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Level: Tough
Marks: 30
Each question : (+3,‐1)
Time allotted: 45 minutes
By Ambarish Srivastava (http://askambarish.blogspot.com)
Q1. Two cars start off to race with initial velocities 4 m/s and 2 m/s and travel in straight line with
uniform accelerations 1 m/s2 and 2 m/s2 respectively. If they reach the final point at the same
instant, then the length of the path is :
(A) 30m (B) 32m (C) 20m (D) 24m
Q2 The trajectory of a projectile in a vertical plane is y = ax – bx2, where a and b are constants and x and
y are respectively horizontal and vertical distance of the projectile from the point of projection. The
maximum height attained by the particle and the angle of projection from the horizontal are
b2 a2
(A) , tan 1 b (B) , tan 1 2a
2a b
a2 2a 2
(C) , tan 1 a (D) , tan 1 a
4b b
Q3. A glass wind screen whose inclination with the vertical can be changed in mounted on a car. The car
moves horizontally with a speed of 2 m/s. At what angle with the vertical should the wind screen
be placed so that the rain drops so that the rain drops falling vertically downwards with velocity 6
m/s strike the wind screen perpendicularly.
(A) tan–1(1/3) (B) tan–1(3) (C) cos–1(3) (D) sin–1(1/3)
Q4. In a car race car A takes t0 time less to finish than car B and passes the finishing point with a velocity
v0 more than car B. The cars start from rest and travel with constant accelerations a1 and a2. Then
v0
the ratio is equal to :
t0
a12 a1 a 2 a 22
(A) (B) (C) a1a 2 (D)
a2 2 a1
Q5. If the system in the figure is released from rest in the configuration shown, find the
velocity of the block Q after it has fallen through a distance 10 metres, given mass
of P = mass of Q = 10 kg
(A) 8 m/sec (B) 8.85 m/sec A
P
(C) 9.5 m/sec (D) 10 m/sec
Q
Q6. If the surface is smooth, the acceleration of the block m2 will be
m2 g 2m2 g m1
(A) (B)
4m1 m2 4m1 m2
2m1 g 2m1 g
(C) (D)
m1 4m2 m1 m2 m2
Q7 A 40kg slab rests on a frictionless floor. A 10 kg block rests on the
top of the slab. The coefficient of friction is 0.4. The 10 kg block is
acted upon by a horizontal force 100N. If g = 9.8m/s2 the resulting 100 N 10kg
acceleration of the slab will be: 40kg
(A) 0.98 m/s2 (B) 1.97 m/s2
(C) 1.52 m/s2 (D) 6.1 m/s2
Q8. A simple pendulum of mass 0.5 kg, during its swing in the vertical
600 1m
plane, is observed to have an angular velocity of 2 rad/s in the
position shown. The instantaneous tension in the string is (g = 10
m/s2) 2 rad/sec.
(A) 2.5 N (B) 4 N
(C) 4.5 N (D) 5 N
Q9. Two springs A and B (kA = 2kB) are stretched by applying forces of equal magnitudes at the four ends.
If the energy stored in A is E, that in B is :
(A) E/2 (B) 2E
(C) E (D) E/4
Q10. 1
A uniform chain of mass ‘m’ and length is held on a horizontal frictionless table with fraction of
n
its length hanging over the edge of the table. The work done by an external force in slowly pulling
the chain up on the table is :
mg mg
(A) (B)
n 2n
mg mg
(C) (D)
n2 2n 2