Measuring Speed

Author:NCERT
7th CBSE
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Important Questions on Measuring Speed

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A train travelling at a speed of 108 km/h and a bus having an average speed of 30 m/s. Compare the speed of the train with that of the bus.

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The speed of a racing car is 60 m/s. What will this speed be in km/h?

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A bus covers a distance of 250 km from Delhi to Jaipur in 5 h and returns to Delhi in 4 h. If the average speed is X km/hr then find  the value of X by rounding off to two decimal places.

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Match the two columns:

  Column A   Column B
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) 106 nanosecond
4. One second (iv) Representation of the speed of different moving bodies
5. Distance-time graph (v) A unit of time
    (vi) 109 nanosecond
    (vii) Gives the distance travelled by a moving vehicle

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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 10 seconds. If a distance of 100 m is shown by 1 cm in these photographs, calculate the speed of the blue car.

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