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Physics - Laws of Motion

Practise 19 KVPY previous year questions on Laws of Motion, compiled from papers spanning 2010 to 2020. Each question is pulled directly from the actual exam paper it appeared in, so you're practising in the exact style and difficulty KVPY tests.

  1. 1Meena applies the front brakes while riding on her bicycle along a flat road. The force that slows her bicycle is provided by the2020 (SB/SX)
  2. 2In an hour-glass approximately 100 grains of sand fall per second (starting from rest); and it takes 2 s for each sand particle to reach the2019 (SA)
  3. 3A plank is moving in a horizontal direction with a constant acceleration a i ^ . A uniform rough cubical block of side l rests on the plank 2018 (SB/SX)
  4. 4Two balls of mass M and 2 M are thrown horizontally with the same initial velocity v 0 from top of a tall tower and experience a drag force 2018 (SB/SX)
  5. 5An arrangement of spring, strings, pulley and masses is shown in the figure below. The pulley and the strings are massless and M > m . The s2018 (SB/SX)
  6. 6The graph below shows the variation of a force F with time t on a body which is moving in a straight line. Dependence of force on time is F 2018 (SB/SX)
  7. 7A rope of mass is hanging between two supports as shown. The tension at the lowest point of the rope is close to take )19 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  8. 8A uniform rope of total length is at rest on a table with fraction of its length hanging (see figure). If the coefficient of friction betwee19 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  9. 9Four identical beakers contain same amount of water as shown below. Beaker 'a' contains only water. A lead ball is held submerged in the bea19 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  10. 10On a pulley of mass M hangs a rope with two masses and tied at the ends as shown in the figure. The pulley rotates without any friction, whe05 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  11. 11In an experiment, mass of an object is measured by applying a known force on it, and then measuring its acceleration. IF, in the experiment,2015 (SA)
  12. 12A box, when hung from a spring balance shows a reading of . If the same box is hung from the same spring balance inside an evacuated chamber2014 (SA)
  13. 13Consider the system shown below A horizontal force is applied to a block of mass such that the block of mass adjacent to it does not slip do2014 (SB/SX)
  14. 14Two blocks ( 1 and 2) of equal mass are connected by an ideal string (see figure shown) over a frictionless pulley. The blocks are attached 2012 (SB/SX)
  15. 15A small child tries to moves a large rubber toy placed on the ground. The toy does not move but gets deformed under her pushing force which 2011 (SA)
  16. 16On a horizontal frictionless frozen lake, a girl (36 kg) and a box (9 kg) are connected to each other by means of a rope. Initially they are2011 (SA)
  17. 17Two plates each of the mass are connected by a massless spring as shown. A weight is put on the upper plate which compresses the spring furt2011 (SB/SX)
  18. 18A pen of mass ' is lying on a piece of paper of mass placed on a rough table. If the coefficient of friction between the pen and paper, and,2010 (SB/SX)
  19. 19A bead of mass is attached to the mid-point of a taut, weightless string of length and placed on a frictionless horizontal table. Under a sm2010 (SB/SX)

Frequently Asked Questions

1.How many questions are available for Laws of Motion?

This chapter includes 19 questions compiled from KVPY papers spanning 2010 to 2020.

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

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

3.Is Laws of Motion an important chapter for KVPY Physics?

Laws of Motion has appeared in 9 of the 11 years of KVPY papers covered here, with 19 questions across 12 papers - about 2 per paper it appears in.