24.

a) What is uniform circular motion? Find the magnitude and direction of centripetal acceleration in
case of uniform circular motion of an object.
OR
a) Find the magnitude and direction of the resultant of two vectors A and B in terms of their magnitudes
and angle between them. b) A motor boat is racing towards north at 25kmh-1 and the water current in
that region is 10kmh-1 in the direction of 60o east of south. Find the resultant velocity of the boat. (5)
25.
Obtain an expression for the potential energy of a spring and discuss the nature of its variation.
Show that the total energy of the spring is constant in all positions. Show graphically the variation of PE,
KE and TE with distance from the mean position.
OR
a) Answer the following questions with reasons: i) In an elastic collision of two billiard balls, is the total
kinetic energy is conserved during the short time of collision of the balls (i.e when they are in contact)? ii) Is
the total momentum is conserved during the short time of an elastic collision of two balls.
b) Give a brief account of elastic collision in two dimensions. (5)

26.
Two bodies are thrown with the same initial velocity at angles and ( 90o-) with the horizontal.
What will be the ratio of i) maximum heights attained by them and ii) of horizontal ranges? Show that the
path of the projectile is parabolic.
It is easier to pull a lawn roller than to push it. Explain using the resolution of forces.
A body of mass 5 kg is acted upon by two perpendicular forces of magnitude 8 N and 6 N. Find the
magnitude and direction of the acceleration.
A ball is dropped vertically from rest at a height of 12 m. After striking the ground, it bounces to a height of
9 m. What fraction of kinetic energy does it loose on striking the ground?
The Earth moving round the Sun in a circular orbit is acted upon by a force, and hence work must be done
on the Earth by this force. Do you agree with this statement?
Why does a cricket player lower his hands while catching a ball?
Can a simple pendulum experiment be conducted inside a satellite?
(a) State impulse momentum theorem?
(b) A ball of mass 0.1kg is thrown against a wall. It strikes the wall normally with a velocity of 30m/s and
rebounds with a velocity of 20m/s. calculate the impulse of the force exerted by the ball on the wall.
Find expressions for (1) potential energy (2) kinetic energy (3) total energy for an artificial satellite.
State and prove the principle of law of conservation of linear momentum? A particle of mass 0.40 kg
moving initially with constant speed of 10m/s to the north is subject to a constant force of 8.0 N directed
towards south for 30s. Take at that instant, the force is applied to be t = 0, and the position of the particle at
that time to be x = 0, predict its position at t = -5s, 25s, 30s?

a) State Newtons second law of motion. b) A bullet of mass 0.04 kg moving with a speed of 90ms-1 enters a
heavy wooden block and is stopped after a distance of 60cm.What is the average resistive force exerted by
the block on the bullet? (3)

Two trains A and B of length 400 m each are moving on two parallel tracks with a uniform speed of 72 km
h1 in the same direction, with A ahead of B. The driver of B decides to overtake A and accelerates by 1
m/s2 . If after 50 s, the guard of B just brushes past the driver of A, what was the original distance between
them?
A fighter plane flying horizontally at an altitude of 1.5 km with speed 720 km/h passes directly overhead
an anti-aircraft gun. At what angle from the vertical should the gun be fired for the shell with muzzle speed
600 m s1 to hit the plane? At what minimum altitude should the pilot fly the plane to avoid being hit?
A bullet of mass 0.012 kg and horizontal speed 70 m s1 strikes a block of wood of mass 0.4 kg and
instantly comes to rest with respect to the block. The block is suspended from the ceiling by means of thin
wires. Calculate the height to which the block rises. Also, estimate the amount of heat produced in the
block.
A man of mass 70 kg stands on a weighing scale in a lift which is moving (a) upwards with a uniform
speed of 10 m s1 , (b) downwards with a uniform acceleration of 5 m s 2 , (c) upwards with a uniform
acceleration of 5 m s2 . What would be the readings on the scale in each case? (d) What would be the
reading if the lift mechanism failed and it hurtled down freely under gravity?
Define relative velocity of an object w.r.t another. Draw position-time graphs of two objects moving along a
straight line, when their relative velocity is (i) zero and (ii) non-zero.
(a) What do you mean by inelastic collision in one dimension? Show that there is loss of kinetic energy in
inelastic collision. (b) A shot traveling at the rate of 100 ms-1 is just able to pierce a plank 4 cm thick. What
velocity is required to just pierce a plank 9 cm thick?
Passengers are thrown forward from their seats when a speeding bus stops suddenly.
An aircraft executes a horizontal loop at a speed of 720 km/h with its wings banked at 15owhatis the
radius of the loop.
(a) A projectile is fired in air making an angle with horizontal. Show that (i) Its path is parabolic in nature.
(ii) tan = 4H / R where H is maximum height attained and R is the range of projectile.
(b) An aircraft executes a horizontal loop of radius 1.00 km with a steady speed of 900 km/h. Compare its
centripetal acceleration with the acceleration due to gravity
A man weighs 70kg. He stands on a weighting machine in a lift, which is moving (a) Upwards with a
uniform speed of 10m/s. (b) Downwards with a uniform acceleration of 5m/s2 . (c) Upwards with a
uniform acceleration of 5m/s2 . Take g = 9.8m/s2 . What would be the readings on the scales in each case
what would be the reading if the lift mechanism failed and it came down freely under gravity?