
Joseph jogs from one end A to the other end B of a straight road in and then turns around and jogs back to point C in another . What are Joseph's average speeds and velocities in jogging from end A to C?

Important Questions on Motion in One Dimension




A car accelerates from to in . Calculate (i) the acceleration and (ii) the distance covered by the car in that time.

Points P, Q and R are in a vertical line such that PQ=QR. It allows a ball at P to fall freely. What is the ratio of the times of descent through PQ and QR?

Two trains A and B of length each are moving on two parallel tracks with a uniform speed of in the same direction with A head of B. The driver of B overtakes A and speeds up by . If after , the guard of B just brushes past the driver A, what was the original distance between them?

On a two-lane road, a car A is travelling with a speed of . Two cars B and C approach car A in opposite directions with a speed of each. At a certain instant, when the distance AB is equal to AC, both being B overtakes A before C does. What minimum acceleration of car B is required to avoid an accident.
