Collision & Variable Mass PYQs Set 2 (PDF)

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31. $A metal ball of mass 2 kg moving with speed of 36 km / h has a head on collision with a stationary ball of mass 3 kg . If after collision, both the balls move as a single mass, then the loss in K.E. due to collision is$ (1) $100 J$ (2) $140 J$ (3) $40 J$ (4) $60 J.$ 32. $A body of mass m_{1} moving with an unknown velocity of v_{1} i, undergoes a collinear collision with a body of mass m_{2} moving with a velocity v_{2} i . After collision, m_{1} and m_{2} move with velocities of v_{3} i and v_{4} i, respectively. If m_{2} = 0.5 m_{1} and v_{3} = 0.5 v_{1}, then v_{1} is:$ (1) $\frac{v _{4} - v _{2}}{2}$ (2) $v_{4} - v_{2}$ (3) $\frac{v _{4} - v _{2}}{4}$ (4) $v_{4} + v_{2}$ 33. $A billiard ball of mass M, moving with velocity v_{1} collides with another ball of the same mass but at rest. If the collision is elastic, the angle of divergence after the collision is$ (1) $0^{\circ}$ (2) $30^{\circ}$ (3) $90^{\circ}$ (4) $45^{\circ}$ 34. $Two identical balls A and B having velocities of 0.5 m / s and - 0.3 m / s respectively collide elastically in one-dimension. The velocities of B and A after the collision respectively will be [NEET 2016]$ (1) $- 0.5 m / s and 0.3 m / s$ (2) $0.5 m / s and - 0.3 m / s$ (3) $- 0.3 m / s and 0.5 m / s$ (4) $0.3 m / s and 0.5 m / s$ 35. $A block of mass 1.9 kg is at rest at the edge of a table, of height 1m. A bullet of mass 0.1 kg collides with the block and sticks to it. If the velocity of the bullet is 20 m / s in the horizontal direction just before the collision then the kinetic energy just before the combined system strikes the floor, is [Take g = 10 m / s^{2} . Assume there is no rotational motion and loss of energy after the collision is negligable.]$ (1) $19 J$ (2) $23 J$ (3) $20 J$ (4) $21 J$ 36. $A ball of mass 0.15 kg hits the wall with its initial speed of 12 m s^{- 1} and bounces back without changing its initial speed. If the force applied by the wall on the ball during the contact is 100 N. calculate the time duration of the contact of ball with the wall.$ (1) $0.018s$ (2) $0.036s$ (3) $0.009 s$ (4) $0.072 s$ 37. $A particle of mass ’ m^{’} is moving with speed 2 v and collides with a mass ’ 2 m^{’} moving with speed ’ v^{’} in the same direction. After collision, the first mass is stopped completely while the second one splits into two particles each of mass ’ m^{’}, which move at angle 45° with respect to the original direction. The speed of each of the moving particle will be:$ (1) $2 v$ (2) $22 v$ (3) $\frac{v}{( 2 2 )}$ (4) $\frac{v}{2}$ 38. $Two identical balls A and B having velocities of 0.5 m s^{- 1} and - 0.3 m s^{- 1} respectively collide elastically in one dimension. The velocities of B and A after the collision respectively will be (NEET‐II2016, 1994, 1991)$ (1) $- 0.5 m s^{- 1} and 0.3 m s^{- 1}$ (2) $0.5 m s^{- 1} and -0.3 m s^{- 1}$ (3) $-0.3 m s^{- 1} and 0.5 m s^{- 1}$ (4) $0.3 m s^{- 1} and 0.5 m s^{- 1}$ 39. $A body falls freely from a height ' h' on a fixed horizontal plane and rebounds. If 'e' is the coefficient of restitution, the total distance travelled before it comes to rest is$ (1) $h (\frac{1 + e ^{2}}{1 - e ^{2}})$ (2) $h (\frac{1 - e ^{2}}{1 + e ^{2}})$ (3) $\frac{h}{2} (\frac{1 - e ^{2}}{1 + e ^{2}})$ (4) $\frac{h}{2} (\frac{1 + e ^{2}}{1 - e ^{2}})$ 40. $A ball moving with velocity 2 m / s collides head on with another stationary ball of double the mass. If the coefficient of restitution is 0.5, then their velocities (in m / s) after collision will be$ (1) $0,1$ (2) $1,1$ (3) $1,0.5$ (4) $0,2$ 41. $A liquid of density ρ is coming out of a hose pipe of radius a with horizontal speed v and hits a mesh. 50 % of the liquid passes through the mesh unaffected. 