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TOPIC: Distance & Displacement CLASS:IX(Physics)
Chapter: Motion NAME……………. Worksheet-1
1. A Body moves 6 m north. 8 m east and 10m vertically upwards, what is its resultant
displacement from initial position
(a) 10 2 m (b) 10 m
10
(c) m (d) 10 2m
2
2. A man goes 10m towards North, then 20m towards east then displacement is
(a) 22.5m (b) 25m
(c) 25.5m (d) 30m
3. A person moves 30 m north and then 20 m towards east and finally 30 2 m in south-
west direction. The displacement of the person from the origin will be
(a) 10 m along north (b) 10 m long south
(c) 10 m along west (d) Zero
4. An aeroplane flies 400 m north and 300 m south and then flies 1200 m upwards then
net displacement is
(a) 1200 m (b) 1300 m
(c) 1400 m (d) 1500 m
5. An athlete completes one round of a circular track of radius R in 40 sec. What will be his
displacement at the end of 2 min. 20 sec
(a) Zero (b) 2R
(c) 2R (d) 7R
6. A wheel of radius 1 meter rolls forward half a revolution on a horizontal ground. The
magnitude of the displacement of the point of the wheel initially in contact with the
ground is
(a) 2 (b) 2
(c) 2 +4 (d)
7. A person travels along a straight road for half the distance with velocity v1 and the
remaining half distance with velocity v2 The average velocity is given by
v 22
(a) v1v 2 (b)
v12
v1 + v 2 2v1v 2
(c) (d)
2 v1 + v 2
8. The displacement-time graph for two particles A and B are straight lines inclined at
angles of 30 o and 60 o with the time axis. The ratio of velocities of VA : VB is
(a) 1 : 2 (b) 1 : 3
(c) 3 : 1 (d) 1 : 3
9. A car travels from A to B at a speed of 20 km / hr and returns at a speed of 30 km / hr .
The average speed of the car for the whole journey is
(a) 25 km / hr (b) 24 km / hr
(c) 50 km / hr (d) 5 km / hr
10. A boy walks to his school at a distance of 6 km with constant speed of 2.5 km/hour and
walks back with a constant speed of 4 km/hr. His average speed for round trip
expressed in km/hour, is
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(a) 24/13 (b) 40/13
(c) 3 (d) ½
11. A car travels the first half of a distance between two places at a speed of 30 km/hr and
the second half of the distance at 50 km/hr. The average speed of the car for the whole
journey is
(a) 42.5 km/hr (b) 40.0 km/hr
(c) 37.5 km/hr (d) 35.0 km/hr
12. One car moving on a straight road covers one third of the distance with 20 km/hr and
the rest with 60 km/hr. The average speed is
(a) 40 km/hr (b) 80 km/hr
2
(c) 46 km/hr (d) 36 km/hr
3
13. A car moves for half of its time at 80 km/h and for rest half of time at 40 km/h. Total
distance covered is 60 km. What is the average speed of the car
(a) 60 km / h (b) 80 km / h
(c) 120 km / h (d) 180 km / h
14. A train has a speed of 60 km/h. for the first one hour and 40 km/h for the next half hour.
Its average speed in km/h is
(a) 50 (b) 53.33
(c) 48 (d) 70
15. Which of the following is a one dimensional motion
(a) Landing of an aircraft
(b) Earth revolving a round the sun
(c) Motion of wheels of a moving trains
(d) Train running on a straight track
16. A 150 m long train is moving with a uniform velocity of 45 km/h. The time taken by the
train to cross a bridge of length 850 meters is
(a) 56 sec (b) 68 sec
(c) 80 sec (d) 92 sec
17. A particle is constrained to move on a straight line path. It returns to the starting point
after 10 sec. The total distance covered by the particle during this time is 30 m. Which
of the following statements about the motion of the particle is false
(a) Displacement of the particle is zero
(b) Average speed of the particle is 3 m/s
(c) Displacement of the particle is 30 m
(d) Both (a) and (b)
18. A particle moves along a semicircle of radius 10m in 5 seconds. The average velocity of
the particle is
(a) 2 m s −1 (b) 4 m s −1
(c) 2 m s −1 (d) 4 m s −1
19. A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km away with a speed of
5 km/h. Finding the market closed, he instantly turns and walks back home with a speed
of 7.5 km/h. The average speed of the man over the interval of time 0 to 40 min. is
equal to
25
(a) 5 km/h (b) km/h
4
30 45
(c) km/h (d) km/h
4 8
20. The ratio of the numerical values of the average velocity and average speed of a body
is always
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(a) Unity (b) Unity or less
(c) Unity or more (d) Less than unity
21. A person travels along a straight road for the first half time with a velocity v1 and the
next half time with a velocity v2 . The mean velocity V of the man is
2 1 1 v1 + v 2
(a) = + (b) V =
V v1 v 2 2
v1
(c) V = v1v2 (d) V =
v2
22. If a car covers 2/5th of the total distance with v1 speed and 3/5th distance with v2 then
average speed is
1 v1 + v 2
(a) v1v 2 (b)
2 2
(c) 2v1 v 2 (d) 5v 1 v 2
v1 + v 2 3v 1 + 2v 2
D
23. Which of the following options is correct for the object having a C
straight line motion represented by the following graph
B
t
A
(a) The object moves with constantly increasing velocity from O to O
s
A and then it moves with constant velocity.
(b) Velocity of the object increases uniformly
(c) Average velocity is zero
(d) The graph shown is impossible
24. The numerical ratio of displacement to the distance covered is always
(a) Less than one
(b) Equal to one
(c) Equal to or less than one
(d) Equal to or greater than one
25. A 100 m long train is moving with a uniform velocity of 45 km/hr. The time taken by the
train to cross a bridge of length 1 km is
(a) 58 s (b) 68 s
(c) 78 s (d) 88 s
26. A particle moves for 20 seconds with velocity 3 m/s and then velocity 4 m/s for another 20
seconds and finally moves with velocity 5 m/s for next 20 seconds. What is the average
velocity of the particle
(a) 3 m/s (b) 4 m/s
(c) 5 m/s (d) Zero
27. The correct statement from the following is
(a) A body having zero velocity will not necessarily have zero acceleration
(b) A body having zero velocity will necessarily have zero acceleration
(c) A body having uniform speed can have only uniform acceleration
(d) A body having non-uniform velocity will have zero acceleration
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28. A bullet fired into a fixed target loses half of its velocity after penetrating 3 cm. How
much further it will penetrate before coming to rest assuming that it faces constant
resistance to motion?
(a) 1.5 cm (b) 1.0 cm
(c) 3.0 cm (d) 2.0 cm
29. Two boys are standing at the ends A and B of a ground where AB = a . The boy at B
starts running in a direction perpendicular to AB with velocity v1 . The boy at A starts
running simultaneously with velocity v and catches the other boy in a time t, where t is
(a) a / v 2 + v12 (b) a 2 /(v 2 − v12 )
(c) a /(v − v1 ) (d) a /(v + v1 )
30. A car travels half the distance with constant velocity of 40 kmph and the remaining half
with a constant velocity of 60 kmph. The average velocity of the car in kmph is
(a) 40 (b) 45
(c) 48 (d) 50
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ANSWER KEY
1. a 10. b 18. d 26. b
2. a 11. c 19. d 27. a
3. c 12. d 20. b 28. b
4. a 13. a 29. b
21. b
5. b 14. b 30. c
6. c 15. d 22. d
7. d 16. c 23. c
8. d 17. c 24. c
9. b 25. d
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