Speed, Velocity and Acceleration

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Speed, Velocity and Acceleration: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Average Velocity, Average Velocity when Time Intervals Given, Distance - Time Graphs & Velocity - Time Graphs etc.

Important Questions on Speed, Velocity and Acceleration

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A car moves a distance of 200 m. It covers the first half of the distance at speed   40 km hr  and the second half of distance at speed v. The average speed is   48 km hr . Find the value of v

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A particle covers half of its total distance with speed  v 1 and the rest half distance with speed v 2. Its average speed during the complete journey is

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A body is moving with velocity   30 m s  towards east. After 10 seconds its velocity becomes   40 m s  towards north. The average acceleration of the body is

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A car covers the first half of the distance between two places at  40kmh  and other half at  60kmh . The average speed of the car is

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A car moves from X to Y with a uniform speed  v u and returns to X with a uniform speed v d . The average speed for this round trip is

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The coordinates of a moving particles at any time t are given by   x=α t 3 and y=β t 3 . The speed of the particle at time t is given by –

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The coordinates of a moving particles at any time t are given by   x=α t 3 and y=β t 3 . The speed of the particle at time t is given by –

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In 1.0 s, a particle goes from point A to point B, moving in a semicircle of radius 1.0 m (see figure). The magnitude of the average velocity is

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For the given acceleration-time graph, corresponding velocity-time graph will be: (initial velocity=-6ms-1)

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The relation between position x and time t are given below for a particle moving along a straight line. Which of the following equation represents uniformly accelerated motion? [where α and β are positive constants]

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The distance x travelled by a particle in time, t, is given by t=4x2+5x. If 'v' is the velocity, then acceleration will be :

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An object is moving with variable speed, then

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If a particle is moving along straight line with increasing speed, then

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A body is moving with variable acceleration (a) along a straight line. The average acceleration of body in time interval t1 to t2 is

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When the velocity of body is variable, then

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A particle moves in xy-plane from positions 2m, 4m to 6m, 8m in 2 s. Magnitude and direction of average velocity is

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The speed of light is 3.0×108 m s-1, then the distance covered by light in 2.00 nano seconds will be -

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A boy starts from a point A, travels to a point B at a distance of 3 km from A and returns to A. If he takes two hours to do so, his speed is

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The velocity time graph of a body is shown in figure.

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It implies that at point B

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The acceleration of a moving body can be found from