TAKE HOME QUIZ: KINEMATICS PROJECTILE MOTION

Test ID: 170112

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1. A cricket ball is thrown with a velocity of 15 m/s at an angle of 30 with the horizontal. The time of flight of the ball will be (g = 10 m/s )
(a) 1.5 s (b) 2.5 s (c) 3.5 s (d) 4.5 s
2. If t1 be the time taken by a body to clear the top of a building and t2 be the time spent in air, then t2 : t1 will be
(a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 1 (c) 1 : 1 (d) 1 : 4
3. A stone is thrown at an angle to the horizontal reaches a maximum height h. The time of flight of the stone is
(a) (2h sin ) /g (b) 2 (2h sin ) /g (c) 2 (2h) /g (d) (2h) / g
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4. A bomb is fired from a cannon with a velocity of 1000 m/s making an angle of 30 with the horizontal. What is the time taken by the bomb
to reach the highest point
(a) 11 sec (b) 23 sec (c) 38 sec (d) 51 sec
5. Two bullets are fired with horizontal velocities of 50 m/s and 100 m/s from two guns at a height of 19.6 m. Which bullet will strike first
(a) First (b) Second (c) Simultaneously (d) None of these
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6. A hiker stands on the edge of a cliff 490 m above the ground and throws a stone horizontally with a speed of 15 ms . The time taken by the
stone to reach the ground is
(a) 10 s (b) 5 s (c) 12 s (d) 15 s
7. Galileos experiment showed that if two bodies of unequal masses are dropped from the same height, the time required by them to reach
the ground are equal. But if they are thrown vertically upwards with the same initial velocity, the ratio of the time required to reach the
ground is equal to
(a) The ratio of their masses (b) The inverse of the ratio of their masses
(c) One (d) The product of their masses

8. A particle is projected with a speed 2 gh so that it clears two walls of equal height h which are at a distance 2h from each other. The time
taken by the particle to pass between the two walls is
2h 2h h h
(a) (b) (c) 2 (d) 2
g g g g
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9. A projectile is thrown in the upward direction making an angle of 60 with the horizontal direction with a velocity of 147 ms . Then the
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time after which its inclination with the horizontal is 45 is
(a) 15 s (b) 10.98 s (c) 5.49 s (d) 2.745 s
10. A cannon ball is fired with a velocity v in a direction making an angle with the horizontal. At the highest point of its path it breaks into two
parts of equal masses. One of the parts retraces the initial path of the ball. The speed of the second part immediately after explosion in m/s
will be
3 3
(a) v cos (b) v cos (c) 2v cos (d) 3v cos
2 2
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11. From the top of a tower of height 40 m a ball is projected upwards with a speed of 20 m/s at an angle of elevation of 30 . Then the
ratio of the total time taken by the ball to hit the ground to its time of flight (time taken to come back to the same elevation) is (take
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g = 10 ms )
(a) 2 : 1 (b) 3 : 1 (c) 3 : 2 (d) 4 : 1
12. A projectile fired with initial velocity u at some angle , has a range R. If the initial velocity be doubled at the same angle of projection, then
the range will be
(a) 2R (b) R/2 (c) R (d) 4R
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13. The range of a particle when launched at an angle of 15 with the horizontal is 1.5 km. What is the range of the projectile when launched at
an angle of 45o to the horizontal
(a) 1.5 km (b) 3.0 km (c) 6.0 km (d) 0.75 km
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14. Three identical balls are thrown with same speed at angles of 15 , 45 and 75 with the horizontal respectively. The ratio of their distances
from the point of projection to the where they hit the ground will be
(a) 1 : 2 : 1 (b) 1 : 2 : 1 (c) 2: 4:3 (d) 1 : 2 : 3
15. Five balls A, B, C, D and E are projected with the same speed making angles of 10, 30, 45, 60, 80 respectively with the horizontal.
Which ball will strike the ground at the farthest point
(a) B (b) A (c) E (d) C
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16. An object is thrown along a direction inclined at an angle of 45 with the horizontal direction. The horizontal range of the particle is equal to
(a) Vertical height (b) Twice the vertical height
(c) Thrice the vertical height (d) Four times the vertical height

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 TAKE HOME QUIZ: KINEMATICS PROJECTILE MOTION
Test ID: 170112
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17. A projectile is thrown at an angle of 40 with the horizontal and its range is R1. Another projectile is thrown at an angle 40 with the vertical
and its range is R2. What is the relation between R1 and R2
(a) R1 = R2 (b) R1 = 2 R2 (c) R2 = 2 R1 (d) R1 = 4 R2/5
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18. It was calculated that a shell when fired from a gun with a certain velocity and at an angle of elevation of radians should strike a given
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target. In actual practice it was found that a hill just intervened in the trajectory. At what angle of elevation should the gun be fired to hit
the target
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(a) rad (b) rad (c) rad (d) rad
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19. Two particles are projected from the same point with the same speed at different angle 1 and 2 to the horizontal. They have the same
horizontal range. Their times of flight are t1 and t2 respectively. Then
o t1 tan 1 t1 t1
(a) 1 + 2 = 90 (b) (c) tan 2 (d) tan 1
t2 tan 2 t2 t2

20. A projectile thrown from a height of 10 m with velocity of 2 m/s , the projectile will fall, from the foot of projection, at distance (g
2
= 10 m/s )
(a) 1 m (b) 2 m (c) 3 m (d) 2 m
21. On throwing a ball from the top of a vertical tower with a horizontal velocity of 20 m/s, it hits the earth at a distance of 50 m from the foot
of the tower. If the ball is thrown with the same horizontal velocity from the top of another tower of height four times the height of first
tower, the ball will hit the earth at a distance of
(a) 50 m (b) 100 m (c) 200 m (d) 50 2 m
22. An aeroplane is flying horizontally with a velocity of 600 km/h and at a height of 1960m. When it is vertically at a point A on the ground, a
bomb is released from it. The bomb strikes the ground at point B. The distance AB is
(a) 1200 m (b) 0.33 m (c) 3.33 km (d) 33 km
23. A shell is fired vertically upwards with a velocity v1 from the deck of a ship travelling at a speed of v2. A person on the shore observes the
motion of the shell as parabola whose horizontal range is given by
2v12 v 2 2v1v 22 2v1v 2 2v12 v 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
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24. A boy standing on a long rail road car throws a ball straight upward. The car is moving on the horizontal road with an acceleration of 1 m/s
and the projection velocity in the vertical direction is 9.8 m/s. How far behind the boy will the ball fall on the car
(a) 1 m (b) 2 m (c) 4 m (d) 0.5 m
25. A projectile has a maximum range of 16 km. At the highest point of its motion, it explodes into two equal masses. One mass drops vertically
downwards the horizontal distance covered by the other mass from the time of explosion is
(a) 8 km (b) 16 km (c) 24 km (d) 32 km

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 TAKE HOME QUIZ: KINEMATICS PROJECTILE MOTION
Test ID: 170112
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