3 Relative Motion

SECTION - I : STRAIGHT OBJECTIVE TYPE

3.1 A train is standing on a platform, a man inside a compartment of a train drops a stone. At the same
instant train starts to move with constant acceleration. The path of the particle as seen by the person
who drops the stone is :
(A) parabola
(B) straight line for sometime & parabola for the remaining time
(C) straight line
(D) variable path that cannot be defined.
3.2 A man wearning a hat of extended length 12 cm is running in rain falling vertically downwards with
speed 10 m/s. The maximum speed with which man can run, so that rain drops does not fall on his face
(the length of his face below the extended part of the hat is 16 cm) will be :
(A) 7.5 m/s (B) 13.33 m/s (C) 10 m/s (D) zero

3.3 A car starts with constant acceleration a = 2 m/s2 at t = 0. Two coins are released from the car at t = 3
& t = 4. Each coin takes 1 second to fall on ground. Then the distance between the two coins will be :
(Assume coin sticks to the ground)
(A) 9 m (B) 7 m (C) 15 m (D) 2 m
3.4 A man crosses the river perpendicular to river flow in time t seconds and travels an equal distance
down the stream in T seconds. The ratio of man’s speed in still water to the speed of river water will be:
t2  T2 T2  t2 t 2  T2 T2  t 2
(A) 2 (B) 2 (C) 2 (D) 2 2
t  T2 T  t2 t  T2 T t

3.5 A swimmer crosses the river along the line making an angle of 45° with the direction of flow. Velocity of
the river is 5 m/s. Swimmer takes 6 seconds to cross the river of width 60 m. The velocity of the
swimmer with respect to water will be :
(A) 10 m/s (B) 12 m/s (C) 5 5 m/s (D) 10 2 m/s

3.6 Two men P & Q are standing at corners A & B or square ABCD of side 8 m.
They start moving along the track with constant speed 2 m/s and 10 m/s
respectively. The time when they will meet for the first time, is equal to :

(A) 2 sec (B) 3 sec (C) 1 sec (D) 6 sec

3.7 A man in a balloon, throws a stone downwards with a speed of 5 m/s with
respect to balloon. The balloon is moving upwards with a constant acceleration
of 5 m/s2. Then velocity of the stone relative to the man after 2 second is :

(A) 10 m/s (B) 30 m/s (C) 15 m/s (D) 35 m/s

3.8 Three stones A, B and C are simultaneously projected from same point with same speed. A is thrown
upwards, B is thrown horizontally and C is thrown downwards from a building. When the distance
between stone A and C becomes 10 m, then distance between A and B will be :
(A) 10 m (B) 5 m (C) 5 2 m/s (D) 10 2 m/s
3.9 A projectile A is projected from ground. An observer B running on ground with uniform velocity of
magnitude ‘v’ observes A to move along a straight line. The time of flight of A as measured by B is T.
Then the range R of projectile on ground is :
(A) R = vT (B) R < vT
(C) R > vT (D) information insufficient to draw inference.
3.10 Two aeroplanes fly from their respective position ‘A’ and ‘B’ starting at the same time and reach of
point ‘C’ (along straight line) simultaneously when wind was not blowing. On a windy day they head
towards ‘C’ but both reach the point ‘D’ simultaneously in the same time which they took to reach ‘C’.
Then the wind is blowing in :
(A) North-East direction (B) North-West direction
(C) Direction making an angle 0 <  < 90 with North towards West.
(D) North direction
3.11 A particle is thrown up inside a stationary lift of sufficient height. The time of flight is T. Now it is thrown
again with same initial speed v0 with respect to lift. At the time of second throw, lift is moving up with
speed v0 and uniform acceleration g upward (the acceleration due to gravity). The new time of flight is:
T T
(A) (B) (C) T (D) 2T
4 2
3.12 A swimmer crosses a river with minimum possible time 10 second. And when he reaches the other end
starts swimming in the direction towards the point from where he started swimming. Keeping the direction
fixed the swimmer crosses the river in 15 sec. The ratio of speed of swimmer with respect to water and
the speed of river flow is (Assume constant speed of river & swimmer) :
3 9 2 5
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2 4 5 2
3.13 A taxi leaves the station X for station Y every 10 minutes. Simultaneously, a taxi also leaves the station
Y for station X every 10 minutes. The taxis move at the same constant speed and go from X to Y or
vice versa in 2 hours. How many taxis coming from the other side will meet each taxi enroute from Y to
X:
(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 23 (D) 24
3.14 Consider a collection of a large number of particles each with speed v. The direction of velocity is
randomly distributed in the collection. The magnitude of the relative velocity between a pair of particles
average over all the pairs in the collection is :
(A) greater than v (B) less than v (C) equal to v (D) we can’t say anything
3.15 An aeroplane is flying in geographic meridian vertical plane at an angle of 30° with the horizontal (north)
and wind is blowing from west. A package is dropped from an aeroplane. The velocity of the wind if
package hits a kite flying in the space with a position vector R  ( 400 3î  80ˆj  200k̂ ) m with respect
to the point of dropping. (Here î and ˆj are the unit vectors along north and vertically up respectively
and k̂ be the unit vector due east. Assume that the bag is light enough to get carried awya by the wind):
(A) 50 m/sec (B) 25 m/sec (C) 20 m/sec (D) 10 m/sec
3.16 P is a point moving with constant speed 10 m/s such that its velocity vector always maintains an angle
60° with line OP as shown in figure (O is a fixed point in space). The initial distance between O and P
is 100 m. After what time shall P reach O.

