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Question 4.1:
The angle between is
(a) 45°
(b) 90°
(c) –45°
(d) 180°
Answer:
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).
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Question 4.2:
Which one of the following statements is true?
(a) A scalar quantity is the one that is conserved in a process.
(b) A scalar quantity is the one that can never take negative values.
(c) A scalar quantity is the one that does not vary from one point to another in space.
(d) A scalar quantity has the same value for observers with different orientations of the axes.
Answer:
A scalar quantity does not depend on the direction.
So a scalar quantity has the same value for observers with different orientations of the axes.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).
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Question 4.3:
Figure 4.1 shows the orientation of two vectors u and v in the XY plane.
which of the following is correct?
(a) a and p are positive while b and q are negative.
(b) a, p and b are positive while q is negative.
(c) a, q and b are positive while p is negative.
(d) a, b, p and q are all positive.
Answer:
On resolving the components of vectors is XY plane, we can see that a, b and p are along positive axes while q is along negative axes.
Hence the correct answer is option (b).
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Question 4.4:
The component of a vector r along X-axis will have maximum value if
(a) r is along positive Y-axis
(b) r is along positive X-axis
(c) r makes an angle of 45° with the X-axis
(d) r is along negative Y-axis
Answer:
If vector r is along positive X-axis then component of a vector r along X-axis will be,
as shown in the figure.
rx will be maximum when cos will be maximum, i.e = 0.or r vector is along positive X-axis.
Hence, the correct answer is option (b).
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Question 4.5:
The horizontal range of a projectile fired at an angle of 15° is 50 m. If it is fired with the same speed at an angle of 45°, its range will be
(a) 60 m
(b) 71 m
(c) 100 m
(d) 141 m
Answer:
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).
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Question 4.6:
Consider the quantities, pressure, power, energy, impulse, gravitational potential, electrical charge, temperature, area. Out of these, the only vector quantities are
(a) Impulse, pressure and area
(b) Impulse and area
(c) Area and gravitational potential
(d) Impulse and pressure
Answer:
Area is treated as vector. Direction of area vector is outward normal to the plane of the area.
Impulse is also vector quantity.
Hence the correct answer is option (b).
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Question 4.7:
In a two dimensional motion, instantaneous speed v0 is a positive constant. Then which of the following are necessarily true?
(a) The average velocity is not zero at any time.
(b) Average acceleration must always vanish.
(c) Displacements in equal time intervals are equal.
(d) Equal path lengths are traversed in equal intervals.
Answer:
In uniform circular motion average velocity can be zero as displacement can be zero and acceleration need not to be zero. Since speed is positive constant then distance covered per unit time is constant.
Hence, the correct answer is option (d).
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Question 4.8:
In a two dimensional motion, instantaneous speed v0 is a positive constant. Then which of the following are necessarily true?
(a) The acceleration of the particle is zero.
(b) The acceleration of the particle is bounded.
(c) The acceleration of the particle is necessarily in the plane of motion.
(d) The particle must be undergoing a uniform circular motion
Answer:
If the path of particle is straight then acceleration will be in the plane either parallel or opposite to velocity.
If the path of particle is curvilinear then acceleration will be in the plane of motion and directed along the center of curvature.
Hence, the correct answer is option (c)
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Question 4.9:
Three vectors A, B and C add up to zero. Find which is false.
(a) (A × B) × C is not zero unless B, C are parallel
(b) (A × B) · C is not zero unless B, C are parallel
(c) If A, B, C define a plane, (A × B) × C is in that plane
(d) (A × B) · C = |A| |B| |C| → C2 = A2 + B2
Answer:
Question is wrong as option (a), (b) and (d) are false and option (c) is true.
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Question 4.10:
It is found that |A + B| = |A|. This necessarily implies,
(a) B = 0
(b) A, B are anti-parallel
(c) A, B are perpendicular
(d) A · B ≤ 0
Answer:
If A and B are anti-parallel provided |B| = 2|A| or B = 0 then |A+B| =|A|
Hence the correct answer is option (b).
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Question 4.11:
Two particles are projected in air with speed v0 at angles θ1 and θ2 (both acute) to the horizontal, respectively. If the height reached by the first particle is greater than that of the second, then tick
the right choices
(a) angle of projection : θ1 > θ2
(b) time of flight : T1 > T2
(c) horizontal range : R1 > R2
(d) total energy : U1 > U2.
Answer:
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Question 4.12:
A particle slides down a frictionless parabolic (y = x2) track (A – B – C) starting from rest at point A (Fig. 4.2). Point B is at the vertex of parabola and point C is at a height less than that of point A. After C, the particle moves freely in air as a projectile. If the particle reaches highest point at P, then
(a) KE at P = KE at B
(b) height at P = height at A
(c) total energy at P = total energy at A
(d) time of travel from A to B = time of travel from B to P.
