Speed, Velocity and Acceleration
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
A car moves a distance of 200 m. It covers the first half of the distance at speed and the second half of distance at speed v. The average speed is . Find the value of v

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

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

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

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

The coordinates of a moving particles at any time are given by and . The speed of the particle at time is given by –

The coordinates of a moving particles at any time are given by and . The speed of the particle at time is given by –

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

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

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

The distance travelled by a particle in time, , is given by . If '' is the velocity, then acceleration will be :

An object is moving with variable speed, then

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

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

When the velocity of body is variable, then

A particle moves in plane from positions to in . Magnitude and direction of average velocity is

The speed of light is , then the distance covered by light in nano seconds will be -

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

The velocity time graph of a body is shown in figure.
It implies that at point

The acceleration of a moving body can be found from