(A) 10 sec. (B) 15 sec. (C) 20 sec. (D) 20 3 sec

 SECTION - II : MULTIPLE CORRECT ANSWER TYPE
3.17 A river is flowing with a speed of 1 km/hr. A swimmer wants to go to
point ‘C’ starting from ‘A’. he swims with a speed of 5 km/hr, at an
angle , w.r.t. the river. If AB = BC = 400 m. Then :
(A) the value of  is 53° (B) time taken by the man is 6 min
(C) time taken by the man is 8 min (D) the value of  is 45°
3.18 A simmer who can swim in a river with speed mv (with respect to still water) where v is the velocity of
river current, jumps into the river from one back to cross the river.
(A) If m  1 he can not reach a point on other bank directly opposite to hsi starting point.
(B) If m < 1 he can not cross the river.
(C) If m > 1 he can reach a point on other bank.
(D) He can reach the other bank at some point, whateer be the value of m.
3.19 A man is standign on a road and observes that rain is falling at angle 45° with the vertical. The man starts running on
teh road with constant acceleration 0.5 m/s2. After a certain time from the strt of the motion, it appear to him that rain
is still falling at angle 45° with the vertical, with speed 2 2 m/s. Motion of the man is in the same vertical plane in
wich the rain si falling. Then which of the following statement(s) are true :
(A) It is not possible
(B) Speed of the rain relative to the ground is 2 m/s
(C) Speed of the man when he finds rain to be falling at angle 45° with the vertical, is 4 m/s.
(D) The man has travelled a distance 16 m on the roady by the time he again finds rain to be falling at angle 45°.
3.20 Two stones are thrown vertically upwards simultaneously from the same point on the ground with initial
speed u1 = 30 m/sec and u2 = 50 m/sec. Which of the curve represents correct variation (for the time
interval in which both reach the ground) of
(x2 - x1) = the relative position of second stone with respect to first with time (t).
(v2 - v1) = the relative velocity of second stone with respect to first with time (t).
Assume that stones do not rebound after hitting : 6

(A) (B) (C) (D)

SECTION - III : ASSERTION AND REASON TYPE

3.21 STATEMENT 1 : The magnitude of velocity of two boats relative to river is same. Both boats start
simultaneously from same point on one bank may reach opposite bank simultaneously moving along
different paths.
STATEMENT 2 : For boads to cross the river in same time. The component of their velocity relative
to river in direction normal to flow should be same.
(A) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is True; Statement-2 is a correct explanation for Statement-1.
(B) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is True; Statement-2 is NOT a correct explanation for Statement-1.
(C) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is False.
(D) Statement-1 is False, Statement-2 is True.
3.22 STATEMENT 1 : Three projectiles are moving in differnt paths in the air. Vertical component of
relative velocity between any of the pair does not change with time as long as they are in air. Neglect the
effect of air friction.
STATEMENT 2 : Relative acceleration between any of the pair of projectiles is zero.
(A) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is True; Statement-2 is a correct explanation for Statement-1.
(B) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is True; Statement-2 is NOT a correct explanation for Statement-1.
(C) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is False.
(D) Statement-1 is False, Statement-2 is True.
3.23 STATEMENT 1 : Two stones are projected with different velocities from ground from same point
and at same instant of time. Then these stones cannot collide in mid air. (Neglect air friction)
STATEMENT 2 : If relative acceleration of two particles initially at same position is always zero, then
the distance between the particle either remains constant or increases continuously wiht time.
(A) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is True; Statement-2 is a correct explanation for Statement-1.
(B) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is True; Statement-2 is NOT a correct explanation for Statement-1.
(C) Statement-1 is True, Statement-2 is False.
(D) Statement-1 is False, Statement-2 is True.

SECTION - IV : COMPREHENSION TYPE

Comprehension -1
Two particles ‘A’ and‘B’ are projected in the vertical plane with same intial velocity u0 from point (0, 0)
and (l, - h) towards each other as shown in figure at t = 0.

