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✓✗Assertion: The average speed of a body over a time interval can be greater than the magnitude of its average velocity.
Reason: Path length is always greater than or equal to the magnitude of displacement.
Reason: Path length is always greater than or equal to the magnitude of displacement.
- Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion
- Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
- Assertion is true but Reason is false
- Both Assertion and Reason are false
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✓✗A body moves along x with velocity v = 10 m/s for 3 s, then with v = −5 m/s for 4 s. From its velocity-time graph, the net displacement is
- 50 m
- 10 m
- 30 m
- 20 m
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✓✗Two cars move in the same direction with speeds 72 km/h and 54 km/h, 50 m apart. The faster car is behind. How long does it take to cover the gap and get 50 m ahead of the slower car?
- 40 s
- 10 s
- 5 s
- 20 s
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✓✗A motorist drives 20 km at 40 km/h and then a further 30 km at 60 km/h in the same direction. His average speed is
- 52 km/h
- 45 km/h
- 48 km/h
- 50 km/h
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✓✗In the previous question (A from rest at 2 m s−2, B at a constant 20 m/s), the maximum separation between the cars before A catches B is
- 400 m
- 50 m
- 200 m
- 100 m
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✓✗A particle has velocity \( v = 4 - 2t \) m/s. The distance it covers between t = 0 and t = 3 s is
- 6 m
- 4 m
- 3 m
- 5 m
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✓✗The SI unit of acceleration is
- m s−1
- m s−2
- m2 s−1
- m s2
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✓✗Two parallel rail tracks run north-south. Train A moves north at 54 km/h and train B moves south at 90 km/h. The velocity of B relative to A is
- 10 m/s north
- 40 m/s south
- 40 m/s north
- 10 m/s south
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✓✗For a body starting from rest with uniform acceleration, the position-time graph is
- a hyperbola
- a circle
- a straight line
- a parabola
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✓✗A particle is moving along the x-axis with its position (x) varying with time (t) as \( x = \alpha t^4 + \beta t^2 + \gamma t + \delta \). The ratio of its initial velocity to its initial acceleration, respectively, is
- 4α : β
- γ : 2β
- γ : 2δ
- 2α : δ
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✓✗Two cities X and Y are connected by a regular bus service with a bus leaving in either direction every T minutes. A girl driving a scooty at 60 km/h in the direction X to Y notices that a bus goes past her every 30 minutes in the direction of her motion, and every 10 minutes in the opposite direction. Choose the correct option for the period T of the bus service and the speed (assumed constant) of the buses.
- 10 min, 90 km/h
- 15 min, 120 km/h
- 9 min, 40 km/h
- 25 min, 100 km/h
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✓✗For the train of the previous question (2 m s−2 up, 4 m s−2 down, 30 s in all), the total distance covered is
- 1200 m
- 900 m
- 600 m
- 400 m
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✓✗For the ball thrown in the lift (lift moving up at 5 m/s, ball thrown at 10 m/s relative to the lift), the maximum height reached by the ball above its point of release, as seen from the ground, is (take g = 10 m s−2)
- 7.5 m
- 20 m
- 11.25 m
- 5 m
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✓✗A car moving with a speed of 40 km/h can be stopped by applying brakes in at least 2 m. If the same car is moving with a speed of 80 km/h, what is the minimum stopping distance?
- 8 m
- 2 m
- 6 m
- 4 m
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✓✗A particle moves with a retardation proportional to its velocity, \( a = -kv \). Its velocity as a function of time, starting with v0, is
- \( v_0e^{kt} \)
- \( v_0 - kt \)
- \( \dfrac{v_0}{1 + kt} \)
- \( v_0e^{-kt} \)