Describing Motion

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Describing Motion: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Motion, Rest and Motion, Reference Frame, Reference Point, Motion along a Straight Line, Distance, SI Unit of Distance, Displacement, Uniform Motion, Non-uniform Motion & Position etc.

Important Questions on Describing Motion

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An ant travels from P to Q and then moves from Q to R (as shown in the diagram). Show its resultant displacement in the diagram.

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A person moves on a semicircular track of radius 40 m If he starts at one end of the track and reaches the other end, find the magnitude of displacement of the person.

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A, B and C starts cycling around a circular path in the same direction at same time. Circumference of the path is 1980 m. If the speed of A is 330 m/min, speed of B is 198 m/min and C is 220 m/min and they start from the same point, then after what time interval they will be together at the starting point?

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Suppose you are walking along the circumference of a circular ground and you have followed the same 4 times. What will be your displacement in that case?

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A body is moving along the circumference of a circle of radius 'R' and completes half of the revolution. Then, the ratio of its displacement to distance is 

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A person moves on a semicircular track of radius 40 m. If he starts at one end of the track and reaches the other end, Find the magnitude of displacement of the person.
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A person moves on a semicircular track of radius 40 m. If he starts at one end of the track and reaches the other end, find the magnitude of displacement of the person. 

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A particle moves on a circular path. The ratio of distance covered to displacement, when a particle covers a quarter of the circular path will be 

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A particle is moving in a circle as shown in figure.
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(i) What is the distance travelled by the particle from P to R?
(ii) What is the distance travelled by the particle from P to P?
(iii) Find the dispalcement from R to P.
(iv) Find the displacement from R to R.

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A monkey can climb 3 m in one minute. After half an hour how high can be reached?

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A body travelling with uniform acceleration crosses two points A and B with velocities 20 m/sec and 30 m/sec respectively. Then the speed of the body at mid-point of A and B is

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Akhil walks from A to B to C to D to E. The magnitude of displacement of Akhil is 5 m. What is the distance travelled by akhil?

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An athlete covers three rounds on a circular track of radius 50 m. Calculate total distance and displacement

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A particle moves from point O and take four rounds at the top and return to point A. Then it goes to point P and O' and moves half circle. Find the total distance covered by the particle.
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A walks 10 m due East, then 4 m due North, then 3 m due South and then 5 m due West and then after relaxing for sometime walks a metre southwards. In which direction and distance is he from the starting point?

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Coordinate system is a type of frame of reference.

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To measure position, displacement, acceleration of an object we do not need frame of reference.

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Which of the following can be calculated if a frame of reference is given?

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A frame of reference is a set of coordinates that can be used to determine positions and velocities of objects in that frame.

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What is reference frame?