17.25. A car is moving along a straight line. The given graph shows how the velocity v of the car varies
with time t. During which of the given time intervals does the car's acceleration have its greatest
numerical value?
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1838.20 The diagram shows a velocity-time graph for a mass moving up and down on the end of a spring.
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Which point represents the velocity of the mass when at the lowest point of its motion?
 19.29 A twig from a tree drops from a 200 m high cliff on to a beach below. During its fall, 40% of the
twig’s energy is converted into thermal energy.

What is the speed with which the twig hits the beach?
A 35 ms–1 B 40 ms–1 C 49 ms–1 D 63 ms–1

20.39. A body is projected with a velocity of 200ms-1 at an angle of 300 above the horizontal .Time
taken to reach the maximum height
A. 10s B. 15s C. 12s D. 5s
21.6 A mass on the end of a spring bounces up and down as shown, after being released at time t = 0.

Which graph shows how the velocity varies with time?

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 Which graph best represents the variation of the ball’s acceleration a with time t?

23. A body is at rest at time t = 0 and moves with constant acceleration.

Which of the following graphs best represents the variation with time t of displacement s of the
body?

24.6 A car travels along a straight horizontal road. The graph shows the variation of the velocity v of
the car with time t for 6.0 s of its journey.
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 The brakes of the car are applied from t = 1.0 s to t = 4.0 s.
How far does the car travel while the brakes are applied?

A 21 m B 45 m C 67 m D 83 m

25.7 A stone is thrown horizontally from the top of a cliff and falls into the sea some time later. Air
resistance is negligible.
Which graph shows how the vertical component vv of velocity of this stone varies with its
horizontal component Vh of velocity as it moves through the air?

26.10 A stone is dropped from a tall building. Air resistance is significant. The variation of distance
fallen with time is shown by the dashed line.
A second stone with the same dimensions but a smaller mass is dropped from the same building.
Which line represents the motion of the second stone?
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 27.8 The graph shows how a physical quantity varies with time.

Which event could best be represented by the graph?

A the acceleration of a firework rising to a maximum height and falling to the ground
B the acceleration of a skydiver leaving an aircraft, falling, opening a parachute and falling
to the ground
C the speed of a javelin as it leaves an athlete’s hand, falls and sinks into the ground
D the speed of a high jump athlete leaving the ground, jumping over a bar and descending
to the ground

28.7 The graph shows the variation of velocity v with time t for an object.

29.8 The diagram shows a laboratory experiment in which a feather falls from rest in a long evacuated
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vertical tube of length L.

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 The feather takes time T to fall from the top to the bottom of the tube. How far will the feather
have fallen from the top of the tube in time 0.50 T?
A 0.13 L B 0.25 L C 0.38 L D 0.50 L

30.16 A body having uniform acceleration a increases its velocity from u to v in time t.
Which expression would not give a correct value for the body’s displacement during time t ?

31.20 A ball is released from rest above a horizontal surface and bounces several times.
The graph shows how, for this ball, a quantity y varies with time.

What is the quantity y ?

A acceleration
B displacement
C kinetic energy
D velocity
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32.28 A bullet is fired horizontally with speed v from a rifle. For a short time t after leaving the rifle, the
only force affecting its motion is gravity. The acceleration of free fall is g.
 Which expression gives the value of

33.36 The diagram shows an arrangement to stop trains that are travelling too fast.

Trains coming from the left travel at a speed of 50 m s–1.At marker 1, the driver must apply the
brakes so that the train decelerates uniformly in order to pass marker 2 at no more than 10 m s –1.
The train carries a detector that notes the times when the train passes each marker and will apply
an emergency brake if the time between passing marker 1 and marker 2 is less than 20 s.

How far from marker 2 should marker 1 be placed?

34.37 A radio-controlled toy car travels along a straight line for a time of 15s.
The variation with time t of the velocity v of the car is shown below.

What is the average velocity of the toy car for the journey shown by the graph?

35.50 The dotted line shows the path of a competitor in a ski-jumping competition.
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 Ignoring air resistance, which graph best represents the variation of his speed v with the
horizontal distance x covered from the start of his jump at P before landing at Q?

