Practice MCQs For Speed, Velocity & Acceleration

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1. A car accelerates uniformly from $5 \text{ m s}^{-1}$ to $13 \text{ m s}^{-1}$ in 4.0 seconds. What is the acceleration of the car in $\text{m s}^{-2}$?

1.25

0.5

0.8

2.00

2. A car accelerates from $3 \, \text{m s}^{-1} $ to $10 \, \text{m s}^{-1} $ in 3 seconds. What is the distance traveled?

3 m

19.5 m

18 m

12 m

3. Acceleration is:

$\frac{\text{change in distance}}{\text{time taken}}$

$\frac{\text{velocity}}{\text{time}}$

$\frac{\text{change in velocity}}{\text{time taken}}$

$\frac{\text{change in speed}}{\text{time taken}}$

4. 2 balls are being dropped from different heights. Ball A takes twice the time ball B takes to reach the ground. Which of the following statements is correct?

Distance traveled by Ball A is twice that of Ball B.

Distance traveled by Ball A is 4 times that of Ball B.

Distance traveled by Ball A is equal to that of Ball B.

Distance traveled by Ball A is half that of Ball B.

5. A ball, located an at initial height h, is thrown downwards. The ball has an initial velocity of $10 \, \text{m s}^{-1} $ downwards and takes three seconds to reach the ground. What is the initial height, h? $ \left( g = 10 \, \text{m s}^{-2} \right)$

65 m

75 m

55 m

45 m

6. A car accelerates from $3 \, \text{m s}^{-1} $ to $15 \, \text{m s}^{-1} $ in 6 seconds. What is it's acceleration.

$3 \, \text{m s}^{-2} $

$2 \, \text{m s}^{-2} $

$5 \, \text{m s}^{-2} $

$0 \, \text{m s}^{-2} $

7. A ball is thrown downwards at a velocity of 8 m/s and bounces upwards. Which of the following is its velocity-time graph?

[Assume no air resistance or energy lost and take downwards motion as positive direction]

 

4) None of the above

 

3)

2)

4)

1)

8. An object is falling under gravity with terminal velocity.

What is happening to its speed?

It is increasing.

It is decreasing to a lower value.

It is decreasing to zero.

It is staying constant.

9. The graph below shows the movement of a car over a period of 50 seconds.

What was the distance travelled by the car during the time when it was moving at a steady speed?

400 m

200 m

100 m

10 m

10. A car travels at a constant speed of $5 \, \text{m s}^{-1} $ for 2 seconds, then accelerates at a rate of $4 \, \text{m s}^{-2} $ for 3 seconds. What is the total distance traveled by the car?

61 m

43 m

28 m

46 m

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