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IX CBSE PHYSICS WORKSHEET Motion 1) Use the following information to answer this question.

A truck is moving with a certain uniform velocity. It is accelerated uniformly by 0.75 m/s 2. After 20 seconds, the velocity of the truck becomes 72 km/h.

What is the initial velocity of the truck?

2) A bus starts from rest and travels with a uniform acceleration of 2.5 m/s2. What will be its velocity after eight seconds? 3) Use the following information to answer this question.

A car is moving uniformly on a highway with a velocity of 72 km/h. Suddenly, the driver applies the brakes and reduces its velocity to 9 km/h in 10 seconds.

What is the distance travelled by the car in these 10 seconds?

4) Use the following information to answer this question.


The distances travelled and the times taken by four cars I, II, III, and IV are shown in the given table. Car I II III IV Distance travelled ( km) 85 71 60 91 Time taken (min) 120 100 90 130

Which of the following statements is correct? A. Car IV is slower than car III.

B. C. D.

Car I is faster than car II. Car III is the slowest. Car IV is the fastest.

5) Use the following information to answer this question.

Shivani throws a stone upward with a velocity of 19.6 m/s. The acceleration of the stone in this case is 9.8 m/s2, acting toward earth.

What is the maximum height reached by the stone? 6)

Disha walks around a rectangular garden in such a way that she takes 20 seconds to cover its length and 16 seconds to cover its width. The times taken by her to cover the length and breadth are double the dimensions of the garden in metres.

What will be Dishas displacement after 324 seconds?

7)

A car is moving uniformly on a highway with a velocity of 25 m/s. The driver applies the breaks, thereby uniformly reducing the velocity of the car, as shown in the given table. Velocity (m/s) Time (s) 20 4 15 8 10 12 5 16 0 20

What are the respective values for the cars acceleration and the total distance travelled by it in 20 s? 8) A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly at the rate of 3 m/s2. What is the distance travelled by the car in 12 seconds?

9) A car is moving uniformly with a velocity of 28 km/h. It is accelerated at the rate of 2 m/s2 till it acquires a velocity of 54 km/h. What is the distance travelled by the car during its acceleration? 10)

A car starts from rest and acquires a uniform velocity of 72 km/h. During this while, it covers a distance of 120 metres.

What is the acceleration produced in the car? 11)

In the Beijing Olympic, sprinter Usain Bolt created a new world record by wining the 100 metres race in just 9.69 seconds.

If his acceleration is considered to have been uniform throughout the race, then his velocity at the finishing line was 12)

Akshay is sitting on a Ferris wheel that is moving with a uniform speed of 1.5 m/s. The diameter of the wheel is 100 metres.

After how much time will Akshay reach his initial position? 13)

A geostationary satellite revolves around earth in a special orbit (known as the geosynchronous orbit) in such a way that it takes one day to complete one revolution around earth. This satellite revolves around earth with a speed of 3070 m/s.

What is the approximate radius of the geosynchronous orbit? 14)

The velocities of a car at different intervals of time are shown in the given velocity-time graph.

In which alternative is a line segment correctly matched with the nature of acceleration represented by that line segment in the graph? A. Line segment Nature of Acceleration OP B. Uniform

Line segment Nature of Acceleration PQ Non-uniform

C.

Line segment Nature of Acceleration QR Constant

D.

Line segment Nature of Acceleration RS Constant

15) Use the following information to answer the next question.

The position-time graph of a moving particle is shown in the given figure.

What is the average speed of the particle? 16) Yuvika runs around a square park of width 30 metres. What is the distance travelled by her after she completes five rounds of the park?

17)

Yana starts from her home and moves a distance of four kilometres toward East. She then turns to her right and covers a distance of three kilometres to reach her school. Meanwhile, her brother Nikhil takes a short and direct route to reach the school.

What is the difference between the displacements of Yana and Nikhil?

18)

A man travels two metres toward South, turns to his right, and travels four kilometres toward West. He then moves 4 km toward North, moves to his right, and travels 10 km.

What is the net displacement of the man?

19)

A car is moving with a uniform velocity of 15 km/h. When the driver presses the accelerator, the velocity of the car increases uniformly to 45 km/h in five seconds.

What are the respective values for the average velocity of the car and the acceleration produced in it during those five seconds? 20)

Roy runs over a bridge with a speed of 2 m/s. When he reaches the end of the bridge, he turns and runs back to the starting point with a speed of 4 m/s.

What is the average speed of Roy? 21) A bike is moving with a uniform velocity of 54 km/h. When the rider applies the breaks, it comes to rest in 10 seconds. What is the acceleration produced by the brakes?

22)

Atul throws a stone upward. After reaching a certain height, the stone falls back on the ground. (Neglect air resistance)

Which of the following velocity-time graphs represents the motion of the stone?

A.

B.

C.

D.

Answers:
1. 3. 5 m/s 112.5 m

2. 20 m/s 4. Car III is the slowest

5. 19.6 6. 241
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 1.25 m/s2 and 250 m 216 m 41.13 m 1.67 m/s^2 20.64 m/s 3 min 30 sec 42237 km

14. Option C 15. 3.75 m/s 16. 600 m 17. 0 km 18. 210 towards North East
19. 2 8.33 m/s and 1.67 m/s 20. 2.67 m/s 21. -1.5 m/s^2

22. Option B

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