25% loses all of its momentum and 25 % comes back with the same speed. The resultant pressure on the mesh will be:$ (1) $\frac{1}{4} ρ v^{2}$ (2) $\frac{3}{4} ρ v^{2}$ (3) $\frac{1}{2} ρ v^{2}$ (4) $ρ V^{2}$ 42. $A bouncing ball of mass 200 g falls from the height of 5 m on a horizontal ground. After every impact with the ground, the velocity of the ball decreases by \frac{1}{2} times. The total momentum, the ball imparts on to the ground after 3 impacts is (Let g = 10 m / s^{2})$ (1) $\frac{14}{4} kg m / s$ (2) $\frac{20}{6} kg m / s$ (3) $\frac{26}{12} kg m / s$ (4) $\frac{21}{4} kg m / s$ 43. $A metal ball of mass 2 kg moving with a velocity of 36 km / h has a head on collision with a stationary ball of mass 3 kg . After the collision, if both balls move together, then the loss in kinetic energy due to collision is$ (1) $40 J$ (2) $60 J$ (3) $100 J$ (4) $140 J$ 44. $Two particles of equal mass m have respective initial velocities u i^and u (\frac{i + j}{2}) . They collide completely inelastically. The energy lost in the process is:$ (1) $\frac{m v ^{2}}{8}$ (2) $\frac{5 m v ^{2}}{8}$ (3) $\frac{m v ^{2}}{4}$ (4) $\frac{3 v m ^{2}}{8}$ 45. $100 balls each of mass m moving with speed v simultaneously strike a wall normally and reflected back with same speed, in time t s. The total force exerted by the balls on the wall is$ (1) $\frac{100 m v}{t}$ (2) $\frac{200 m v}{t}$ (3) $200 mvt$ (4) $\frac{m v}{100 t}$ 46. $A block of mass 4 m traveling at a velocity v_{1} in x -direction on a frictionless horizontal plane make a head-on collision with another block of mass 2 m travelling in opposite direction with a velocity v_{2} . After collision, both the blocks travel as a single block along x -direction with a final velocity 5 v_{2} . The ratio of velocity \frac{v _{1}}{v _{2}} is$ (1) $2$ (2) $3$ (3) $5$ (4) $8$ 47. $Two blocks of masses 10 kg and 30 kg are placed on the same straight line with coordinates (0, 0) cm and (x, 0) cm respectively. The block of 10 kg is moved on the same line through a distance of 6 cm towards the other block. The distance through which the block of 30 kg must be moved to keep the position of center of mass of the system unchanged is:$ (1) $4 cm towards the 10 kg block$ (2) $2 cm away from the 10 kg block$ (3) $2 cm towards the 10 kg block$ (4) $4 cm away from the 10 kg block$ 48. $Two small particles of equal masses start moving in opposite directions from a point A in a horizontal circular orbit. Their tangential velocities are v and 2v, respectively, as shown in the figure. Between collisions, the particles move with constant speeds. After making how many elastic collisions, other than that at A, these two particles will again reach the point A?$ (1) $4$ (2) $3$ (3) $2$ (4) $1$ 49. $A tennis ball is dropped on a horizontal smooth surface. It bounces back to its original position after hitting the surface. The force on the ball during the collision is proportional to the length of compression of the ball. Which one of the following sketches describes the variation of its kinetic energy K with time t most appropriately? The figures are only illustrative and not to the scale.