Exercise (Linear Motion)

1. A car begins to move from rest and accelerates with an acceleration of 12ms -2
for 10s. Calculate the distance travelled. (ans: 600m)
2. A car travels for 30 minutes and is brought to rest by application of its brakes.
The distance travelled before stopping is 9km. Calculate
a. Average velocity in the first 30 minutes. (ans: 18kmh -1)
b. initial velocity of the car. (ans: 60kmh -1)
c. deceleration of the car. (ans: -72kmh -2)
3. A car of mass 600kg accelerates from a position of rest with a uniform
acceleration of 25 ms-2. Calculate:
a. the velocity of the car at the time 10s. (ans: 250 ms -1)
b. displacement of the car in 18s. (ans: 4050m)
c. displacement of the car a t the 8th second. (ans: 187.5m)
The brake is applied at the 10th second and the car stops in 3 seconds.
Calculate:
d. deceleration of the car. (ans: -83.33 ms -2)
e. displacement of the car after the brake is applied. (ans: 375m)
f. work done by the brake to stop the car (tip: force= mass X displacement;
work= force X displacement) (ans: 18749250J)
4. A tennis ball is thrown vertically upwards at the velocity of 40 ms -1. Assume
that there is no air resistance. Calculate:
a. the maximum height that the ball can reach. (ans: 80m)
b. Calculate the time taken by the ball reach the floor again. (ans: 8s)
5. An object moves in a straight line PQ with uniform acceleration. The object
pass through check point P and Q with velocity 12 ms -1 and 25 ms-1 respectively.
What is the acceleration of the object if the distance between PQ is 40m? (ans: 5
ms-2)
6. A cyclist riding at speed 5 ms -1 braked with uniform deceleration and stopped
in 3m. How long did she take to stop? (ans: 1.2s)
7. Ali rides his bicycle starting from the rest and accelerates at uniform rate of
0.5 ms-2. What is the time taken to travel a distance of 100m. (ans: 20s)
8. a. What is velocity and acceleration?
b. A lift o its uoward journey starts from rest and accelerates for 5s until reaches
a speed of 2 ms-1. After this it moves at a constant speed for 10s and then
retards to rest after another 5s. For its downward journey, it again start from rest
and accelerates for 10s until it reaches a speed of 3 ms -1. Then it retards to rest
after another 10s. Calculate:
i. its acceleration during the upward journey. (ans: 0.4 ms -2)
ii. its retardation during the downward journey. (ans: -0.3 ms -2)
iii. the height maximum reached by the lift. (ans: 30m)
9. A car accelerates at a uniform rate from 5 ms -1 to 30 ms-1 in 5s. Calculate:
a. the acceleration of the car. (ans: 5 ms -2)
b. the velocity of the car after accelerating uniformly for the first 2s. (ans: 15 ms 1
)
c. the distance travelled by the car in 5s. (ans: 87.5m)

10. A particle starts from rest and moves down an inclined plane. if the body
reaches a velocity of 2 ms-1 in 4s. Calculate:
a. the acceleration of the body. (ans: 0.5 ms -1)
b. the distance travelled by the particles in 4s. (ans: 4m)
11. Azmi rides a bicycle at a constant acceleration of 2 ms -2from rest and reaches
a velocity of 12 ms-1. calculate the distance travelled by Azmi. (ans: 36m)
12. A trolley starts from rest and accelerates uniformly over a distance of 2m. If
the final velocity after travelling 2m is 2 ms -1, what is the acceleration of the
trolley? (ans: 1 ms-2)
13. A stone is thrown vertically upwards at a velocity of 20 ms -1. If the
gravitational acceleration is 10 ms-2 and the air resistance is neglected.
Calculate:
a. the time it will take the stone to reach the maximum height. (ans: 2s)
b. the maximum height reach by the stone. (ans: 20m)
14. A stone is dropped from a tower 45m height. Calculate:
a. the time the stone taken to reach the ground. (ans: 3s)
b. Calculate the speed of the stone on reaching the ground. (30 ms -1)
15. A ball thrown upwards with the initial speed of 30 ms -1. Calculate:
a. the maximum height reach by the ball. (ans: 450m)
b. the time the ball takes to reach the ground. (ans: 6s)
c. the final speed when the ball reach the ground. (ans: 30 ms -1)
16. Wei bo is a basketball player. Her vertical leap is 0.75m. What is his take-off
speed? (ans: 3.87 ms-1)
17. After winning a game, a pitcher throw a ball vertically with a velocity of 30
ms-1. Calculate:
a. the time taken for the ball to reach maximum height. (ans: 3s)
b. the speed of the baseball when it returns to his hand. (ans: 30 ms -1)
c. How long the ball in the air before it returns to his hand. (ans: 6s)
18. A coconut takes 1.5 seconds to fall to ground. Calculate:
a. the speed when it strike the ground. (ans: 15 ms -1)
b. the height of the coconut tree. (ans: 11.3m)
19. A sport car accelerates from rest and travelled a distance of 90m in 6s. What
is the acceleration? (ans: 5 ms-2)
20. When a dart is blown from blowpipe of 1.2m length, its travelled at a speed
of 15 ms-1. What is the time the dart travelled in the barrel. (ans: 0.16s)
21. Daniel drives his car at constant velocity 20 ms -1. He steps his brake and
reduce the velocity to 10 ms-1 after travelling 30m. Calculate the deceleration
and the further distance travelled before stop.
(ans: a= -5 ms-2, s=10m)
22. Starting from rest, s sprinter reach his top speed in 3s. He run a distance of
24,m in 3s. What is his acceleration? (ans: 5.3 ms -2)

23. Salina is driving at velocity of 10 ms -1. Seeing a cow in front, she brakes to
stop her car. if the deceleration of her car is 2 ms -2. What is the distance covered
before her car stop. (ans: 25m)