Subject: Physics test

Grade: 9th Topic: Motion

Max. Marks: 30 Time allotted: 60 min

1. Single correct multiple choice question

(I) A body whose speed is constant (1 mark)

(a) Must be accelerated (b) Might be accelerated
(c) Has a constant velocity (d) Cannot be accelerated.

(II) A object moves with uniform positive acceleration. Its velocity-time graph will be (1 mark)
(a) A straight line parallel to the time axis
(b) A straight line inclined at an obtuse angle to the time axis
(c) A straight line inclined at an acute angle to the time axis
(d) None of these.

2. State true/false (½ mark each)

a) Displacement cannot be zero
b) Average speed= Total distance/time
c) It is possible to have Object moving with uniform speed but variable acceleration.
d) It is possible to have Object moving with uniform velocity but non-uniform acceleration,

3. Fill in the blanks (½ mark for every blank correctly filled)

(a) A car starts at rest and travel a distance 20 m in 1 sec .The car average speed is ……………..
(b) Motion of earth around sun is an example of …………. motion.
(c) The motion of a free falling body is an example of ………………….. motion
(d) The curved speed time graph represent …………………accelerated motion
(e) Distance is a …………… quantity while displacement is a ………………… quantity

4. Figure shows distance time graph of three objects A ,B and C

(a) how do you find the speed of objects by looking at their
Distance- time graphs? (1 mark)
(b) which object is moving with a greatest speed ( ½ mark)
(c) which object is moving with slowest speed ( ½ mark)

5. Alex moves 4m due east and then 3m due north.

(a)What is the distance covered by the Alex?(1 mark)
(b)What is his displacement? (1 mark)
6. a) Write the difference between Distance and displacement (2 mark)
b) Write the difference between Uniform and Non uniform Motion (2 mark)

7. A big truck moving along a straight line at a speed of 54km/hr stop in 5s after the breaks are
applied.
(a) Find the acceleration, assuming it to constant. (2 mark)
(b)Plot the graph of speed versus time. (1 mark)
(c) Using the graph. Find the distance covered by the car after the brakes are applied? (2 mark)

8. (a) What is the quantity which is measured by the area occupied below the velocity time graph?
(1 mark)
(b) A train starting from rest attains a velocity of 72 km/h in 5 minutes. Assuming that the
acceleration is uniform, find out the (i) acceleration and (ii) the distance travelled by the train
for attending this velocity? (3 mark)

9. What does the odometer of an automobiles measure? Under what condition is the magnitude
of average velocity of an object equal to its average speed? (2 mark)

10. A particle starts from rest and moves with a uniform acceleration of 5m/s2 for 10s and then it
moves with a constant velocity for 4s. Later it slows down and comes to rest in 5s. Draw the
velocity graph for the motion of the body (1 mark) and answer the following questions:
a) What is the maximum velocity attended by the body? (1 mark)
b) What is the retardation of the body while slowing down? (1 mark)
c) What is the total distance travelled? (1 mark)