Answer:
Hence, the correct answer is option (c).
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Question 4.13:
Following are four different relations about displacement, velocity and acceleration for the motion of a particle in general. Choose the incorrect one (s) :
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Answer:
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Question 4.14:
For a particle performing uniform circular motion, choose the correct statement(s) from the following:
(a) Magnitude of particle velocity (speed) remains constant.
(b) Particle velocity remains directed perpendicular to radius vector.
(c) Direction of acceleration keeps changing as particle moves.
(d) Angular momentum is constant in magnitude but direction keeps changing.
Answer:
In Uniform circular Motion, magnitude of particle velocity (speed) remains constant. Particle velocity remains directed perpendicular to radius vector. Direction of acceleration keeps changing as particle moves. Angular momentum is conserved.
Hence the correct answer is option (a), (b) and (c).
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Question 4.15:
For two vectors A and B, |A + B| = A − B is always true when
(a) |A| = |B| ≠ 0
(b) A ⊥ B
(c) |A| = |B| ≠ 0 and A and B are parallel or anti parallel
(d) when either A or B is zero.
Answer:
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Question 4.16:
A cyclist starts from centre O of a circular park of radius 1 km and moves along the path OPRQO as shown Fig. 4.3. If he maintains constant speed of 10 ms–1, what is his acceleration at point R in magnitude and direction?
Answer:
Acceleration at R is centripetal acceleration given by v2/r where v is tangential speed and r is radius.
So, acceleration =100/1000 = 0.1 m/s2 directed towards the centre.
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Question 4.17:
A particle is projected in air at some angle to the horizontal, moves along parabola as shown in Fig. 4.4, where x and y indicate horizontal and vertical directions, respectively. Show in the diagram, direction of velocity and acceleration at points A, B and C.
Answer:
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Question 4.18:
A ball is thrown from a roof top at an angle of 45° above the horizontal. It hits the ground a few seconds later. At what point during its motion, does the ball have
(a) greatest speed.
(b) smallest speed.
(c) greatest acceleration?
Answer:
(a) Just before it hits the ground. Since mechanical energy is conserved, the ball gains kinetic energy as it's potential energy reduces as it falls from height. So, the kinetic energy will be maximum after potential energy gets totally converted to kinetic energy.
(b) At the highest point reached since all the kinetic energy gets converted to potential energy.
(c) a = g = constant since gravity is the only external force acting on the ball and acceleration due to gravity is constant.
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Question 4.19:
A football is kicked into the air vertically upwards. What is its
(a) acceleration, and (b) velocity at the highest point?
Answer:
(a) a = g = constant, since gravity is the only external force acting on the ball and acceleration due to gravity is constant.
This acceleration due to gravity always acts towards the ground.
b) As acceleration acts in opposite to the direction of motion during upward motion, so velocity of the ball goes on decreasing and becomes zero at the highest point.
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Question 4.20:
A, B and C are three non-collinear, non co-planar vectors. What can you say about direction of A × (B × C)?
Answer:
Since B × C is perpendicular to plane of B and C, thus direction of A × (B × C) will lie in the plane of B and C.
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Question 4.21:
A boy travelling in an open car moving on a levelled road with constant speed tosses a ball vertically up in the air and catches it back. Sketch the motion of the ball as observed by a boy standing on the footpath. Give explanation to support your diagram.
Answer:
To the observer standing on the footpath or ground the ball appears to be a projectile and will follow a parabolic path.
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Question 4.22:
A boy throws a ball in air at 60° to the horizontal along a road with a speed of 10 m/s (36 km/h). Another boy sitting in a passing by car observes the ball. Sketch the motion of the ball as observed by the boy in the car, if car has a speed of (18 km/h). Give explanation to support your diagram.
Answer:
The boy standing on ground throws the ball at an angle of 60° with horizontal at a speed of 10 m/s.
The horizontal component of the velocity is given by
The vertical component of the velocity is given by
Speed of the car = 18 km/h = 5 m/s
It is clear that the horizontal component of car and the ball are same.
So the boy in the car will observe the ball going in the upward direction only .
It can be explained in diagram shown below:
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Question 4.23:
In dealing with motion of projectile in air, we ignore effect of air resistance on motion. This gives trajectory as a parabola as you have studied. What would the trajectory look like if air resistance is included? Sketch such a trajectory and explain why you have drawn it that way.
Answer:
If air resistance is included the horizontal component of velocity will not be constant and obviously trajectory will change.
