Three forces acting on a body are shown in the figure. To have the resultant force only along the y-direction, the magnitude of the minimum additional force needed is

• 0.5 N

• 1.5 N

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A shell of mass 200 g is ejected from a gun of mass 4 g by an explosion that generates 1.05 kJ of energy. The initial velocity of the shell is

• 100 ms^-1

• 80 ms^-1

• 40 ms^-1

• 40 ms^-1

Sand is being dropped on a conveyor belt at the rate of M kg/s. The force necessary to keep the belt moving with a constant velocity of v m/s will be

• Mv newton

• 2 Mv newton

• Mv/2 Newton

• Mv/2 Newton

A block B is pushed momentarily along a horizontal surface with an initial velocity v. if μ is the coefficient of sliding friction between B  and the surface, block B will come to rest after a time:

• v/gμ

• gμ/v

• g/v

• g/v

300 J of work is done in sliding a 2 kg block up an inclined plane of height 10 m. Taking =10 m/s², work done against friction is

• 200 J

• 100 J

• Zero

• Zero

A 0.5 kg ball moving with a speed of 12 m/s strikes a hard wall at an angle of 30° with the wall. It is reflected with the same speed and at the same angle. If the ball is in contact with the wall for 0.25 s, the average force acting on the wall is

• 48 N

• 24 N

• 12 N

• 12 N

The moment of inertia of a uniform circular disc of radius R and mass M about an axis touching the disc at its diameter and normal to the disc is

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A uniform rod of length l and mass m is free to rotate in a vertical plane about A. The rod initially in horizontal position is released. The initial angular acceleration of the rod is: (Moment of inertia of rod about A is )

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Two cars moving in opposite directions approach each other with speed of 22 m/s and 16.5 m/s respectively. The driver of the first car blows a horn having a frequency 400 Hz. The frequency heard by the driver of the second car is [velocity of sound 340 m/s]

• 350 Hz

• 311 Hz

• 411 Hz

• 411 Hz

An arrangement of three parallel straight wires placed perpendicular to plane of paper carrying same current ‘I’ along the same direction is shown in Fig. Magnitude of force per unit length on the middle wire ‘B’ is given by