$ (1) (2) (3) (4) 50. $A circular hole of radius (\frac{a}{2}) is cut out of a circular disc of radius 'a' shown in figure. The centroid of the remaining circular portion with respect to point O^{’} will be:$ (1) $\frac{10}{11} a$ (2) $\frac{2}{3} a$ (3) $\frac{1}{6} a$ (4) $\frac{5}{6} a$ 51. $Three-point particles of masses 1.0 kg, 1.5 kg and 2.5 kg are placed at three corners of a right-angle triangle of sides 4.0 cm, 3.0 cm and 5.0 cm as shown in the figure. The center of mass of the system is at a point:$ (1) $0.6 cm to the right and 2 cm above 1 kg mass$ (2) $0.9 cm to the right and 2 cm above 1 kg mass$ (3) $0.9 cm to the left and 2 cm above 1 kg mass$ (4) $0.9 cmto the right and 1.5 cm above 1 kg mass$ 52. $Two particles P and Q each of mass 3 m lie at rest on the X -axis at points (- a, 0) and (+ a, 0), respectively. A third particle R of mass 2 m initially at the origin moves towards the particle Q . If all the collisions of the system of 3 particles are elastic and head on, the total number of collisions in the system is$ (1) $2$ (2) $3$ (3) $4$ (4) $5$ 53. $Find the coordinates of centre of mass of the lamina, shown in figure.$ (1) $0.75, 1.75$ (2) $0.75, 1.5$ (3) $0.5, 1.75$ (4) $0.5, 1.5$ 54. $An object of mass m_{1} collides with another object of mass m_{2} which is at rest. After the collision the objects move with equal speeds in opposite direction. The ratio of the masses m_{2} : m_{1} is:$ (1) $3:1$ (2) $2:1$ (3) $1:2$ (4) $1:1$ 55. $A uniform rectangular thin sheet ABCD of mass M has length a and breadth b, as shown in the figure. If the shaded portion HBGO is cut off, the coordinates of the centre of mass of the remaining portion will be:$ (1) $(\frac{3 a}{4}, \frac{3 b}{4})$ (2) $(\frac{5 a}{3}, \frac{5 b}{3})$ (3) $(\frac{2 a}{3}, \frac{2 b}{3})$ (4) $(\frac{5 a}{12}, \frac{5 b}{12})$ 56. $An L-shaped object, made of thin rods of uniform mass density, is suspended with a string as shown in figure. If AB = BC, and the angle made by AB with downward vertical is θ, then:$ (1) $tan θ = \frac{1}{2 3}$ (2) $tan θ = \frac{1}{2}$ (3) $tan θ = \frac{2}{3}$ (4) $tan θ = \frac{1}{3}$ 57. $A particle of mass m with an initial velocity ui collides perfectly elastically with a mass 3m at rest. It moves with a velocity v ı ˋ after collision, then, v is given by$ (1) $v = \frac{1}{6} u$ (2) $v = \frac{u}{3}$ (3) $v = \frac{2}{3} u$ (4) $v = \frac{u}{2}$ 58. $A large block of wood of mass M=5.99 kg is hanging from two long massless cords. A bullet of mass m = 10 g is fired into the block and gets embedded in it. The (block + bullet) then swing upwards, their Centre of mass rising a vertical distance h = 9.8 cm before the (block + bullet) pendulum comes momentarily to restate the end of its arc. The speed of the bullet just before collision is:(Take: g = 9.8 ms^{- 2})$ (1) $841.4 m/s$ (2) $811.4 m/s$ (3) $831.4 m/s$ (4) $821.4 m/s$ 59. $A particle of mass m is projected from the ground with an initial speed u_{0} at an angle α with the horizontal. At the highest point of its trajectory, it makes a completely inelastic collision with another identical particle, which was thrown vertically upward from the ground with the same initial speed u_{0} . The angle that the composite system makes with the horizontal immediately after the collision is :$ (1) $\frac{π}{4}$ (2) $\frac{π}{4} + a$ (3) $\frac{π}{4} - a$ (4) $\frac{π}{4} + \frac{a}{2}$ 60. $On a frictionless surface, a block of mass M moving at speed v collides elastically with another block of same mass M which is initially at rest. After collision, the first block moves at an angle θ to its initial direction and has a speed v /3 . The second block's speed after the collision is$ (1) $\frac{2 2}{3} v$ (2) $\frac{3}{4} v$ (3) $\frac{3}{2} v$ (4) $\frac{3}{2} v$