3.24 The path of particle ‘A’ with respect to particle ‘B’ will be :
(A) parabola (B) straight line parallel to x - axis.
(C) straight line parallel to y-axis (D) none of these.
3.25 Minimum distance between particle A and B during motion will be :
(A) l (B) h (C) l2  b 2 (D) l + h

3.26 The time when separation between A and B is minimum is :

x 2h l 2l
(A) u cos  (B) (C) 2u cos  (D) u cos 
0 g 0 0

Comprehension - 2
Raindrops are falling with a velocity 10 2 m/s making an angle of 45° with the vertical. The drops
appear to be falling vertically to a man running with constant velocity. The velocity of rain drops change
such that the rain drops now appear to be falling vertically with 3 times the velocity it appeared earlier
to the same person running with same velocity.
3.27 The magnitude of velocity of man with respect to ground is :
(A) 10 2 m/s (B) 10 3 m/s (C) 20 m/s (D) 10 m/s

3.28 After the velocity of rain drops change, the magnitude of velocity of raindrops with respect to ground is:
(A) 20 m/s (B) 20 3 (C) 20 m/s (D) 10 3 m/s

3.29 The angle (in degrees) between the initial and the final velocity vectors of the raindrops with respect to
the ground is :
(A) 8 (B) 15 (C) 22.5 (D) 37
 SECTION - V : MATRIX - MATCH TYPE
3.30 Two particles A and B moving in x-y plane are at origin at t = 0 sec. The initial velocity vectors of A and
B are u A  8 î m/s and u B  8 ĵ m/s. The acceleration of A and B are constant and are a A   2 î
m/s2 and a B   2 ˆj m/s2 . Column I gives certian statements regarding particle A and B. Column II
gives corresponding results. Match the statements in column I with corresponding results in Column II.
Columns I Column II
(A) The time (in seconds) at wich velocity (p) 16 2
of A relative to B is zero
(B) The distance (in metres) betwen A and B (q) 8 2
when their relative velocity is zero.
(C) The time (in seconds) after t = 0 sec. (r) 8
at which A and B are at same position
(D) The magnitude of relative velocity of A and B (s) 4
at the instant they are at same position.
(t) 6 seconds

3.31 Both A & B are thrown simultaneously as shown from a very high tower.
Column I Column II

(A) (p) distance between the two balls after

two seconds is 16 5 m.

(B) (q) distance between two balls after 2 seconds is 40 m.

(C) (r) magintude of relative velocity of B with respect of A is

5 5 m/s.

(D) (s) Magnitude of relative velocity of B w.r.t A is 5 2 m/s.

(t) Magnitude of relative velocity of B. w.r.t. A is

5 3 m/sec.
 SECTION - VI : SUBJECTIVE ANSWER TYPE
SHORT SUBJECTIVE
3.32 When two bodies move uniformly towards each other, the distance between them diminishes by 16 m
every 10s. If velocity of each body as before but now the distance between then will decreases 3 m
every 5 s. Calculate the speed of each body.
3.33 During a rainy day, rain is failling vertically with a velocity 2m/s. A boy at rest starts his motion with a
constant acceleration of 2 m/s2 along a straight road. Find the rate at which the angle of the axis of
umbrella with vertical should be changed sothat the rain always falls parallel to the axis of the umbrella.
3.34 A swimmer jumps from a bridge over a canal and swims 1 km upstream. After that first km, he passes
a floating cork. He continues swimming for half an hour and then turns around and swims back to the
bridge. The swimmer and the cork reach the bridge at the same time. The swimmer has been swimming
at a constant speed. How fast does the water in the canal flow ?
LONG SUBJECTIVE
3.35 Two swimmers ‘A’ & ‘B’ one located on one side and other on the another side of a river are situated
at a distance ‘D’ from each other. Line joining them is making an angle  with the direction perpendicular
to flow. The speed of each swimmer with respect to still water is ‘u’ & speed of river flow is vr. Both A
& B start swimming at the same time in the direciton parallel to line AB towards each other and they
keep on swimming in same direction. Then,
(a) Find the time after which they will meet.
(b) Find the speed of river (vr) in terms of ‘u’ so that path of the two swimmers with respect to teh
ground becomes perpendicular to each other.
3.36 Hailstones falling vertically with a speed of 10 m/s, hit the wind screen (wind screen makes an angle 30°
with the horizontal) of a moving car and rebound elastically. Find the velocity of the car if the driver finds
the hailstones rebound vertically after striking.
3.37 An airplane files between two cities separated by a distance D. Assume the wind blows directly from
one city to the other at a speed VA (As shown) and the speed of the airplane is V0 relative to the air.

(a) Find the time taken by the airplane to make a round trip between the two cities (that is, to fly from
city A to city B and then back to City A)?
(b) To an oberver on the ground, find the average speed of the airplane for such a round trip?
(c) To an observer on the ground, find the average velocity for the round trip?