Due to air resistance, particle energy as well as horizontal component of velocity keep on decreasing making the fall steeper than rise as shown in the figure:
​When we are neglecting air resistance path was symmetric parabola. When air resistance is considered path is asymmetric parabola.
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Question 4.24:
A fighter plane is flying horizontally at an altitude of 1.5 km with speed 720 km/h. At what angle of sight (w.r.t. horizontal) when the target is seen, should the pilot drop the bomb in order to attack the target?
Answer:
The plane is travelling in the horizontal direction so the bomb dropped from the plane must have some horizontal velocity which is equal to the plane's horizontal velocity
Horizontal velocity of the bomb initially = 720 km/h= 200 m/s
Let the target is at an angle θ with horizontal.
Height of he plane = 1.5 km = 1500 m
Let t be the time taken by the bomb to hit the target
Horizontal distance travelled by the bomb in time t is given by 200t
Vertical distance travelled by the bomb is given by
The horizontal distance travelled by the bomb is 200t =
Now to calculate the angle with respect to the horizontal direction:
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Question 4.25:
(a) Earth can be thought of as a sphere of radius 6400 km. Any object (or a person) is performing circular motion around the axis of earth due to earth’s rotation (period 1 day). What is acceleration of object on the surface of the earth (at equator) towards its centre? What is it at latitude θ ? How does these accelerations compare with g = 9.8 m/s2?
(b) Earth also moves in circular orbit around sun once every year with on orbital radius of 1.5 ×1011 m . What is the acceleration of earth (or any object on the surface of the earth) towards the centre of the sun? How does this acceleration compare with g = 9.8 m/s2?
Answer:
(a)
radius of the earth = 6400 km = 6400000 m
Time period of Rotation of the Earth about its own axis is given by
centripetal acceleration
Centripetal acceleration is given by
R is the radius of the orbit R= m
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Question 4.26:
Given below in column I are the relations between vectors a, b and c and in column II are the orientations of a, b and c in the XY plane. Match the relation in column I to correct orientations in column II.
Column I | Column II | |
(a) a + b = c | (i) | |
(b) a – c = b | (ii) | |
(c) b – a = c | (iii) | |
(d) a + b + c = 0 | (iv) |
Answer:
As shown in the diagram below in which vectors A and B are corrected by head and tail.
Resultant vector C = A + B
​(Note: a, b , c, A and B are vectors)
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Question 4.27:
If |A| = 2 and |B| = 4, then match the relations in column I with the angle θ between A and B in column II.
Column I | Column II |
(a) A· B = 0 | (i) θ = 0 |
(b) A · B = +8 | (ii) θ = 90° |
(c) A · B = 4 | (iii) θ = 180° |
(d) A · B = –8 | (iv) θ = 60° |
Answer:
(a) A.B = A B cos (90o ) = 0
So (a) matches with (ii)
(b)
So (b) matches with (i)
(c)
So (c) matches with (iv).
(d)
So (d) matches with (iii)
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Question 4.28:
If |A| = 2 and |B| = 4, then match the relations in column I with the angle θ between A and B in column II
Column I | Column II |
(a) |A × B| = 0 | (i) θ = 30° |
(b) |A × B| = 8 | (ii) θ = 45° |
(c) |A × B| = 4 | (iii) θ = 90° |
(d) |A × B| = | (iv) θ = 0° |
Answer:
(a)
So (a) matches with (iv)
(b)
So (b) matches with (iii)
(c)
So (c) matches with (i)
(d)
So (d) matches with (ii)
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Question 4.29:
A hill is 500 m high. Supplies are to be sent across the hill using a canon that can hurl packets at a speed of 125 m/s over the hill. The canon is located at a distance of 800 m from the foot of hill and can be moved on the ground at a speed of 2 m/s; so that its distance from the hill can be adjusted. What is the shortest time in which a packet can reach on the ground across the hill ? Take g =10 m/s2.
Answer:
As the hill is 500 m high,
So, the minimum vertical component of the velocity of packet is,
Also the maximum velocity with which the packet can be thrown is v = 125 m/s.
So, the required horizontal component of the velocity is,
Time to reach the maximum height,
Horizontal distance covered by the packet is,
Hence, the total time taken by the packet finally to the ground is
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Question 4.30:
A gun can fire shells with maximum speed v0 and the maximum horizontal range that can be achieved is .
If a target farther away by distance Δx (beyond R) has to be hit with the same gun (Fig 4.5), show that it could be achieved by raising the gun to a height at least
Answer:
Let us consider for horizontal motion:
(As maximum horizontal range can be achieved only if angle is 45o)
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Question 4.31:
A particle is projected in air at an angle β to a surface which itself is inclined at an angle α to the horizontal (Fig. 4.6).
