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Physics - Motion In Two Dimensions

Practise 127 JEE Main previous year questions on Motion In Two Dimensions, compiled from papers spanning 2003 to 2026. Each question is pulled directly from the actual exam paper it appeared in, so you're practising in the exact style and difficulty JEE Main tests.

Motion In Two Dimensions has been asked in 18 of the 25 years of JEE Main papers analysed (2002–2026), with 127 questions in all. 39% of them were easy, 50% moderate and 12% tough. Most of its questions came from 2023, with 24 questions that year. In the last three years (2024–2026) it had 24 questions across 49 papers, about 0.5 per paper.

The chapter's 3 topics are not weighted equally: Projectile motion (85 questions, 67%), Uniform Circular Motion (26 questions, 20%), and Relative motion (16 questions, 13%) have been asked the most. Projectile motion has also led over the last five years, with 51 questions. Projectile motion has produced the most tough questions (11).

  1. 1A car moving with a speed of km/h takes a turn of radius m. A simple pendulum is suspended from the ceiling of the car. Determine the angle 08 Apr, 2026 (E)Uniform Circular Motion
  2. 2Two identical bodies, projected with the same speed at two different angles cover the same horizontal range . If the time of flight of these08 Apr, 2026 (E)Projectile motion
  3. 3Two projectiles are projected with the same initial velocities at the and with respect to the horizontal. The ratio of their ranges is . The04 Apr, 2026 (M)Projectile motion
  4. 4If and coordinates of a projectile as a function of time are given as and , respectively, then the angle (in degrees) made by the projectile04 Apr, 2026 (E)Projectile motion
  5. 5A gun mounted on the ground fires bullets in all directions with same speed. The farthest distance the bullets could reach is m. The speed o04 Apr, 2026 (E)Projectile motion
  6. 6A boy throws a ball into air at from the horizontal to land it on a roof of a building of height . If the ball attains maximum height in 2 s24 Jan, 2026 (M)Projectile motion
  7. 7An object is projected with kinetic energy from a point at an angle with the horizontal. The ratio of the difference in kinetic energies at 23 Jan, 2026 (M)Projectile motion
  8. 8A projectile is thrown upward at an angle with the horizontal. The speed of the projectile is when its direction of motion is with the horiz22 Jan, 2026 (M)Projectile motion
  9. 9A river of width 200 m is flowing from west to east with a speed of . A boat, moving with speed of in still water, is made to travel one-rou21 Jan, 2026 (E)Relative motion
  10. 10Two balls with same mass and initial velocity, are projected at different angles in such a way that maximum height reached by first ball is 08 Apr, 2025 (E)Projectile motion
  11. 11Two projectiles are fired from ground with same initial speeds from same point at angles and with horizontal direction. The ratio of their t07 Apr, 2025 (M)Projectile motion
  12. 12The angle of projection of a particle is measured from the vertical axis as and the maximum height reached by the particle is . Here as func03 Apr, 2025 (M)Projectile motion
  13. 13A particle is projected with velocity so that its horizontal range is three times the maximum height attained by it. The horizontal range of03 Apr, 2025 (E)Projectile motion
  14. 14A river is flowing from west to east direction with speed of . If a boat capable of moving at a maximum speed of in still water, crosses the02 Apr, 2025 (M)Relative motion
  15. 15Two projectiles are fired with same initial speed from same point on ground at angles of \( (45^{ }- )\) and \( (45^{ }+ )\), respectively, 29 Jan, 2025 (M)Projectile motion
  16. 16The position vector of a moving body at any instant of time is given as . The magnitude and direction of velocity at is,24 Jan, 2025 (E)Relative motion
  17. 17A particle is projected at an angle of from horizontal at a speed of . The height traversed by the particle in the first second is and heigh22 Jan, 2025 (M)Projectile motion
  18. 18A ball of mass 100 g is projected with velocity at with horizontal. The decrease in kinetic energy of the ball during the motion from point 22 Jan, 2025 (E)Projectile motion
  19. 19The angle of projection for a projectile to have same horizontal range and maximum height is :08 Apr, 2024 (E)Projectile motion
  20. 20A body of mass thrown horizontally with velocity from the top of the tower of height touches the ground at a distance of from the foot of th08 Apr, 2024 (E)Projectile motion
  21. 21A man carrying a monkey on his shoulder does cycling smoothly on a circular track of radius and completes 120 resolutions in 3 minutes. The 05 Apr, 2024 (E)Uniform Circular Motion
  22. 22The maximum height reached by a projectile is . If the initial velocity is halved, the new maximum height of the projectile is _____ .05 Apr, 2024 (E)Projectile motion
  23. 23The co-ordinates of a particle moving in plane are given by : . The motion of the particle is :04 Apr, 2024 (M)Projectile motion
  24. 24A particle moving in a circle of radius R with uniform speed takes time T to complete one revolution. If this particle is projected with the01 Feb, 2024 (M)Projectile motion
  25. 25A body starts falling freely from height H hits an inclined plane in its path at height h . As a result of this perfectly elastic impact, th31 Jan, 2024 (M)Projectile motion
  26. 26A particle of mass m projected with a velocity u making an angle of 30 ° with the horizontal. The magnitude of angular momentum of the proje30 Jan, 2024 (M)Projectile motion
  27. 27Projectiles A and B are thrown at angles of 45 ° and 60 ° with vertical respectively from top of a 400 m high tower. If their times of fligh30 Jan, 2024 (E)Projectile motion
  28. 28If the radius of curvature of the path of two particles of same mass are in the ratio 3 : 4 , then in order to have constant centripetal for29 Jan, 2024 (M)Uniform Circular Motion
  29. 29A ball rolls off the top of a stairway with horizontal velocity u . The steps are 0 . 1 m high and 0 . 1 m wide. The minimum velocity u with29 Jan, 2024 (M)Projectile motion
  30. 30A disc is rolling without slipping on a surface. The radius of the disc is R . At t = 0 , the top most point on the disc is A as shown in fi13 Apr, 2023 (M)Uniform Circular Motion
  31. 31A vehicle of mass 200 kg is moving along a levelled curved road of radius 70 m with angular velocity of 0 . 2 rad s - 1 . The centripetal fo13 Apr, 2023 (E)Uniform Circular Motion
  32. 32A projectile fired at 30 to the ground is observed to be at same height at time 3 s and 5 s after projection, during its flight. The speed o11 Apr, 2023 (M)Projectile motion
  33. 33A projectile is projected at 30 from horizontal with initial velocity 40 m s - 1 . The velocity of the projectile at t = 2 s from the start 11 Apr, 2023 (E)Projectile motion
  34. 34The range of the projectile projected at an angle of 15 with horizontal is 50 m . If the projectile is projected with same velocity at an an10 Apr, 2023 (M)Projectile motion
  35. 35Two projectiles are projected at 30 and 60 with the horizontal with the same speed. The ratio of the maximum height attained by the two proj10 Apr, 2023 (E)Projectile motion
  36. 36Two projectiles A and B are thrown with initial velocities of 40 m s - 1 and 60 m s - 1 at angles 30 and 60 with the horizontal respectively08 Apr, 2023 (M)Projectile motion
  37. 37The trajectory of projectile, projected from the ground is given by y = x - x 2 20 . Where x and y are measured in meter. The maximum height08 Apr, 2023 (E)Projectile motion
  38. 38A particle is moving with constant speed in a circular path. When the particle turns by an angle 90 , the ratio of instantaneous velocity to06 Apr, 2023 (M)Uniform Circular Motion
  39. 39Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R . Assertion A : When a body is projecte06 Apr, 2023 (M)Projectile motion
  40. 40A child of mass 5 kg is going round a merry-go-round that makes 1 rotation in 3 . 14 s . The radius of the merry-go-round is 2 m . The centr06 Apr, 2023 (E)Uniform Circular Motion
  41. 41A child stands on the edge of the cliff 10 m above the ground and throws a stone horizontally with an initial speed of 5 m s 1 . Neglecting 01 Feb, 2023 (M)Projectile motion
  42. 42The initial speed of a projectile fired from ground is u . At the highest point during its motion, the speed of projectile is 3 2 u . The ti31 Jan, 2023 (M)Projectile motion
  43. 43The speed of a swimmer is 4 km h - 1 in still water. If the swimmer makes his strokes normal to the flow of river of width 1 km , he reaches31 Jan, 2023 (M)Relative motion
  44. 44A stone of mass 1 kg is tied to end of a massless string of length 1 m . If the breaking tension of the string is 400 N , then maximum linea31 Jan, 2023 (E)Uniform Circular Motion
  45. 45Two bodies are projected from ground with same speeds 40 m s - 1 at two different angles with respect to horizontal. The bodies were found t31 Jan, 2023 (E)Projectile motion
  46. 46A stone tied to 180 cm long string at its end is making 28 revolutions in horizontal circle in every minute. The magnitude of acceleration o30 Jan, 2023 (E)Uniform Circular Motion
  47. 47A stone is projected at angle 30 to the horizontal. The ratio of kinetic energy of the stone at point of projection to its kinetic energy at29 Jan, 2023 (M)Projectile motion
  48. 48An object moves at a constant speed along a circular path in a horizontal plane with centre at the origin. When the object is at x = + 2 m ,29 Jan, 2023 (E)Uniform Circular Motion
  49. 49A car is moving on a circular path of radius 600 m such that the magnitudes of the tangential acceleration and centripetal acceleration are 29 Jan, 2023 (E)Uniform Circular Motion
  50. 50A particle of mass 100 g is projected at time t = 0 with a speed 20 m s 1 at an angle 45 to the horizontal as given in the figure. The magni29 Jan, 2023 (E)Projectile motion

