TS EAMCET Motion in a Straight Line — practice questions
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Practice TS EAMCET Motion in a Straight Line in the app →The SI unit of acceleration is:For an object moving with uniform velocity, the velocity-time graph is:A car starting from rest accelerates uniformly at $2$ m/s². The distance covered in $5$ seconds is:Motion of an object along a straight line is also called what?Which branch of mechanics describes motion without asking what causes it?When can a moving object be treated as a point object?A velocity of -24.0 m/s has what speed?Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity with respect to which quantity?The acceleration at an instant is the slope of the tangent to which curve?The area under a velocity-time curve between two instants gives the object's what?For uniform acceleration, the position-time plot has which shape?For uniform motion, the velocity-time plot is a straight line that isWhich equation connects final velocity, initial velocity, acceleration and time?Which equation relates v, v0, a and displacement x without time?A car starts from rest with a = 2 m/s^2. How far does it go in 5 s?A body moving at 10 m/s decelerates at 2 m/s^2. After how long does it stop?A scooter at 20 m/s brakes with deceleration 5 m/s^2. Find its stopping distance.How does stopping distance change if the initial velocity doubles, with the same deceleration?Stopping distance of a vehicle is proportional to which quantity?If air resistance is neglected, an object falling near the Earth's surface is said to be in what?What value of g is taken as constant for small falls near Earth's surface in this chapter?Free fall near the ground is a case of what kind of motion?A stone is dropped from rest. Taking g = 10 m/s^2, what is its speed after 3 s?A stone dropped from rest falls for 3 s with g = 10 m/s^2. How far does it fall?A ball is dropped from a height of 80 m. With g = 10 m/s^2, how long does it take to land?Distances covered in successive equal time intervals by a body falling from rest are in what ratio?Who first made quantitative studies of free fall and gave the law of odd numbers?A ball thrown straight up at 20 m/s rises how high? Take g = 10 m/s^2.A ball is thrown up at 20 m/s with g = 10 m/s^2. How long does it take to reach its highest point?A ball thrown up at 20 m/s returns to the thrower's hand after how long? Take g = 10 m/s^2.A particle thrown upward is momentarily at rest at the top. Its acceleration there isDoes zero velocity at an instant necessarily mean zero acceleration at that instant?A particle is speeding up. Acceleration then pointsTaking upward as positive, the acceleration of a falling stone isThe sign of an acceleration depends mainly on what?A position is given by x = 3t^2 (x in m, t in s). What is the velocity at t = 2 s?If x = 4t + t^2 (SI units), what is the velocity at t = 3 s?For x = 5t^3, the acceleration at t = 1 s isA body has x = 8.5 + 2.5t^2 (SI). What is its velocity at t = 2.0 s?For x = 8.5 + 2.5t^2 (SI), what is the average velocity between t = 2 s and t = 4 s?A car goes from 0 to 30 m/s in 6 s at constant acceleration. Find the acceleration.A body starting from rest reaches 20 m/s in a distance of 50 m. Its acceleration isA runner goes 100 m east and then returns to the start. What is the net displacement?A walker goes 8 m east, then 6 m west. What are the distance and displacement?A body moves at 5 m/s for 4 s. What is the area under its v-t plot, and what does it mean?A v-t plot is a straight line from 0 to 10 m/s over 4 s. The displacement isA train at 90 km/h is moving at how many metres per second?On a position-time plot, a steeper straight line means what?The position-time plot of a uniformly moving object isThe velocity of a uniformly moving object at any instant equals what?A ruler dropped through your fingers is caught after falling 21.0 cm. Roughly what is the reaction time?In the ruler-drop test, the distance fallen by the ruler tells us what?The average velocity for constant acceleration equals what?A car moves at 40 km/h for half the time and 60 km/h for the other half. Average speed isA body has x = 2t + 3 (SI). What is its acceleration?Going up and coming down through one point, a ball's speeds areWhat does 'rate of change of position with respect to time' define?Neglecting air resistance, a body falling near Earth has acceleration aboutOver a given interval, average speed compared with magnitude of average velocity isA ball thrown vertically up is at its highest point. Its acceleration there isThe kinematic equations v = v0 + at and others hold only whenGalileo concluded that for freely falling bodies, what stays constant?A car's initial speed is doubled. Its braking distance becomesA car at 20 m/s brakes at 4 m/s². Distance covered before stopping isFrom rest with a = 3 m/s², the distance travelled in 4 s isA stone is thrown up at 30 m/s (g = 10 m/s²). Total time of flight isA man walks 40 m east in 20 s, then 40 m back in 20 s. His average velocity isA car covers half a distance at 40 km/h and the rest at 60 km/h. Average speed isA train runs at 72 km/h. Its speed in m/s isVelocity rises from 10 m/s to 30 m/s in 5 s. Average acceleration isA particle has x = 5t² (metres). Its velocity at t = 2 s isA car at 10 m/s stops uniformly in 5 s. Its retardation isTwo cars move the same way at 60 km/h and 40 km/h. Relative speed isA body falls freely from rest for 2 s (g = 9.8 m/s²). Distance fallen isWith upward taken positive, acceleration due to gravity is taken asA body goes 30 m right then 10 m left on a line. Its displacement isA body moves at a steady 6 m/s for 5 s. The displacement isVelocity grows uniformly from 0 to 10 m/s in 4 s. Displacement in that time isAverage acceleration is defined as change in velocity divided byBefore assigning signs in 1D motion, what must be chosen?Instantaneous velocity is the limit of average velocity as ΔtA body moves with constant velocity. Its acceleration isA car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly at 2 m/s^2 along a straight road. How far does it travel in tA bike moving at 20 m/s brakes with a uniform retardation of 4 m/s^2. How long does it take to stop?A train speeds up uniformly from 10 m/s to 30 m/s in 10 s. What is its acceleration?A scooter starts from rest and reaches 20 m/s with a uniform acceleration of 5 m/s^2. What distance does it coHow many of the five SUVAT variables does each constant-acceleration equation of motion contain?A cyclist moving at 10 m/s accelerates uniformly at 2 m/s^2 for 4 s. What is the final speed?Which kind of motion did Domingo de Soto in 1545 correctly identify with uniformly accelerated motion?