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Topic : Distance, Displacement, Avg Speed & Avg Velocity
AMU 11th ENTRANCE
Q 1. If displacement of a particle is zero, the distance covered:
(a) must be zero (b) may or may not be zero
(c) cannot be zero (d) depends upon the particle
Q 2. If the distance covered is zero, the displacement:
(a) must be zero (b) may or may not be zero
(c) cannot be zero (d) depends upon the particle
Q 3. The numerical value of the ratio of displacement to distance is:
(a) always less than one (b) always equal to one
(c) always more than one (d) equal to or less than one
Q 4. The numerical value of the ratio of velocity to speed is:
(a) always less than one (b) always equal to one
(c) always more than one (d) equal to or less than one
Q 5. An athlete completes half a round of a circular track of radius R, then the displacement and
distance covered by the athlete are:
(a) 2R and pR (b) pR and 2R (c) R and 2pR (d) 2pR and R
Q 6. An athlete completes one round of a circular track of radius R in 40 second. What will be his
displacement at the end of 2 minute 20 second?
(a) Zero (b) 2R (c) 2pR (d) 7pR
Q 7. A body displaces through 30 m eastwards and then moves 20 m northwards. The total
displacement is:
(a) 10 13 m (b) 10 5 m (c) 10 7 m (d) 50m
Q 8. A body moves 4 m towards east and then 3 m north. The displacement and distance covered by the
body are:
(a) 7 m, 6 m (b) 6 m, 5 m (c) 5 m, 7 m (d) 4 m, 3 m
Q 9. The location of a particle is changed. What can we say about the displacement and distance covered
by the particle?
(a) Both cannot be zero (b) One of the two may be zero
(c) Both must be zero (d) If one is positive, the other is negative and vice-versa
Q 10. A particle moves with uniform velocity. Which of the following statements about the motion of the
particle is true?
(a) Its speed is zero
(b) Its acceleration is zero
(c) Its acceleration is opposite to the velocity
(d) Its speed may be variable
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Q 11. The magnitude of the displacement is equal to the distance covered in a given interval of time if the
particle:
(a) moves with constant acceleration (b) moves with constant speed
(c) moves with constant velocity (d) none of the above
Q 12. The magnitude of average velocity is equal to the average speed when a particle moves:
(a) on a curved path (b) in the same direction
(c) with constant acceleration (d) with constant retardation
Q 13. Speedometer of an automobile measures:
(a) average speed (b) acceleration (c) instantaneous speed (d) instantaneous velocity
Q 14. A person travels along a straight road for the first half time with a velocity v1 and the second half
time with a velocity v2. Then the mean velocity`v is given by:
v + v2 2 1 1 v2
(a) v = 1 (b) = + (c) v = v1v 2 (d) v =
2 v v1 v 2 v1
Q 15. A person travels along the straight road for half the distance with velocity v1 and the remaining half
distance with velocity v2. Then average velocity is given by:
v2 v + v2 2 v1v 2
(a) v1v2 (b) 22 (c) 1 (d)
v1 2 v1 + v 2
Q 16. A body covers one-third of the distance with a velocity v1, the second one-third of the distance with
a velocity v2 and the remaining distance with a velocity v3. The average velocity is:
v + v 2 + v3 3v1v 2 v 3 v v + v 2 v 3 + v 3 v1 vv v
(a) 1 (b) (c) 1 2 (d) 1 2 3
3 v1v 2 + v 2 v 3 + v 3 v1 3 3
Q 17. A body covers half the distance with a velocity of 15 m s-1 and the remaining half with a velocity of
30ms-1 along a straight line. The average velocity is:
(a) 45m s-1 (b) 22.5 ms-1 (c) 20 m s-1 (d) 24 ms-1
Q 18. A body covers first one-third of the distance with a velocity 20 m s-1, the second one third with a
velocity of 30 m s-1 and last one-third with a velocity of 40 m s-1. The average velocity is nearly:
(a) 28 m/s (b) 38 m/s (c) 18 m/s (d) 8 m/s
Q 19. A body covered a distance of 5 m along a semicircular path. The ratio of distance to displacement
is:
(a) 11 : 7 (b) 12 : 5 (c) 8 : 3 (d) 7 : 5
Q 20. A body starts from rest; what is the ratio of the distance travelled by the body during the 4th and 3rd
second?
(a) 7/5 (b) 5/7 (c) 7/3 (d) 3/7
Q 21. A particle moving in a straight line covers half the distance with speed of 3 m/s. The other half of
the distance is covered in two equal time intervals with speed of 4.5 m/s and 7.5 m/s respectively.
The average speed of the particle during this motion is:
(a) 4.0 m/s (b) 5.0 m/s (c) 5.5 m/s (d) 4.8 m/s
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Q 22. A point moves with uniform acceleration and v1, v2, and v3 denote the average velocities in the
three successive intervals of time t1, t2 and t3. Which of the following relations is correct?
(a) (v1 – v2) : (v2 – v3) = (t1 – t2) : (t2 + t3) (b) (v1 – v2) : (v2 – v3) = (t1 + t2) : (t2 + t3)
(c) (v1 – v2) : (v2 – v3) = (t1 – t2) : (t1 – t3) (d) (v1 – v2) : (v2 – v3) = (t1 – t2) : (t2 – t3)
Q 23. A train covers the first half of the distance between two stations at a speed of 40 km/h and the
other half at 60 km/h. Then its average speed is:
(a) 50 km/h (b) 48 km/h (c) 52 km/h (d) 100 km/h
Q 24. A drunkard is walking along a straight road. He takes 5 steps forward and 3 steps backward and so
on. Each step is one metre long and takes one second. There is a pit on the road 11 metres away from
the starting point. The drunkard will fall into the pit after:
(a) 29 seconds (b) 21 seconds (c) 37 seconds (d) 31 seconds
Q 25. A boy walks to his school at a distance of 6 km with a speed of 2.5 km/h, and walks back with a
constant speed by 4 km/h. His average speed for round trip expressed in km/h is:
24 40
(a) (b) (c) 3 (d) 4.8
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Q 26. A particle is constrained to move on a straight line path. It returns to the starting point after 10
seconds. The total distance covered by the particle during this time is 30 m. Which of the following
statements about the motion of the particles is not correct?
(a) The displacement of the particle is zero
(b) Average velocity of the particle is zero
(c) Displacement of the particle is 30 m
(d) Average speed of the particle is 3 ms-1
Q 27. When a particle moves with uniform velocity, which of the following relations are correct?
(I) Average speed = average velocity
(II) Instantaneous speed = instantaneous velocity
(III) Distance covered = magnitude of displacement
(a) I, II, III (b) I, II (c) II, III (d) I, III
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