Frequently Asked Questions

1.How many questions are available for Motion In Two Dimensions?

This chapter includes 127 questions compiled from JEE Main papers spanning 2003 to 2026.

2.Are these questions only from JEE Main, or from other exams too?

These are JEE Main questions specifically for the Motion In Two Dimensions chapter. Questions from other exams like NTA Abhyas (JEE Main) or JEE Advanced are organised separately under their respective exam sections.

3.Is Motion In Two Dimensions an important chapter for JEE Main Physics?

Motion In Two Dimensions has appeared in 18 of the 25 years of JEE Main papers covered here, with 127 questions across 99 papers - about one per paper it appears in.

4.What is the difficulty level of Motion In Two Dimensions questions in JEE Main?

Of the 127 questions analysed for this chapter, 39% are easy, 50% moderate and 12% tough. 2023 had the most, with 24 questions.

5.Which topics in Motion In Two Dimensions should I focus on?

These topics have carried the most weightage in Motion In Two Dimensions:

  • Projectile motion - 85 questions (67%)
  • Uniform Circular Motion - 26 questions (20%)
  • Relative motion - 16 questions (13%)
  • Projectile motion has produced the most tough questions (11).
6.Is Motion In Two Dimensions's weightage in JEE Main going up or down?

Across all 99 papers analysed, Motion In Two Dimensions has averaged about 1.3 questions per paper. In the last three years (2024–2026), that average has fallen, at about 0.5 questions per paper. Use the year-wise numbers on this page for the exact trend before you decide how much time to give it.