Figure
(a) Find an expression of range on the plane surface (distance on the plane from the point of projection at which particle will hit the surface).
(b) Time of flight.
(c) β at which range will be maximum.
Answer:
Consider new Cartesian coordinates in which X-axis is along inclined plane OP and Y-axis along OY as shown in the diagram.
Consider the motion of the projectile from OAP.
(a) Range on the inclined plane surface,
(b) Time of flight,
(c)Expression for range, as calculated in part (a) is:
As, is angle of inclination, which is fixed, so:
for maximum range,
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Question 4.32:
A particle falling vertically from a height hits a plane surface inclined to horizontal at an angle θ with speed v0 and rebounds elastically (Fig 4.7). Find the distance along the plane where if will hit second time.
Answer:
After rebound its velocity will be vo, but at an angle with vertical axis perpendicular to the inclined plane.
So, time of flight be,
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Question 4.33:
A girl riding a bicycle with a speed of 5 m/s towards north direction, observes rain falling vertically down. If she increases her speed to 10 m/s, rain appears to meet her at 45° to the vertical. What is the speed of the rain? In what direction does rain fall as observed by a ground based observer?
Answer:
Let unit vector along north direction be and vertically downward be .
and velocity of rain,
Velocity of girl,
Velocity of rain with respect to girl ,
As rain falls vertically downwards, so
When rain falls 45o to the vertical, then vg= 10 m/s and
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Question 4.34:
A river is flowing due east with a speed 3 m/s. A swimmer can swim in still water at a speed of 4 m/s (Fig. 4.8).
(a) If swimmer starts swimming due north, what will be his resultant velocity (magnitude and direction)?
(b) If he wants to start from point A on south bank and reach opposite point B on north bank,(b) what will be his resultant speed?
(c) From two different cases as mentioned in (a) and (b) above, in which case will he reach opposite bank in shorter time?
Answer:
(a) Resultant velocity of swimmer =
(b) (i) If he wants to reach the point directly opposite to him so,
He should swim at an angle
(ii) The result of the speed of the swimmer,
(c) In case (a) time taken by the swimmer to cross the river =
In case (b) time taken by the swimmer to cross the river =
So, the swimmer will cross the river in shortest time in case (a)
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Question 4.35:
A cricket fielder can throw the cricket ball with a speed v0. If he throws the ball while running with speed u at an angle θ to the horizontal, find
(a) the effective angle to the horizontal at which the ball is projected in air as seen by a spectator.
(b) what will be time of flight?
(c) what is the distance (horizontal range) from the point of projection at which the ball will land?
(d) find θ at which he should throw the ball that would maximise the horizontal range as found in (iii).
(e) how does θ for maximum range change if u > v0, u = v0, u < v0?
(f) how does θ in (v) compare with that for u = 0 (i.e.45°)?
Answer:
(a) Let initial horizonal and vertical component of velocity along x-axis and y-axis respectively as,
(b) Time of flight,
(c) Horizontal range along x-axis,
(d) Horizontal range to be maximum if,
(e) For u = v0,
For u << v0
For u >> v0
(f) for u = 0
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Question 4.36:
Motion in two dimensions, in a plane can be studied by expressing position, velocity and acceleration as vectors in Cartesian co-ordinates are unit vector along x and y directions, respectively and Ax and Ay are corresponding components of A (Fig. 4.9). Motion can also be studied by expressing vectors in circular polar co-ordinates as are unit vectors along direction in which ‘r’ and ‘θ’ are increasing.
(a) Express in terms of .
(b) Show that both are unit vectors and are perpendicular to each other.
(c) Show that where
(d) For a particle moving along a spiral given by , where a = 1 (unit), find dimensions of ‘a’.
(e) Find velocity and acceleration in polar vector representation for particle moving along spiral described in (d) above.
Answer:
Ans.
(a) =
=
So , =
=
(b) | | = = 1
| | = = 1
Hence , are perpendicular to each other .
(c)
(d)
= dimensionless
= dimensionless
So, dimensions of = dimensions of a = [L]
(e)
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Question 4.37:
A man wants to reach from A to the opposite corner of the square C (Fig. 4.10). The sides of the square are 100 m. A central square of 50 m × 50 m is filled with sand. Outside this square, he can walk at a speed 1 m/s. In the central square, he can walk only at a speed of v m/s (v < 1). What is smallest value of v for which he can reach faster via a straight path through the sand than any path in the square outside the sand?
Answer:
Time taken by the man via sand on the path APQC, be
The shortest path outside the sand will BE ARC. Time to cover this path will be,
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