1.

A cyclist riding the bicycle at a speed of 14√3 m/s takes a turn around a circular road of radius
20√3 m without skidding. Given, 𝑔 = 9.8 m/s2, what is his inclination to the vertical?
(a) 30∘ (b) 90∘ (c) 45∘ (d) 60∘
2. A cyclist bends while taking turn to
(a) reduce friction (b) generate required centripetal force
(c) reduce apparent weight (d) reduce speed
3. A stone of mass 0.3 kg attached to a 1.5 m long string is whirled around in a horizontal circle at a
speed of 6 m/s.The tension in the string is
(a) 10 N (b) 20 N. (c) 7.2 N (d) 30 N
4. A body moves along a circular path of radius 5 m . The coefficient of friction between the surface of
the path and the body is 0.5 . The angular velocity in rad/s, with which the body should move so that
it does not leave the path is (Take 𝑔 = 10 m/s2 )
(a) 4. (b) 3 (c) 2. (d) 1
5. A car is moving on a circular road of diameter 50 m with a speed of 5 m s−1. It is suddenly
accelerated at a rate of 1 m s−2. If the mass of the car is 500 kg , then the net force acting on the car is
500
(a) 5 N (b) 1000 N. (c) 500√2 N. (d) N
√2

6. A body is moving in a circular path with acceleration 𝑎. If its velocity gets doubled, then the ratio of
acceleration after and before the change is
1
(a) 1: 4 (b) 4 : 1. (c) 2: 1. (d) 4: 1
7. A motor car is moving with speed 30 m s −1 on a circular path of radius 500 m . Its speed is increasing
at the rate of 2 m s−2, what will be its resultant acceleration?
(a) 2.5 m s−2 (b) 2.7 m s−2 (c) 2 m s−2 (d) 4.5 m s−2
8. A particle of mass 5 kg moves in a circle of radius 20 cm . Its linear speed at a time 𝑡 is given by 𝑣 =
4𝑡, 𝑡 is in s and 𝑣 is in ms −1. The net force acting on the particle at 𝑡 = 0.5 s
(a) 20√28 N. (b) 20 N
(c) 100 N. (d) 20√26 N

9. A coin placed on a rotating table just slips, if it is placed at a distance 4r from the centre. On doubling
the angular velocity of the table, the coin will just slip when at a distance from the centre equal to
r
(a) 4r (b) 2r (c) r (d) 4
10. A block of mass m is placed on a smooth sphere of radius R. It slides when pushed slightly. At what
vertical distance h, from the top, will it leave the sphere?
R R R
(a) (b) (c) (d) R
4 3 2
11. A particle is moving in a circle of radius R in such a way that at any instant the normal and tangential
components of its acceleration are equal. If its speed at t = 0 is v0 , the time taken to complete the
first revolution is
R R R 2πR
(a) v (b) v (1 − e−2π ) (c) v e−2π (d) v
0 0 0 0

12. A particle is moving on a circular path of 10 m radius. At any instant of time, its speed is 5 m s−1 and
the speed is increasing at a rate of 2 m s−2. The magnitude of net acceleration at this instant is
(a) 5 m s−2 (b) 2 m s−2 (c) 3.2 m s−2 (d) 4.3 m s−2
13. A motorcycle moving with a velocity of 72 km h−1 on a flat road takes a turn on the road at a point
where the radius of curvature of the road is 20 m . The acceleration due to gravity is 10 m s−2. In
order to avoid skidding, he must not bent with respect to the vertical plane by an angle greater than
(a) θ = tan−1(2) (b) θ = tan−1 (6) (c) θ = tan−1(4) (d) θ = tan−1 (25.92)
14. A tube one metre long is filled with liquid of mass 1 kg . The tube is closed at both the ends and is
revolved about one end in a horizontal plane at 2rev/s. The force experienced by the liquid at the
other end is
(a) 4π2 N. (b) 8π2 N (c) 16π2 N (d) 20π2 N
15. A stone of mass 2 kg is tied to a string of length 0.5 m . If the breaking tension of the string is 900 N ,
then the maximum angular velocity, the stone can have in uniform circular motion is
(a) 30rads−1 (b) 20rads−1 (c) 10rads−1 (d) 40rads−1
16. The coefficient of friction between the tyres and the road is 0.25 . The maximum speed with which a
car can be driven round a curve of radius 40 m without skidding is (Take g = 10 m s−2 )
(a) 40 m s−1 (b) 20 m s−1 (c) 15 m s −1 (d) 10 m s−1
17. The banking angle for a curved road of radius 490 m for a vehicle moving at 35 m s−1 is
(a) tan−1 (0.25) (b) tan−1(0.35). (c) tan−1(1). (d) tan−1(0.65)
18. If μs is the coefficient of static friction, the maximum speed vmax with which a vehicle can negotiate
an unbanked curved track having radius R and inclined at an angle θ with respect to horizontal plane
is
tan θ
(a) √Rgta n θ (b) √μs Rg (c) √Rg (d) √ Rg

