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Define instantaneous speed.

Important Questions on Measurements and Motion

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A car travels half distance with speed 20 m s-1 and next half distance travel with 30 m s-1 the average speed of the car is
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A boy covers a distance of 260 m in 20 s and another distance of 300 m in 20 s. The average speed of the boy is :
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A train moving in uniform  90 km hr-1 is approaching a flag station whose platform is 500 m long. The station master is standing at the centre of the platform. The train starts blowing the whistle when the engine is 1 km away from the near end of the platform and continues blowing the whistle till engine crosses of the platform without stopping. If the speed of the sound is assumed to be 300 ms-1, then the duration for which station master hears the whistle is?
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The ratio of average speed of a scooter moving at 300 m/min and a car moving at 27 km/hr is:
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The rate of change in distance is called
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An object travels 20 m in 5 s and then another 40 m in 5 s. What is the average speed of the object?
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If a body traverses a distance in direct proportion to the time, the speed of the body is _____.

(stationary, zero, changing, constant, displacement, velocity, speed, acceleration, stationary but not zero, increases)

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A stone is attached to a string 2 m long and whirled round in horizontal circle. It completes one rotation in one second. The angular velocity and linear speed of the stone is
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Which of the following is not vector quantity?
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An object is moving in a circle of radius 100 m with a constant speed of 31.4 m s-1. What is its average speed for one complete revolution?
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A bridge is 400 m long. A 150 m long train crosses the bridge at a speed of 50 m s-1. Time taken by the train to cross it is _____.
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A bus is travelling the first one-third distance at a speed of 10 km h-1, the next one-fourth at 20 km h-1 and the remaining at 40 km h-1. What is the average speed of the bus?
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Which of the following relations is correct?
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Which one of the following is not a vector quantity?
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A person takes time t to go once around a circular path of diameter 2R. The speed (v) of the person would be
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An object travels 18 m in 3 s and then another 30 m in 5 s. What is the average speed of the object?
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When two bodies moves uniformly towards each other, then they cross each other at the speed of 10 m s-1. If both the bodies move in the same direction, then they cross each other at the speed of 6 m s-1. The speed of both bodies are :
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A car travels a distance of 100 km in 2 hours.
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The moon is at a distance of 4×108 m from the earth. A radar signal is transmitted from the earth will reach the moon in about :
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Average speed is equal to total _____ upon time.