
A hammer weighing moving with a speed of strikes the head of the nail driving it into the wall. The acceleration during impact and the impulse imparted to wall will be respectively.


Important Questions on Force and Laws of Motion
Consider two spring balances hooked as shown in the figure. We pull them in opposite directions. If the reading shown by is , the reading shown by will be

An object of mass travelling in a straight line with a velocity of collides with a wooden block of mass resting on the floor. This object sticks with wooden block after collision and both move together in a straight line.
The total momentum after collision is

An object of mass travelling in a straight line with a velocity of collides with a wooden block of mass resting on the floor. This object sticks with wooden block after collision and both move together in a straight line.
The velocity of the combination of these objects after collision is

Which of the following options is correct?
(i) Force of gravitation on a body is equal to the true weight of the body.
(ii) A person standing in an elevator moving downwards with constant acceleration finds his weight less than actual.




Match column I and column II and select the correct option.
Column I | Column II | ||
(a) | Flight of rockets | (i) | Inertia of direction |
(b) | Function of mud guards over the wheels of a motor bike | (ii) | Inertia of rest |
(c) | Firing a bullet from gun | (iii) | Newton's third law of motion |
(d) | Dust particles fall when a durree is beaten with a stick | (iv) | Law of conservation of linear momentum |
