Assignment of One Dimensional Motion

Take m/s2 unless otherwise specified.

1)
(a) Can a body have zero velocity and still be accelerating?
(b) Can a body have constant speed and still have a varying velocity?
(c) Can a body have constant velocity and still have varying speed?

2) Can body have an eastward velocity while experiencing a westward acceleration?

3) Can the direction of velocity of a body change when its acceleration is constant?
4) Can a body be increasing in speed as its acceleration decreases?
5) Of the following situations which one is/are impossible
(a) A body having zero velocity but acceleration not zero
(b) A body having constant acceleration and varying velocity
(c) A body having constant velocity and variable acceleration
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6) A rocket ship in free space moves with constant acceleration equal to 9.8 m/s
a) If it starts from rest, how long will it take to acquire a speed one-tenth that of light?
b) How far will it travel in doing so?

7) While thinking of Isaac Newton, a person standing on a bridge overlooking a highway inadvertently
drops an apple over the railing just as the front end of a truck passes directly below the railing. If the
vehicle is moving at 55 km/h and is 12 m long, how far above the truck must the railing be if the apple
just misses hitting the rear end of the truck?

8) A balloon is ascending at the rate of 12 m/s at a height 80 m above the ground when a package is
dropped. How long does it take the package to reach the ground?

9) An object, initially at rest, is subjected to a uniform acceleration. If it covers a distance of 13 m during

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the 7 second of its motion, find its acceleration.

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10) A particle is moving with uniform acceleration. In the 8 and 13 second after starting it moves
through 8 and 7 meters respectively. Find its initial velocity and its acceleration.

11) A car moving with constant acceleration covers the distance between two points 60 m apart in 6 s. Its
speed as it passes the second point is 15 m/s
a) What is its speed at the first point?
b) What it its acceleration?
c) At what prior distance from the first point was the car at rest?.

12) A stone is dropped into the water from a bridge 40 m above the water. Another stone is thrown
vertically down 1 s after the first is dropped. Both stones strike the water at the same time.
a) What was the initial speed of the second stone?
b) Plot speed versus time on a graph for each stone, taking zero time as the instant the first stone
was released.
13) A test rocket fired vertically was observed to have a constant acceleration of 2g during the burning of
the rocket motor, which lasted for 50 seconds. Neglecting air resistance and variation of g with
altitude,
a) Draw v versus t diagram for the entire flight of the rocket.
b) Calculate the maximum height attained.
c) Calculate the total elapsed time from the firing of the rocket to its return to earth.

14) If a body travels half its total path in the last second of its fall from rest, find the time of its fall

15) Two cars travelling toward each other on a straight road at velocity 10 m/s and 12 m/s respectively.
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When they are 150 m apart, both drivers apply their brakes and each car decelerates at 2 m/s until it
stops. How far apart will they be when they stop?

16) The journey from port A to port B (on an open sea and along a straight line) lasts exactly 12 days.
Every mid day a steamer sets out from A for B and another from B for A. If you travel on one of the
steamers from port A to port B, how many steamers, coming from port B will you meet during the
journey?

17) A particle is projected vertically upwards from a point X on the ground. It takes time t1 to reach a point
A at a height h above the ground. It continues to move and takes further time t2 to reach the ground.
Find

a) the height h
b) the maximum height reached, and
c) the velocity of the particle at half the maximum height

18) Two trains, each having a speed of 40 km/h are headed for each other on a straight track. A bird that
flies at 60 km/h takes off from the front of one train when they are 80 km apart and heads directly, in a
straight line, for the other train. On reaching the other train it immediately flies back to the first train,
and so forth.
a) What is the total distance the bird travels?
b) How many trips can the bird make from one train to the other before they crash?
Explain.

19) A man standing near a window opening out onto a garden sees a flowerpot sail up and
then back past the window 1.5 m high. The path of the flowerpot is a straight vertical
line. He sees the pot when it is directly in front of the window during its motion. See
figure. If the total time the pot is in sight is 1.0 s, find the height above the window that
the pot rises.

20) A body is placed on a wedge forming an angle with the horizontal. What
acceleration should be imparted to the wedge (along the ground) so that the body
falls freely.
21) Two steel balls freely drop onto an elastic plate, the first one from a height cm and the
second after some time (seconds) after the first from height cm. After a certain time the
velocities of the balls coincide in magnitude and direction. Find the time and the interval of time
during which the velocities of the balls remain the same. The balls do not collide. Elastic collision
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means that the balls rebound without loss of speed. Take m/s .

Answers

(1) (a) Yes (b) Yes (c) No (2) Yes (3) Yes (4) Yes (5) (c) is impossible (6) (a) 3.0  10 sec (b) 4.4  10
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(7) 3 m (8) 5.4 s (9) 2 m/s (10) (a) 9.5 m/s (b) -0.2 m/s

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(11) (a) 5/3 m/s (b) 5 m/s (c) 7.5 m (12) (a) 12.4 m (13) (b) 75 km (c) 150 + 15000 s (14) 2+√2 s
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(15) 89 m (16) 23 (17) (a) gt1t2 /2 (b) g(t1+t2) /8 (c) g(t1+t2) /2√2 (18) (a) 60 km (b) infinite (19) 1.25 cm

(20) (21) s, s