Measuring Speed
Author:NCERT
7th CBSE
IMPORTANT
Important Questions on Measuring Speed
HARD
IMPORTANT
A train travelling at a speed of and a bus having an average speed of . Compare the speed of the train with that of the bus.

MEDIUM
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The speed of a racing car is . What will this speed be in ?

MEDIUM
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A bus covers a distance of from Delhi to Jaipur in and returns to Delhi in . If the average speed is then find the value of by rounding off to two decimal places.

HARD
IMPORTANT
Match the two columns:
Column A | Column B | ||
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1. | Odometer | (i) | The time taken by a pendulum to complete one oscillation |
2. | Time period | (ii) | A device used by Romans to measure time |
3. | Sand clock | (iii) | nanosecond |
4. | One second | (iv) | Representation of the speed of different moving bodies |
5. | Distance-time graph | (v) | A unit of time |
(vi) | nanosecond | ||
(vii) | Gives the distance travelled by a moving vehicle |

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IMPORTANT
Every object moves at a constant speed.

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Suppose the two photographs, shown in Fig.1 and Fig. 2, had been taken at an interval of . If a distance of is shown by in these photographs, calculate the speed of the blue car.

