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Relative Velocity

11 previous year questions.

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Chapter Questions
11 MCQs

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PYQ 2021
medium
physics ID: jee-main

A swimmer wants to cross a river from point A to point B. Line AB makes an angle of 30 with the flow of river. Magnitude of velocity of the swimmer is same as that of the river. The angle with the line AB should be ________ , so that the swimmer reaches point B.

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PYQ 2022
medium
physics ID: jee-main
Consider a light ray travelling in air is incident into a medium of refractive index √2n The incident angle is twice that of refracting angle. Then, the angle of incidence will be:
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PYQ 2023
medium
physics ID: jee-main

A solid sphere of mass rolls without slipping on a plane surface Its kinetic energy is . The speed of the centre of mass of the sphere is ___ .

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PYQ 2023
easy
physics ID: jee-main
A uniform metallic wire carries a current , when battery is connected across it The mass of uniform metallic wire is , density is and resistivity is The length of wire is :
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PYQ 2023
medium
physics ID: jee-main
A bullet of 10 g leaves the barrel of gun with a velocity of 600 m/s. If the barrel of gun is 50 cm long and mass of gun is 3 kg, then value of impulse supplied to the gun will be :
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12 Ns
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3 Ns
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6 Ns
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36 Ns
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PYQ 2023
medium
physics ID: jee-main
A planet having mass and radius , where and are mass and radius of earth respectively, has escape velocity in km/s given by: (Given escape velocity on earth )
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67.2
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33.6
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16.8
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11.2
07
PYQ 2023
hard
physics ID: jee-main
A fish rising vertically upward with a uniform velocity of 8 ms-1, observes that a bird is diving vertically downward towards the fish with the velocity of 12 ms-1. If the refractive index of water is , then the actual velocity of the diving bird to pick the fish, will be _______ ms-1
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PYQ 2023
medium
physics ID: jee-main

A body of mass is moving with a velocity of . Its kinetic energy will be:

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(1000 ± 0.14) J
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(1000 ± 140) J
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(500 ± 0.14) J
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(500 ± 140) J
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PYQ 2023
medium
physics ID: jee-main
Two trains 'A' and 'B' of length and are travelling into a tunnel of length 'L' in parallel tracks from opposite directions with velocities 108 km/h and 72 km/h, respectively. If train 'A' takes 35s less time than train 'B' to cross the tunnel then. length 'L' of tunnel is:
(Given L = 60 )
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1800 m
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900 m
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1200 m
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2700 m
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PYQ 2025
medium
physics ID: jee-main
A river is flowing from west to east direction with speed of km/hr. If a boat capable of moving at a maximum speed of km/hr in still water, crosses the river in half a minute, while moving with maximum speed at an angle of to direction of river flow, then the width of the river is:
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300 m
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112.5 m
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75 m
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m
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PYQ 2026
easy
physics ID: jee-main
Consider an equilateral prism (refractive index ). A ray of light is incident on its one surface at a certain angle . If the emergent ray is found to graze along the other surface, then the angle of refraction at the incident surface is close to
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