PHYSICS

Practice questions
GRADE: 9
Chapter – MOTION

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1) A person throws a ball vertically upwards. It rises to a height of 50 m and comes back to the
thrower,
a) The total distance covered by the ball is zero.
b) The net displacement of the ball is zero.
c) The displacement is 100 m.
d) None of these.

2) A body whose position with respect to surrounding does not change is said to be in a state of:
a) Rest
b) Motion
c) Vibration
d) Oscillation

3)Vector quantities are those which have

a)Only direction
b)Only magnitude
c)Magnitude and direction
d)None of these

4)The value on converting km/h into m/s:

a)5/18
b)5/36
c)5/54
d)5/324
5) In the case of moving body
a) Displacement > Distance
b) Displacement < Distance
c) Displacement>Distance
d) Displacement < Distance.

6) Which of the following is not a characteristic of displacement?

a) It is always positive.
b) It has both magnitude and direction.
c) It can be zero
d) Its magnitude is less than or equal to the actual path length of the object

7) Which of the following situations is true and possible?

a) If the velocity of a body is zero, then the acceleration can be non-zero
b) A body moving at a constant velocity can have acceleration
c) The magnitude of distance and displacement are always equal
d) All of the above

8) What is the correct unit for measuring the acceleration of a moving object?
a) m
b) ms
c) ms-2
d) ms-1

9) The speed of a moving object is determined to be 6 m/s . This speed is equal to

a) 2.16 km/h
b) 21.6 km/h
c) 0.216 km/h
d) 216 km/h

10) The rate of change of distance is called as …………

a) Speed
b) Velocity
c) Distance
d) Displacement

11) What is true about scalar quantities?

a)Scalar quantities only direction.
b)Scalars can have only magnitude
c)They don’t have magnitude and direction
d)Scalars have magnitude and direction
12) Which of the following can sometimes be ‘zero’ for a moving body?
i. Distance travelled ii. Average velocity iii. Average speed iv. Displacement
a) Only (i)
b) (i) and (ii)
c) (ii) and (iv)
d) Only (iv)

13) When a car driver travelling at a speed of 10 m/s applies brakes and brings the car to rest in 20 s,
then the retardation will be:
a) + 2 ms-2
b) − 2 ms-2
c) − 0.5 ms-2
d) + 0.5 ms-2

ASSERTION AND REASONING TYPE OF QUESTIONS :

DIRECTION: In the following questions, a statement of assertion (A) is followed by a statement of

reason (R).
Mark the correct choice as:
a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true, and R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is true but R is false.
d) A is false but R is true

14) Assertion: Displacement of a body may be zero, when distance travelled by it is not zero.
Reason: The displacement is the longer distance between the initial and final positions.

15) Assertion: Acceleration of a moving body is always positive.

Reason: Acceleration of a moving body is the rate of change of velocity.

16) Assertion: Speedometer of an automobile measures the average speed of an automobile.

Reason: Average velocity is equal to total displacement per total time taken.

17) Assertion: Velocity is the speed of an object in a particular direction.

Reason: SI unit of velocity is same as speed.

18) Assertion: An object can have constant speed but variable velocity.
Reason: velocity changes due to change in direction, though speed is same.
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTION

19) Differentiate between distance and displacement.

20) Can the average speed of a moving object be zero? Why?

21) A person moves in a circular path centered at its origin O and having radius 1m. He starts from
A and reaches diametrically opposite point B, then find the distance between A and B and the
magnitude of displacement between A and B.

22) Define uniform acceleration. What kind of a quantity is acceleration?

23) Define non-uniform velocity. What is the acceleration of a body moving with uniform velocity?

24) Differentiate between speed and velocity.

25) A physical quantity is measured as –10 m/s. Is it speed or velocity? Justify.

26) What is the numerical ration of average velocity to average speed of an object when it is moving
in a straight path without changing direction?

27) What do you mean by positive and negative acceleration?

28)Usha swims in a 90 m long pool. She covers 180 m in one minute by swimming from one end to
the other and back along the same straight path. Find the average speed and average velocity of
Usha.

29) The odometer of a car reads 2000 km at the start of a trip and 2400 km at the end of the trip. If
the trip took 8 h, calculate the average speed of the car in km/h and m/s .

30) A bus accelerates uniformly from 54 km/h to 72 km/h in 10 seconds. Calculate the acceleration
in ms-2.

LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTION

31) An object moves along a circular path of diameter 14cm with constant speed. If it takes 2 min
to move from a point on the path to the diametrically opposite point. Find
(a) The distance covered by the object
(b) The speed
(c) The displacement
(d) average velocity.
32)A cyclist moving on a circular track of radius 50m completes one revolution in 4 minutes. What is his
(a) average speed
(b) average velocity in one full revolution?

33)A particle is pushed along a horizontal surface in such a way that it starts with a velocity of 12m/s. Its
velocity decreases at a uniform rate of 0.5m/s2.
(a) Find the time it will take to come to rest.
(b) Find the distance covered by it before coming to rest?

34) A stone is thrown in a vertically upward direction with a velocity of 10 m/s. If the acceleration of the
stone during its motion is 10 m /s2 in the downward direction, what will be the height attained by the stone
and how much time will it take to reach there?

Case study

35) Read the following information and answer the questions based on information and
related studied concepts.

A body is said to have uniform motion, if it travels equal distances in equal intervals of time, no matter how
small these intervals may be. The distance travelled by an object in uniform motion increases linearly.

A train travels from one station to the next. The driver of train A starts from rest at time t = 0 and accelerates
uniformly for the first 20 s. At time t = 20 s, train reaches its top speed of 25 m/s , then travels at this speed
for further 30 s before decelerating uniformly to rest. Total time for the journey of train A is 60 s.

Another train B is travelling in the parallel of train A with zero initial speed at t = 0 and then accelerates
uniformly for first 10 s.

At time t = 10 s it reaches its top speed of 30 m/s , then travels at this speed for further 20 s, before
decelerating uniformly to rest. Total time for the journey of train B is 80 s.

a) What is the deceleration of the train A as it comes to rest?

b) In which time interval, speed of train B is constant?

c) What is the initial speed of trains A and B?

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