Projectile Motion

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Projectile Motion: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, 2D Motion, Projectile Motion, Final Velocity for a Horizontal Projectile from a Height & Equation of Path of a Projectile etc.

Important Questions on Projectile Motion

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A ball is projected at an angle of 30° above with the horizontal from the top of a tower and strikes the ground in 5 sec at angle of 45° with the horizontal. Find the height of the tower and the speed with which it was projected.

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Two bodies of same mass are projected with the same velocity at an angle 30° and 60° respectively. The ratio of their horizontal ranges will be

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The maximum range of a gun of horizontal terrain is 16 km. If g=10  ms2, then, muzzle velocity of a shell must be

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From a 10 m high building, a stone A is dropped and simultaneously another identical stone B is thrown horizontally with an initial speed of  5m s1. Which one of the following statements is true?

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A bullet is fired horizontally from a gun with a speed of  1000  ms1  in order to hit a target 100 m away. From what height above the target should the gun be aimed? (The resistance of air is negligible and  g=10ms2,u=0 )

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Two guns situated on the top of a hill of height 10 m fire one shot each with the same speed   5 3 m s 1 at some interval of time. One gun fires horizontally and other fires upwards at an angle of   60°  with the horizontal. The shots collide in air at point P. Find the time interval between the firings.

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Two towers AB and CD are situated a distance d apart as shown in figure. AB is 20 m high and CD is 30 m high from the ground. An object of mass m is thrown from the top of AB horizontally with a velocity of 10 ms1  towards CD. Simultaneously another object of mass 2m is thrown from the top of CD at an angle of 60° to the horizontal towards AB with the same magnitude of initial velocity as that of the first object. The two objects move in the same vertical plane, collide in mid-air and stick to each other. Find the position where the objects hit the ground (from B).

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A object is thrown with initial speed 5 ms-1 with an angle of projection 30°. What is the range covered by the particle. (write answer in meter).

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A object is thrown with initial speed 5 ms-1 with an angle of projection 30°. What is the  maximum height achieved by object. (write answer in meter).

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If an object is thrown horizontally with an initial speed 10 ms-1 from the top of a building of height 100 m. What is the horizontal distance covered by the particle?

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A projectile is fired at an angle of 60° to the horizontal with an initial velocity of 800 m/s, find the time of flight of the projectile before it hits the ground.

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From the top of a tower 19.6 m high, a ball is thrown horizontally. If the line joining the point of projection to the point where it hits the ground makes an angle of 45° with the horizontal, then the initial velocity of the ball is

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A body is projected horizontally from a height of 5 m. It reaches the ground at a horizontal distance of 10 m. The speed of the particle when it reaches the ground is g=10 m S-2

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With what minimum speed must a body be projected from the origin in the x-y plane so that it can pass through a point whose x and y coordinates are 30 m and 40 m respectively? Take g=10 m s-2

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The range of a projectile when launched at an angle 15o with the horizontal is 1.5 km. What will be the range of that projectile when launched with the same velocity at an angle 45o to the horizontal?

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The maximum range of a gun of horizontal terrain is 16 km. If g=10  ms2, then, muzzle velocity of a shell must be

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A ball thrown by one player reaches the other in 2 s. The maximum height attained by the ball above the point of projection will be (g=10 ms-2)

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An artillery piece which consistently shoots its shells with the same muzzle speed has a maximum range R. To hit a target which is R2 from the gun and on the same level, the elevation angle of the gun should be

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Two particles are projected from the same point with the same speed u such that they have the same range R, but different maximum heights, h1 and h2. Which of the following is correct?

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Two guns A and B can fire bullets at speeds 1 km s-1 and 2 km s-1 respectively. From a point on a horizontal ground, they are fired in all possible directions. The ratio of maximum areas covered by the bullets fired by the two guns, on the ground is: