Question:
When a carpet is beaten with a stick, dust comes out of it. Explain.
Answer:
Due to inertia of rest. When a carpet is beaten with a stick, dust particles tend to remain in inertia of rest and resist the change. Hence, the dust particles come out of the carpet.
Force and Laws of Motion
Q 1.
While driving on a highway, an insect strikes on the car windshield and splatters. Which experiences greater impact (force): an insect or the windshield?
Q 2.
Do action-reaction forces produce the same magnitude of acceleration ?
Q 3.
On what factor does inertia of a body depend ?
Q 4.
Fill in the blanks :
The study of motion of a body under the action of a force is called ______.
Q 5.
Using second law of motion, derive the relation between force and acceleration.
Q 6.
Are action-reaction forces simultaneous ?
Q 7.
Explain why a player lowers his hands while catching a cricket ball.
Q 8.
What is the unit of force in c.g.s system?
Q 9.
A TV set is lying on a table. The TV set experiences a gravitational force (pull) downwards (FW) by the Earth. It also experiences a force on it due to table in contact i.e. (FTable-TV) in upward direction. Do these forces form an action-reaction pair? Do these forces follow Newton's third Law of motion?
Q 10.
Can balanced forces change the shape and size of an object?
Q 11.
Can every force produce motion in every object?
Q 12.
In the above question, which body is damaged more ?
Q 13.
Can balanced forces change the shape and size of a body ?
Q 14.
The masses of two objects are 2 kg and 20 kg. Which has greater inertia ?
Q 15.
A car weighs 1500 kg.Its speed time graph is shown in Fig. Calculate the force required at the end of 5 seconds to bring the car to a stop within one second.
Q 16.
When a branch of a tree is shaken, some of the fruits may fall down.Why ?
Q 17.
It is difficult to balance our body when we accidentally slip on a peel of banana. Explain why?
Q 18.
What is the total momentum of a bullet and a gun before firing?
Q 19.
What acceleration is produced by a force of 5 N acting on a body of mass 20 kg ?
Q 20.
Fill in the blanks :
On what factor does the inertia of a body depends? ____________
Q 21.
A feather of mass 10 g is dropped from a height.It is found to fall down with a constant velocity.What is the net force acting on it ?
Q 22.
In the above question,which body undergoes greater change in momentum ?
Q 23.
A body of mass 25 kg has momentum of 125 kg m/s. What is the velocity of the body?
Q 24.
The following is the distance-time table of an object in motion:
| Time in seconds |
Distance in meters |
| 0 |
0 |
| 1 |
1 |
| 2 |
8 |
| 3 |
27 |
| 4 |
64 |
| 5 |
125 |
| 6 |
216 |
| 7 |
343 |
(a) What conclusion can you draw about the acceleration? Is it constant, increasing, decreasing, or zero?
(b) What do you infer about the forces acting on the object?
Q 25.
Fill in the blanks :
Newton's second law of motion states that the rate of change of ______ of a body is directly proportional to the force and takes place in the same direction as the ______.
Q 26.
Define 1 Newton force.
Q 27.
An object experiences a net zero external unbalanced force.Is it possible for the object to be travelling with a non-zero velocity ? If yes,state the conditions that must be placed on the magnitude and direction of the velocity.If no,provide a reason.
Q 28.
A bullet of mass 10 g travelling horizontally with a velocity of 150
strikes a block and comes to rest in 0.03 s. Calculate the distance of penetration of the bullet into the block.Also, calculate the magnitude of the force exerted by the wooden block on the bullet.
Q 29.
What are balanced forces ?
Q 30.
Explain what is meant by momentum of a body.Is it a scalar or a vector ? What are its units ?
Q 31.
State Newton’s first law of motion. Hence define force and inertia.
Q 32.
A truck starts from rest and rolls down a hill with a constant acceleration. It travels a distance of 400 m in 20 s. Find its acceleration. Find the force acting on it if its mass is 7 metric tonnes. (Hint: 1 metric tonne = 1000 kg.)
Q 33.
If action is always equal to the reaction, explain how a horse can pull a cart.
Q 34.
Two persons manage to push a motorcar of mass 1200 kg at a uniform velocity along a level road. The same motorcar can be pushed by three persons to produce an acceleration of 0.2m s-2. With what force does each person push the motorcar?
(Assume that all persons push the motorcar with the same muscular effort.)
Q 35.
What are unbalanced forces?
Q 36.
Name the principle on which a rocket works.
Q 37.
What is the SI unit of impulse.
Q 38.
Why mass is sometimes called coefficient of linear inertia?
Q 39.
Why is the person hurt less when he falls on a spongy surface?
Q 40.
Which would require a greater force : accelerating a 2 kg mass at 5
or a 4 kg mass at 2
?
Q 41.
Two objects of masses 100 g and 200 g are moving along the same line in the same direction with velocities of 2 m/s and 1 m/s,respectively.They collide and after the collision, the first object moves at a velocity of 1.67 m/s in the same direction.Determine the velocity of the second object
Q 42.
Can balanced forces move a body at rest ?
Q 43.
A ball is thrown vertically upwards. What is its momentum at the highest point ?
Q 44.
Establish relation between inertia and mass.
Q 45.
Give atleast four applications of Newton’s second law of motion.
Q 46.
State and deduce the principle of conservation of momentum.
Q 47.
Explain why some of the leaves may get detached from a tree if we vigorously shake its branch.
Q 48.
Define 1N (Newton).
Q 49.
Suppose a ball of mass m is thrown vertically upward with an initial speed v, its speed decreases continuously till it becomes zero. Thereafter, the ball begins to fall downward and attains the speed v again before striking the ground. It implies that the magnitude of initial and final momentums of the ball are same. Yet, it is not an example of conservation of momentum. Explain why ?
Q 50.
Two objects having their masses in ratio 3:5 are acted upon by two forces each on one object. The forces are in the ration of 5:3. Find the ratio in their accelerations.
