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Define instantaneous speed.

Important Questions on Motion

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A car travels half distance with speed 20 m s-1 and next half distance travel with 30 m s-1 the average speed of the car is
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A boy covers a distance of 260 m in 20 s and another distance of 300 m in 20 s. The average speed of the boy is :
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A train moving in uniform  90 km hr-1 is approaching a flag station whose platform is 500 m long. The station master is standing at the centre of the platform. The train starts blowing the whistle when the engine is 1 km away from the near end of the platform and continues blowing the whistle till engine crosses of the platform without stopping. If the speed of the sound is assumed to be 300 ms-1, then the duration for which station master hears the whistle is?
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Abdul, while driving to school, computes the average speed for his trip to be 20 km/h. On his return trip along the same route, there is less traffic, and the average speed is 30 km/h. What the average speed for Abdul’s trip is?
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A car moves in a circle of radius 20 m in 50 s with a uniform speed. Find the speed.
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An object travels 18 m in 3 s and then another 30 m in 5 s. What is the average speed of the object?
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Joseph jogs from one end A to the other end B of a straight 300 m road in 2 min 30 s and then turns around and jogs 100 m back to point C in another 1 min. What are Joseph’s average speeds and velocities in jogging from A to B?
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The distance between two stations is 240 km. A train takes 4 hours to cover this distance. Calculate the speed of the train.
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Is speed a vector quantity?
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Can average speed and instantaneous speed be equal? Explain.

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If a body covers a distance x with speed v1 and then it covers another distance x with speed v2, find the average speed for the whole journey.

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If a body travels for time 't' with speed v1 and then it further travels for time 't' with speed v2, find the average speed.

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An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 42250 km. Calculate its speed if it takes 24 hours to revolve around the earth?
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During a journey of 80 km a train covers first 60 km with a speed of 40 km/h and completes the remaining distance with a speed of 20 km/h. What is the average speed of the train during the whole journey?
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Which of the following relations is correct?
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At a time when it is cloudy, there may be frequent thunder and lightning. You hear the sound of thunder after observing the lightning stroke. Can you answer why this happens? (Speed of sound in air = 346 ms-1).

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If a body covers three equal distances with speeds v1,v2 and v3 then what is the average speed of the body?

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What is the difference between average speed and instantaneous speed?

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Which of the following is not vector quantity?