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Physics - Motion In One Dimension

Practise 22 KVPY previous year questions on Motion In One Dimension, 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. 1A mouse jumps off from the 15 th floor of high-rise building and lands 12 m from the building. Assume that each floor is of 3 m height. The 2020 (SA)
  2. 2Three balls, A , B and C , are released and all reach the point X (shonw in the figure). Balls A and B are released from two identical struc2020 (SA)
  3. 3A particle of mass 2 / 3 kg with velocity v = - 15 m / s at t = - 2 s is acted upon by a force F = k - t 2 . Here, k = 8 N and = 2 N / s 2 .2019 (SB/SX)
  4. 4A box filled with water has a small hole on its side near the bottom. It is dropped from the top of a tower. As it falls, a camera attached 2018 (SA)
  5. 5If a ball is thrown at a velocity of 45 m / s in vertical upward direction, then what would be the velocity profile as function of height? (2018 (SA)
  6. 6A person goes from point to point covergin of the distance with speed , the next of the distance at and the last of the distance at . The av05 Nov, 2017 (SA)
  7. 7A student performs an experiment to determine the acceleration due to gravity . The student throws a steel ball up with initial velocity and05 Nov, 2017 (SA)
  8. 8A particle starts moving along a line from zero initial velocity and comes to rest after moving distance d. During its motion it had a const05 Nov, 2017 (SA)
  9. 9A rigid ball rolls without slipping on a surface shown below. Which one of the following is the most likely representation of the distance t2016 (SA)
  10. 10A stone thrown down with a seed takes a time to reach the ground, while another stone, thrown upwards from the same point with the same spee2016 (SA)
  11. 11An object at rest at the origin begins to move in the direction with a uniform acceleration of for and then it continues moving with a unifo2015 (SA)
  12. 12A small box resting on one edge of the table is struck in such a way that it slides off the other edge, away, after 2 seconds. The coefficie2015 (SB/SX)
  13. 13In the follwing displacement vs time graph, at which among the points , and is the object's speed increasing?2014 (SA)
  14. 14Two skaters and are skating towards each other. Skater throws a ball towards every such that it always leaves her hand with speed with respe2013 (SA)
  15. 15The accompanying graph of position versus time represents the motion of a particle. If and are both positive constants, the expression that 2013 (SA)
  16. 16A point particle of mass is moving along the -axis under a force described by the potential energy shown below. It is projected towards the 2013 (SB/SX)
  17. 17A boat crossing a river moves with a velocity relative to still water. The river is flowing with a velocity with respect to the bank. The an2012 (SA)
  18. 18A juggler tosses a ball up in the air with initial speed . At the instant it reaches its maximum height , he tosses up a second ball with th2011 (SA)
  19. 19A body of moves along the positive -axis under the influence of a varying force (in Newtons) as shown below. If the speed of the object at i2011 (SA)
  20. 20A girl standing at point on a beach wishes to reach a point in the sea as quickly as possible. She can run at on the beach and swim at in th2011 (SA)
  21. 21A particle moves in a plane along an elliptic path given by At point , the -component of velocity is . The y-component of acceleration at th2011 (SB/SX)
  22. 22A ball is dropped vertically from a height of onto a hard surface. If the ball rebounds from the surface with a fraction of the speed with w2010 (SB/SX)

Frequently Asked Questions

1.How many questions are available for Motion In One Dimension?

This chapter includes 22 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 Motion In One Dimension chapter. Questions from other exams like JEE Main or NTA Abhyas (JEE Main) are organised separately under their respective exam sections.

3.Is Motion In One Dimension an important chapter for KVPY Physics?

Motion In One Dimension has appeared in 11 of the 11 years of KVPY papers covered here, with 22 questions across 14 papers - about 2 per paper it appears in.