36.57 A ball is released from rest on a smooth slope XY.

It moves down the slope, along a smooth horizontal surface YZ and rebounds inelastically at Z.
Then it moves back to Y and comes to rest momentarily somewhere on XY.

Which velocity-time graph represents the motion of the ball?

37.58 A small glider moves along a friction-free horizontal air track as shown below.
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 At each end of the air track there is a perfectly elastic buffer.
Which graph represents the variation with time t of the velocity v of the glider as it moves
between the two buffers?

38.67 In order that a train can stop safely, it will always pass a signal showing a yellow light before it
reaches a signal showing a red light. Drivers apply the brake at the yellow light and this results in
a uniform deceleration to stop exactly at the red light.
The distance between the red and yellow lights is x.
What must be the minimum distance between the lights if the train speed is increased by 20 %,
without changing the deceleration of the trains?

A 1.20 x B 1.25x C 1.44x D 1.56x

39.81 A boy throws a stone with a horizontal velocity of 10ms–1 from the top of a building. The height
of the building is 8.0m. The stone travels along a curved path until it hits the ground, as shown in
the diagram.
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 How long does it take the stone to reach the ground? (Air resistance can be neglected.)
A 0.61s B 0.80s C 1.3 s D 1.6 s
40.93 A ball is thrown with velocity V at an angle θ to the horizontal.

The acceleration of free fall is g. Assume that air resistance is negligible.

What are the horizontal displacement x and the vertical displacement y after time t?
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1.32 (a) Define

(i) displacement,

………………………….…………………………..……………………………

……..……………............................................................................................... [1]

(ii) acceleration.

..................................................................................................................................

.............................................................................................................................[1]

(b) A remote-controlled toy car moves up a ramp and travels across a gap to land on another
ramp, as illustrated in Fig. 1.1.

Fig. 1.1

The car leaves ramp P with a velocity of 5.5 m s–1 at an angle θ to the horizontal. The horizontal
component of the car’s velocity as it leaves the ramp is 4.6 m s–1. The car lands at the top of ramp
Q. The tops of both ramps are at the same height and are distance d apart.

Air resistance is negligible.

(i) Show that the car leaves ramp P with a vertical component of velocity of 3.0 m s–1.

[1]
(ii) Determine the time taken for the car to travel between the ramps.
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 time taken = ....................................................... s [2]
(iii) Calculate the horizontal distance d between the tops of the ramps.

d = ...................................................... m [1]
(iv) Calculate the ratio

ratio = ........................................................... [3]

[Total: 9]

2.33 A golfer strikes a ball so that it leaves horizontal ground with a velocity of 6.0 m s –1 at an angle θ
to the horizontal, as illustrated in Fig. 1.1.

Fig. 1.1 (not to scale)

The magnitude of the initial vertical component vY of the velocity is 4.8 m s–1.

Assume that air resistance is negligible.

(a) Show that the magnitude of the initial horizontal component vX of the velocity is 3.6 m s–
1
.
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[1]
(b) The ball leaves the ground at time t = 0 and reaches its maximum height at t = 0.49 s.
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 On Fig. 1.2, sketch separate lines to show the variation with time t, until the ball returns
to the ground, of

(i) the vertical component vY of the velocity (label this line Y), [2]
(ii) the horizontal component vX of the velocity (label this line X). [2]

Fig. 1.2

(c) Calculate the maximum height reached by the ball.

maximum height = ...................................................... m [2]

(d) For the movement of the ball from the ground to its maximum height, determine the ratio
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 ratio = ...........................................................[4]
(e) In practice, significant air resistance acts on the ball. Explain why the actual time taken
for the ball to reach maximum height is less than the time calculated when air resistance
is assumed to be negligible.

................................................................................................................................................

......................................................................................................................[1]

[Total: 12]
3.2 (a) The distance s moved by an object in time t may be given by the expression

where a is the acceleration of the object.

State two conditions for this expression to apply to the motion of the object.

1. ......................................................................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................................

2. ......................................................................................................................................

......................................................................................................................................[2]

(b) A student takes a photograph of a steel ball of radius 5.0 cm as it falls from rest. The image of
the ball is blurred, as illustrated in Fig. 2.1.

