PROBLEMS ON PROJECTILE MOTION [HORIZONTAL AND OBLIQUE]
1. An aero plane moving horizontally at 20 m s-1 drops a bag. What is the
displacement of the bag after 5 second? Given: g = 10 m s-2.
2. A ball is projected horizontally with a velocity of 3 m s-1. What is the velocity of
the ball after 0.4 second? Given: g = 10 m s-2. [Ans. 5 m/sec]
3. From the top of a wall of height 20 m, a ball is thrown horizontally with a speed of 6 m s-1. How far from the wall will the ball land? [Ans. 12.12 m]
4. A projectile is fired with an initial speed of 500 m s-1 horizontally from the top of a cliff of height 19.6 m. At what distance from the foot of the cliff, does it strike the ground? [1000 m]
5. A marble with speed 20 cm s-1rolls off the edge of a table 80 cm high,
(a) How long does it take to drop to the floor? [Ans. (a) 0.404 s (b) 8.08 cm]
(b) How far horizontally from the table edge does the marble strike the floor?
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5. A body of mass m is thrown horizontally with a velocity of 60 km h-1from the top
of a tower of height h. It touches the level ground at a distance of 400 m from the foot of the tower. Now, a body of mass 2m is thrown horizontally with a velocity of 30 km h-1 from the top of a tower of height 4h. At what distance from the foot of the tower would it touch the level ground? Ans. (a) 0.404 s (b) 8.08 cm]
7. A shell is fired horizontally from a gun situated at a height of 44.1 m above a
horizontal plane with a muzzle velocity of 300 m s-1 to hit a target on the horizontal plane, (i) How long the shell take to hit the target? [Ans.(i)3s (ii) 900 m (iii) 29.4m s-1]
(ii) Where is the target situated?
(iii) With what vertical velocity does the shell strike the target? Given: g= 9.8 m s-2.
8. An aero plane is flying in a horizontal direction with a velocity of 360 km h-1 at a
height of 1960 m. How far from a given target should it release a bomb so as to hit the target? Given: g = 9.8 m s-2. [Ans. 2000 m]
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9. A hiker stands on the edge of a cliff 490 m above the ground and throws a stone horizontally with an initial speed of 15 m s-1. Neglecting air resistance, find the time taken by the stone to reach the ground, and the speed with which it hits the ground. Take g = 9.8 ms-2. [Ans. 10 s, 99.1 m s-1]
10. A projectile is thrown horizontally from the top of a tower and strikes the ground after 3 second at an angle of 45° with the horizontal. Find the height of the tower and the speed with which the body was projected. Given = 9.8 m s-2.
11. A projectile is fired horizontally with a velocity of 98 m s-1from a cliff 490 m
high. Calculate (i) time taken to reach the ground
(ii) distance of the target from the cliff
(iii) the velocity with which the projectile hits the ground.
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12. Two paper screens A and B are separated by a distance of 100 m. A bullet pierces A and then B. The hole in B is 10 cm below the hole in A. If the bullet is travelling horizontally at the time of hitting the screen A, calculate the velocity of the bullet when it hits the screen A. Neglect the resistance of paper and air.
13. A projectile thrown from a horizontal plane reaches back the plane after covering a horizontal distance of 40 m. If the horizontal velocity of the projectile is 10 m s-1, then what is its initial vertical velocity? Given: g = 10 m s-2. [Ans. 20 m s-1]
14. A hose lying on the ground shoots a stream of water upwards at an angle of 40° to the horizontal. The speed of water is 20 m s-1 as it leaves the hose. How high up will it strike a wall which is 8 m away? [Ans. 5.4 m]
15. Prove that the maximum horizontal range is four times the maximum height attained by the projectile when fired at an inclination so as to have the maximum horizontal range.
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16. Prove that a gun will shoot three times as high when its angle of elevation is 60° as when it is 30°, but will carry the same horizontal distance.
17. A bullet is fired with a velocity of 10 m s-1 in a direction making an angle of 30° with the vertical. Calculate its time of flight and the maximum height reached by it. [Ans. 1.8 s, 3.8 m]
18. A shell is fired with a speed of 30 m s-1at an angle of 37° with the horizontal. After 1second, the shell is moving at an angle Ø with the horizontal. Calculate Ø. Given: Sin370 = 0.6 [Ans:18.90]
19. A stone is thrown from the top of a tower with velocity 16 m s-1at an angle of 30° with the horizontal. The stone takes 4 second to hit the ground. Calculate the height of the tower and the range of stone. [Ans. 46.4 m, 55.4 m]
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20. The maximum vertical height of a projectile is 10 m. If the magnitude of the initial velocity is 28 m s-1, what is the direction of the initial velocity? Given: g = 9.8 m s-2. [Ans. 30°]
21. A bullet is fired at an angle of 30° to the horizontal with a velocity of 196 m s-1. Calculate the total time of flight, horizontal range and maximum height attained. Given: g = 9.8 m s-2.
22. A projectile is fired from ground level with velocity 500 m s-1 at 30° to the horizontal. Find its horizontal range, the greatest vertical height to which it rises and the time to reach the greatest height. What is the least speed with which it could be projected in order to achieve the same horizontal range? The resistance of air to the motion of the projectile may be neglected. given = 10 m s-2.
