
A man weighing is standing in a trolley weighing . The trolley is resting on frictionless horizontal rails. If the man starts walking on the trolley with a speed of , then after , his displacement relative to the ground will be

Important Questions on Centre of Mass, Momentum and Collisions


A small ring is rolling without slipping on the circumference of a large bowl as shown below in the figure. The ring is moving down at , comes down to the lower most point and is climbing up at . Let denote the velocity of the centre of mass of the ring. Choose the correct statement regarding the frictional force on the ring.




If the sum of external forces acting on a system is zero, then the centre of mass

In figure and represent the total energy and speed of centre of mass of an object of mass in pure rolling. The object is:

A plank is moving in a horizontal direction with a constant acceleration . A uniform rough cubical block of side rests on the plank and is at rest relative to the plank.
Let the centre of mass of the block be at at a given instant. If , then the normal reaction exerted by the plank on the block at that instant acts at


Four particles and with masses and are at the corners of a square. They have accelerations of equal magnitude with directions as shown. The acceleration of the centre of mass of the particles is:

Two masses and , each of mass are fixed together by a massless spring, A force acts on the mass as shown in figure. If the mass starts moving away from mass with acceleration , then the acceleration of mass will be :



An object of mass is launched from the ground at at an angle of above the horizontal with a speed of At some time after its launch, an explosion splits the projectile into two pieces. One piece of mass is observed at at Find the location of second piece at


Three man and of mass and are standing on a plank of mass , which is kept on a smooth horizontal plane. If and exchange their positions then mass will shift:-





Two masses and are released from rest as shown in figure.
Find the distance travelled by centre of mass in .