19. A car of 800 kg is taking turn on a banked road of radius 300 m and angle of banking 30∘. If
coefficient of static friction is 0.2 then the maximum speed with which car can negotiate the turn
safely (g = 10 m/s2 , √3 = 1.73)
(a) 51.4 m/s. (b) 70.4 m/s. (c) 264 m/s. (d) 102.8 m/s
20. A ball of mass 0.5 kg is attached to a string of length 50 cm . The ball is rotated on a horizontal
circular path about its vertical axis. The maximum tension that the string can bear is 400 N . The
maximum possible value of angular velocity of the ball in rad/s is
(a) 20. (b) 1000 (c) 1600 (d) 40
21. A train is moving with a speed of 12 m/s on rails which are 1.5 m apart. To negotiate a curve of
radius 400 m , the height by which the outer rail should be raised with respect to the inner rail is
(Given, g = 10 m/s 2 )
(a) 5.4 cm (b) 4.8 cm (c) 4.2 cm. (d) 6.0 cm
22. If the radius of curvature of the path of two particles of same mass are in the ratio 3: 4, then in order
to have constant centripetal force, their velocities will be in the ratio of
(a) √3: 1. (b) 1: √3 (c) 2: √3 (d) √3: 2
23. A stone of mass 900 g is tied to a string and moved in a vertical circle of radius 1 m making 10 rpm .
The tension in the string, when the stone is at the lowest point is (if π2 = 9.8 and g = 9.8 m/s2 )
(a) 8.82 N (b) 9.8 N (c) 97 N. (d) 17.8 N
24. A coin is placed on a disc. The coefficient of friction between the coin and the disc is μ. If the distance
of the coin from the center of the disc is r, the maximum angular velocity which can be given to the
disc, so that the coin does not slip away, is
μ r μg μg
(a) (b) √μg (c) (d) √ r
√rg r

25. A small block of mass 100 g is tied to a spring of spring constant 7.5 N/m and length 20 cm . The
other end of spring fixed at a particular point A. If the block moves in a circular path on a smorran
horizontal surface with constant angular velocie, 5rad/s about point A, then tension in the spring in
(a) 0.25 N. (b) 1.5 N. (c) 0.50 N (d) 0.75 N
26. A child of mass 5 kg is going round a merry. gn . round that makes 1 rotation in 3.14 s . The radius of
the merry-go-round is 2 m . The centrifugal force rm the child will be
(a) 80 N (b) 50 N. (c) 40 N. (d) 100 N
27. A coin placed on a rotating table just slips when it is placed at a distance of 1 cm from the center. If
the angular velocity of the table is halved, it will just slip when placed at a distance of from the
centre.
(a) 2 cm (b) 1 cm. (c) 8 cm (d) 4 cm
28. A vehicle of mass 200 kg is moving along a levelled curved road of radius 70 m with angular velocity
of 0.2rad/s. The centripetal force acting on the vehicle is
(a) 2240 N (b) 2800 N (c) 560 N (d) 14 N
29. A body of mass 200 g is tied to a spring of spring constant 12.5 N/m, while the other end of spring is
fixed at point O. If the body moves about O in a circular path on a smooth horizontal surface with
constant angular speed 5rad/s. Then the ratio of extension in the spring to its natural length will be
(a) 1: 1 (b) 2: 3 (c) 2: 5 (d) 1: 2
30. A car is moving with a constant speed of 20 m/s in a circular horizontal track of radius 40 m . A bob is
suspended from the roof of the car by a massless string. The angle made by the string with the
vertical will be (Take g = 10 m/s2 )
π π π π
(a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 3
31. A car is moving on a horizontal curved road with radius 50 m . The approximate maximum speed of
car will be, if friction between tyres and road is 0.34 . [take g = 10 m s−2 ]
(a) 3.4 m s−1 (b) 13 m s−1 (c) 17 m s−1 (d) 22.4 m s−1
32. A conical pendulum of length 1 m makes an angle θ = 45∘ w.r.t. Z-axis and moves in a circle in the XY
plane. The radius of the circle is 0.4 m and its center is vertically below O. The
speed of the pendulum, in its circular path, will be
(Take g = 10 m s−2 )
(a) 0.4 m/s
(b) 2 m/s
(c) 0.2 m/s
(d) 4 m/s