DPS MIS, DOHA- QATAR

Weekly Test - I (201112)

Class: XI
Subject: Physics

Date: 15 05 2011

Time allowed: 50 Mins.

Maximum Marks: 25

General instructions:
All questions are compulsory.
Marks are indicated against each question.
Please check this question paper contains 3 printed pages only.
Please check that this question paper contains 14 questions in
total.
1. A person jogs eight complete laps around a 500 m track in a total time
of 13 minutes. Calculate his average velocity in m/s.
2. What is the SI unit of (a) temperature (b) luminous intensity?

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3. Can an object have zero velocity and non-zero acceleration at the

same time? If yes give an example.
4. What are unit vectors?

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5. The following figure shows the position time graph of an object.

Draw the corresponding velocity time graph

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6. What is a null vector? Write down any two properties of null vectors.
7.

What do you mean by the term dimension of a physical quantity?

Check whether the following equation is dimensionally correct or not.
mv2=mgh
where the symbols have their usual meaning.

8.

Ali was driving south on a highway at 25 m/s in a snowstorm. When

he last stopped, he noticed that the snow was coming down vertically,
but it is passing the windows of the moving car at an angle of 30O to
the horizontal. Estimate the speed of snowflakes relative to the car
and relative to the ground. Given, cos30O = 0.86, sin30O= 0.5.

9.

A tourist takes a trip in a hot air balloon. The hot air balloon is
ascending at a velocity of 4 ms1. He accidentally drops his camera
over the side of the balloons basket; at a height of 20 m. Calculate
the velocity with which the camera hits the ground.

10. Explain the process of resolution of vectors in a plane.

11. Show that the magnitude of the resultant of two vectors A and B is

Where is the angle between the vectors A and B.

12. Write down any two differences between distance and displacement. 2
13. A car, travelling at constant velocity, passes a stationary motor cycle.
at a traffic light. As the car overtakes the motorcycle, the motorcycle
accelerates uniformly from rest for 10 s. The following displacementtime graph represents the motions of both vehicles from the traffic
light onwards.

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(a) Use the graph to find the magnitude of the constant velocity of
the car.
(b) Use the information from the graph to find the magnitude of
acceleration of the motorcycle for the first 10 seconds of its motion.
(c) Calculate how long it will take the motorcycle to catch up with the
car (point X on the time axis).

14. Derive the kinematic equations of motion by plotting velocity-time

graph for an object in uniformly accelerated motion.

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