The image is blurred because the ball is moving while the photograph is being taken.
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3. (a) A stone falls vertically from the top of a cliff. Fig. 2.1 shows the variation with time t of the
velocity v of the stone.

40

v / m s–1

30

20

10

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
t /s

Fig. 2.1

(i) Explain, with reference to forces acting on the stone, the shape of the curve in Fig. 2.1.

...........................................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................................

..................................................................................................................................... [3]

(ii) Use Fig. 2.1 to determine the speed of the stone when the resultant force on it is zero.

speed = ................................................ m s–1 [1]

(iii) Use Fig. 2.1 to calculate the approximate height through which the stone falls between
t = 0 and t = 30 s.

height = ..................................................... m [3]

(iv) On Fig. 2.2, sketch the variation with t of the acceleration a of the stone between t = 0and t =
30 s.

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a / m s–2

15

10

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
t /s

Fig. 2.2
[3]

[Total: 10]
 4. A man standing on a wall throws a small ball vertically upwards with a velocity of 5.6 m s–1. The
ball leaves his hand when it is at a height of 3.1 m above the ground, as shown in Fig. 3.1.

ball
velocity 5.6 m s–1

man

3.1 m
wall

ground

Fig. 3.1 (not to scale) Assume

that air resistance is negligible.

(a) Show that the ball reaches a maximum height above the ground of 4.7 m.

[2]

(b) The man does not catch the ball as it falls.

Calculate the time taken for the ball to fall from its maximum height to the ground.

time taken = ...................................................... s [2]

(c) The ball leaves the man’s hand at time t = 0 and hits the ground at time t = T.

On Fig. 3.2, sketch a graph to show the variation of the velocity v of the ball with time t from t = 0 to
t = T. Numerical values of v and t are not required. Assume that v is positive in the upward direction.

0
0 T
t

Fig. 3.2
[3]

(d) State what is represented by the gradient of the graph in (c).

. ............................................................................................................................................................. [1]

(e) The man now throws a second ball with the same velocity and from the same height as the first ball.
The mass of the second ball is greater than that of the first ball. Assume that air resistance is still
negligible.

For the first and second balls, compare:

(i) the magnitudes of their accelerations

. .................................................................................................................................................... [1]

(ii) the speeds with which they hit the ground.

. .................................................................................................................................................... [1]

[Total: 10]

5.13 A ball is thrown horizontally from the top of a building, as shown in Fig. 2.1
 The ball is thrown with a horizontal speed of 8.2 m s–1. The side of the building is vertical. At
point P on the path of the ball, the ball is distance x from the building and is moving at an angle
of 60° to the horizontal. Air resistance is negligible.

(a) For the ball at point P,

(i) show that the vertical component of its velocity is 14.2 m s–1,

[2]
(ii) determine the vertical distance through which the ball has fallen,

distance = ............................................ m [2]

(iii) determine the horizontal distance x.

x = ............................................ m [2]

(b) The path of the ball in (a), with an initial horizontal speed of 8.2 m s–1, is shown again in Fig.
2.2.
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 On Fig. 2.2, sketch the new path of the ball for the ball having an initial horizontal speed

(i) greater than 8.2 m s–1 and with negligible air resistance (label this path G), [2]

(ii) equal to 8.2 m s–1 but with air resistance (label this path A). [2]
[Total: 10]
6.8 (b) A ball leaves point P at the top of a cliff with a horizontal velocity of 15 m s–1, as shown in
Fig. 2.1
The height of the cliff is 25 m. The ball hits the ground at point Q.
Air resistance is negligible.

Fig. 2.1
The height of the cliff is 25 m. The ball hits the ground at point Q. Air resistance is negligible.
(i) Calculate the vertical velocity of the ball just before it makes impact with the ground at Q.

vertical velocity = ................................................. m s–1[2]

(ii) Show that the time taken for the ball to fall to the ground is 2.3 s. [1]
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(iii) Calculate the magnitude of the displacement of the ball at point Q from point P.
 displacement = ...................................................... m [4]

(iv) Explain why the distance travelled by the ball is different from the magnitude of the
displacement of the ball.

...........................................................................................................................................

...........................................................................................................................................

......................................................................................................................................[2]
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